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# Government programs promote common good
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/government-programs-promote-common-good-editor/
- Published: 2005-08-25T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:37:13.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Jeremy Wells Santa Monica*

Once again, the SMDP has published yet another two full column “guest commentary” rant from the Ayn Rand Institute (SMDP, Aug. 17, page 4).

To say that “Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable” typically reflects their perverted anti-humanistic capitalist philosophy. The attack on Social Security is all part of the larger scheme to privatize or destroy all government programs designed to promote the universal common good through progressive taxation. Capitalist privatization turns essential social programs into for-profit businesses that are then run to maximize profit for their owners. Access to these programs is then available only to those who can pay the profit-inflated price.

There are some 45,000,000 people who cannot afford privatized health insurance in the U.S. today, with estimates of 100,000 people a year dying as a result.

The homeless dying in the streets of Santa Monica are yet another example of the capitalist philosophy of Ayn Rand (and the Bush gang) run to its logical and barbaric conclusion.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 25, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/082505.pdf?ref=smdp.com)