Green Energy
"Going Galt" is a term that has recently gained currency. It, of course, refers to the hero of Atlas Shugged, John Galt. The term refers to the growing number of producers who are intentionally producing less for the Obama looters. These folks aren't moving to hidden enclaves or going on a complete strike. In the novel the country has reached such a point that moral men can no longer function. The book's heroes withdrawn from a society were human cooperation based on self-interest has be made illegal. The strikers believe that the source of all values, including economic ones, is the human mind. The thinkers simply stop innovating and creating new values. This is all that is necessary to causing the collapse of Obama's... oops... the looters' world in Atlas Shrugged.
Many people today are recognizing the similarities between the president/thug-in-chief in Atlas Shrugged and the current gang in Washington. One such person is United States Congressman John Campbell who represents Orange County, California:
"Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” told me today that the response to President Obama’s economic policies reminded him of what happened in the 51-year-old novel."
“People are starting to feel like we’re living through the scenario that happened in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’” said Campbell. “The achievers, the people who create all the things that benefit rest of us, are going on strike. I’m seeing, at a small level, a kind of protest from the people who create jobs, the people who create wealth, who are pulling back from their ambitions because they see how they’ll be punished for them.”
Crossposted at The Dougout
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Green Energy
Going Galt
"Going Galt" is a term that has recently gained currency. It, of course, refers to the hero of Atlas Shugged, John Galt. The term refers to the growing number of producers who are intentionally producing less for the Obama looters. These folks aren't moving to hidden enclaves or going on a complete strike. In the novel the country has reached such a point that moral men can no longer function. The book's heroes withdrawn from a society were human cooperation based on self-interest has be made illegal. The strikers believe that the source of all values, including economic ones, is the human mind. The thinkers simply stop innovating and creating new values. This is all that is necessary to causing the collapse of Obama's... oops... the looters' world in Atlas Shrugged.
Many people today are recognizing the similarities between the president/thug-in-chief in Atlas Shrugged and the current gang in Washington. One such person is United States Congressman John Campbell who represents Orange County, California:
Congressman: We're Living in 'Atlas Shrugged':
"Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” told me today that the response to President Obama’s economic policies reminded him of what happened in the 51-year-old novel."
“People are starting to feel like we’re living through the scenario that happened in ‘Atlas Shrugged,’” said Campbell. “The achievers, the people who create all the things that benefit rest of us, are going on strike. I’m seeing, at a small level, a kind of protest from the people who create jobs, the people who create wealth, who are pulling back from their ambitions because they see how they’ll be punished for them.”
Crossposted at The Dougout
- Jerry Della Femina, The “mad Men” Ad Man ..goes Galt!!!
WOW, JUST WOW!!!Forbes:Jerry Della Femina, the legendary advertizing visionary, restaurant owner, and alleged inspiration for the popular AMC television show, Mad Men, has shrugged. As he wrote recently in The Independent (East Hampton), in 2008 he “decided...
-
Cloward-Piven-Rand? If, as the old saw goes, politics makes strange bedfellows, what kind of bedfellows does the endeavor to restructure our entire society create? Very strange bedfellows -- very strange bedfellows, indeed. Regular visitors to American...
- The Economic Dictators
John Stossel on America's contemporary Wesley Mouch's: This month, The Atlantic carries a fairly chilling account of how former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bullied Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis into...
- Atlas Is Shrugging
Stephan Moore at The Wall Street Journal on how America has been living the plot of a fifty-year-old novel: Many of us who know Rand's work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme...
- Atlas Shrugs Interviews John Bolton
Fellow IBA blogger, Atlas Shrugs is at the AIPAC Convention this week, and she nabbed an interview with John Bolton, and did an excellent job in getting him to talk candidly. Amazing work, Atlas. I'm blown away. Here's an excerpt, but you'll...