Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

You really, really, really should read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.


"...If only "Atlas" were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster..."

"...For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism..."


Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
by Stephen Moore
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


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[ljstevens46]

The government is the problem, not the solution.

[thebestsumoeva]

@daleprechaungold Last I checked it was legally mandated that banks handout sub prime mortgages to help poor people get cheaper mortgages. They even went so far as to create an enterprise whose job it was to provide insurance for bad mortgages. Sounds to me like bad economic policy on behalf of the government, but luckily for the government they get to use tax payer money for public relations and can act like they had no idea what was going on.

[mrrobotica]

@ParaDiseTellEm Of course. Everything is caused by "those elites behind the scenes".

[ParaDiseTellEm]

What people don't get us that this woman did not predict a thing. She was ORDERED to write this book. The book is actually shows the step by step plan for bringing about the new world order. A plan that was in effect far before she had even written this. The Elite were not pleased that so many people got a hold of this. But, it doesn't matter to them now because people are still blind and they're going to do it anyway.

[timpinckney]

We need RON PAUL more than ever now to restore America. Millions of people have sacraficed so much to come to the US over the last several decades. Some even risked their lives. Economic FREEDOM is what caused this nation to thrive. NOT Large Government. Thanks for uploading.

[odalrich]

@Hiraghm Reaganomics worked for a while (so did Stalinist economics in the past) but in the long run it ruined the economy and caused today’s problems. It concentrated too much wealth in the hands of a few while reducing the purchasing power of the majority.

[Hiraghm]

@odalrich - I wish they had, because Reaganomics worked in the U.S.

Calling Bush a progressive is like calling Obama a progressive. They both think the government exists to control and manipulate the people.

[odalrich]

@Hiraghm The whole Western economies have been infected by “Reaganomics” with leftist or rightist parliaments, congresses or whatever you want to call them. I don’t know what you mean by “progressive” If it means what I think; calling Bush Jr a “progressive” is like calling Gadafi a champion for democracy.

[schmoborama]

@Hiraghm

"So we've gone from "the U.S. is NOT socialist" to..."

No, smartass. The U.S. is NOT a "Socialist" country but it does have some socialist-type policies... EVERY western country does. What did you think when I wrote "you might as well say that China is Captialist"?

"U.S. is far, far more socialist today than it was 100 years ago"

Yea GOOD. 100 years ago you'd get rat shit in your hamburger. Lots of it. And we've outlawed the blatant ripoffs by big business.

[Hiraghm]

@odalrich - depending on how you mean that, you're probably right; the system depicted in Atlas Shrugged was not based on objectivism or even conservatism, but on liberal socialism. And, in spite of Reagan's efforts to return us to a capitalist system (thwarted repeatedly by leftist Congresses... strange how the economy did so well in the mid-90s when moderate-conservatives controlled Congress...), we have continued on the progressive path (Bush Sr, Clinton, and Bush Jr all being progressives).

[Hiraghm]

@schmoborama - So we've gone from "the U.S. is NOT socialist" to "the U.S. is the least socialist". The U.S. is far, far more socialist today than it was 100 years ago. China is less socialist than it was 50 years ago. They're going in the right direction, we're going in the wrong one.

Actually, I would describe China as fascist, and the U.S. as increasingly fascist. But, then fascism is just another strain of the disease known as socialism.

[schmoborama]

@Hiraghm

Then you might as well say that China is a Captialist country, because it has *some* free trade, and private ownership.

The U.S. is one of the LEAST socialist countries on the PLANET.

I swear to god you people are so fucking STUPID.