My Review of Atlas Shrugged

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My personal review of Atlas Shrugged. Comments are welcome, although I do request that you be respectful.

Yes, I do realize I pronounced Rand's name wrong, I was unaware of the proper pronunciation at the time.

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[jpb252]

Nice review. Not that it has anything to do with the book, but I love the cat.

[db11289]

@WHIREAS GTFO TROLL! 

[WHIREAS]

I'm not sure why, but I absolutely despise you. I sincerely hope you lead a life of utter agony and despair.

[MrJohngalt2011]

Kelly - sounds like we are both very simular. We see the moochers for who they are and know the sloth that drives them. We abhor these individuals. We seek to reward those that fight and are producers even if they are still under state support. These are the ones we should help and the moochers should be left to wallow in the world they have wrought. In that, we both agree with Ayn Rand.

[MrJohngalt2011]

@KellyBellyAnn Partially. I see people all the time that could have been great but failed to try. Many are, to answer your question. some are not. The later should be scorned and shamed while the former should be helped.

[MrJohngalt2011]

@KellyBellyAnn I have pictures of receipts that show people using food stamp cards for such. I have seen this often at the supermarket. Those with the welfare debt cards eat better than I. Years ago it was actual stamps that were handed out. we need to go back to that. We have made our programs too cushy and too easy.

[MrJohngalt2011]

@KellyBellyAnn Sounds like you understand the viewpoint of people like Dagny and Hank in the book. You see the moochers and you know that giving them again their daily bread will just perpetuate that dependency cycle. Altruism for them is a trap, a well intentioned trap but a trap that they may never get out of. Our programs, and charities need to reward effort and not sloth.

[MrJohngalt2011]

@KellyBellyAnn Interesting. I would say that our views are not that dissimular. I assume you work with charities - do you find better outcomes with personal/corp charities vice governmental ones?

[MrJohngalt2011]

@KellyBellyAnn Profit is still a good motive. the firms profit is the profit of the shareholders, if public, and that of the workers through improved pay, benefits and resources. LBOs and other such organizations clean out the deadwood of an economy ensuring efficient use of capital and labor. By that we all receive more products at a cheaper cost. Take a look into the history of Standard Oil.

[MrJohngalt2011]

@KellyBellyAnn I am also on a national board of a charity that hands out about 2M per year in scholarships. over head for that organization is almost zero.