Having read their statement on taking the aid (https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/ https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/) their

Having read their statement on taking the aid (https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/ https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/) their argument boils down to: "we would be foolish not apply for and take a government handout and that it is OK for us to do so as we are pro-capitalists but bad for everyone else to do so." Rand's personal argument for this behavior and why she took government handouts including social security and medicare was: "Those who support such government handouts, have no right to them; those who oppose them have" I personally find the hypocrisy of this stunning.