Galt's Gulch

Comparing ACA with Lord of the Rings

Posted by richkinley 10 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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Liberals love this joke comparing Atlas Shrugged and Lord of the Rings:

Punchline: LOTR has Orcs.

I grew rather tired of hearing it for the umpteenth time, so I responded with:

What's the difference between the Affordable Care Act and LOTR? Congressional Democrats have actually read LOTR.

It's been nothing but crickets since then.

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  • Posted by IIGeo2 10 years, 10 months ago
    4.2 Million lose their healthcare to date and this is considered a small percent of the whole and good for the nation? Now compare this with 1.3 million lose their Federal Unemployment check and we are panicking and crying foul? 1.3 million unemployed but we still have a Diversity visa? We still want to go forward with legalization? all I can sat is wow! Now in fairness we should consider the situation of the 4.2 and the 1.3 equally and deal with this long before we consider adding more unskilled labor and those who crossed our borders illegally
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 10 months ago
    Hm... okay so Gandalf would be Akston, Saruman would be Stadler...

    Or Maybe Elrond would be Akston?

    Aragorn would be Galt...
    Gandalf would be Francisco...
    Gimli would be Rearden...
    No... Gimli would be Ellis Wyatt :D
    Eowyn would be Dagney...

    Arwyn would be Lillian or Hank's mother (just because I don't like her in the movies).

    Faramir obviously was the wet nurse
    Eomer was Ragnar...

    Wyrmtongue would have been Wesley Mouch...

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    • Posted by richkinley 10 years, 10 months ago
      I give you a thumbs-up for making the attempt to match up characters...very imaginative.

      It is now my opinion that Atlas Shrugged is not suitable for most people under the age of 30. I believe there's greater understanding and appreciation for the novel when one has numerous life experiences as an adult.

      Pajama Boy certainly won't be able to grasp Atlas while drinking hot chocolate in his mom's basement.
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      • Posted by zwdavis4 10 years, 10 months ago
        I was 24 when I read Atlas Shrugged. I think it sank in pretty well despite my lacking in life experience. I was college educated working a blue collar job in the oil field so I felt I could relate to it just fine. I would like to think that I'll have my kids read it while they are in high school but I've often fantasized about reading it to them while they are young. I'd like them to have real heroes to look up to and imitate rather than the garbage the media feeds them.
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      • Posted by plusaf 10 years, 10 months ago
        "Atlas Shrugged is not suitable for most people under the age of 30"...

        Make that a bumper sticker and it will go on the back of my car asap... :)
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        • Posted by $ ernieg 10 years, 10 months ago
          After leaving the army in1959 and moving to Colorado I found Atlas Shrugged at age 20. I just added the centennial addition thru Amazon and enjoyed it again at age 73.
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 10 months ago
        Denethor would have been James Taggart or "the punk" Phillip Rearden...

        God, I SO wanted to kill Denethor; not just kill, but beat to death with a baseball bat... the actor did a wonderful job, cause I haven't hated a character that much in my memory. Not even Wesley Mouch or Dr Ferris...
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        • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago
          You seem a little on edge lately Hiraghm... everything okay?
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          • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 10 months ago
            Well, since Star Trek II is on TV atm, I'll couch my reply by paraphrasing a movie quote:
            http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/quot...

            "There's a man inside here I haven't seen in fifty years who's trying to kill me. The mirror shows me a son that'd be happy to help... my life that could have been... and wasn't.
            How do I feel?
            Old... worn out. "

            Cryptic? Yeah. But any less cryptic and they'd lock me away.

            Let's just say the holidays are rough and leave it at that.
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  • Posted by $ stargeezer 10 years, 10 months ago
    But the ACA is exactly what the members of the liberal party of this nation have sought for a century. A program whereby 300,000,000 people shall cease laboring to improve their lives and at the cost of their families future, that 300,000,000 will hand over their healthcare dollars to the 30,000,000 who will not labor to pay for their own.

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  • Posted by kantnow 10 years, 10 months ago
    Sad really how everyone got railroaded into the ACA. BUT, lo and behold a Free Market alternative that let's you 'opt out' is on the scene! You think the libertarians cats were really going to be herded into Obamacare? Really? Scope it out at www.healthshareliberty.com.
    Power to us.
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