What would Ayn Rand say about OWS?

Mon, 11/07/2011 - 2:10pm | posted by Jason Pye

Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, explains that Occupy Wall Street has a misguided focus. Instead of targeting the federal government for corporatist economic policies and cronyism, they’ve gone after higher income earners, many of whom have done nothing more than experienced success in their endeavors:

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