I swear Bawney has become a parody of himself.

BARNEY FRANK: What it is, is this. These are right-wingers who have this philosophy, going back to Ayn Rand, that says we should not come together to do things for the common good. That individualism is the answer, and that everybody should be on his or her own. So feeding poor children, cleaning up the atmosphere, putting out fires in older cities: those are things for which they would deny funding.

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