I went Galt in ‘69.
It does no harm.
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Where is Atlantis? (I believe that is where the people who were going Galt moved too). It would be needed as an example for what life could be like without the over-burden of a Socialist government.
I would rather go Sarah. She is real and got rid of some corruption in Alaska!
I found a teapartynation.net.
Is that is? I don’t see an article about going Galt.
It was time in 2004...when all in congress lost their collective minds.
True going Galt is everyone going to prison for not paying taxes...
Taxed Enough Already!
Going Galt does not mean (to me) refusing to be a producer.
A better strategy is to channel your productive efforts into endeavors that tend to favor other “red state” type enterprises and individuals. Buy the reloading gear from an outfit in Idaho, not an outfit that imports Chinese via Long Beach. That’s just one small example of what I mean.
Work off the books for cash or barter as much as possible. Take “payment in kind” when you can. Read Tom Baugh’s “Starve the Monkey” for a million ideas about this version of “Going Galt.”
And if you can, “vote with your feet” and move your productive energy from a blue county and state, to deep red. For example, Make Texas the new shining beacon of economic freedom by taking your energy there. Starve the beast, but support people like you with your economic choices.
I’m checking out ... moving to Thailand asap ... work teaching English... start a small business... live cheaply ... marry a pretty woman...
“Going Galt is actually something the left would like. After all, the goal of Obama and the hard left is not simply to rule but to fundamentally change America. A crisis like that would give them the chance.”
The rule wouldn’t last. Those who control the weapons would eventually take over. That is, the progressive-statist regime would be replaced by a military dictatorship. The progressive-statist would be left shaking their heads trying to figure out why they couldn’t see that one coming.
At least that is what I think.
I understand how and why the meaning of “going Galt” has changed from it’s origins... It has devolved to something more in-line with “going on strike”. Why? because it’s simply not possible for us to just “disappear” to some unknown location where everybody there understands and lives by the principles of hard work and responsibility... leaving behind a society dependent upon those who have left.
While Ann Rand was truly before her time, she was not a Christian. She was Jewish.
Maybe she got the idea of “Going Galt” from the bible?
You know... where all of a sudden millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the earth resulting in utter chaos?
Maybe she was a Christian... I don’t know... but her solution to Society’s ills sure sounds a lot like a fictitious take on the rapture to me.
“Going Galt is actually something the left would like. After all, the goal of Obama and the hard left is not simply to rule but to fundamentally change America. A crisis like that would give them the chance.”
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Okay, let’s talk about reality, America changed “fundamentally” long before we ever heard of Obummer and company, had it not he would not be in the position he is in, he would be an unknown. What they want to do now is make us give up all pretense to the contrary and acknowledge that we have no rights any longer. Amazingly I still hear someone occasionally refer to the “great freedoms” that we supposedly still enjoy in America. It is like referring to the great flocks of Passenger Pigeons that used to darken the skies as if they still exist. No one is living now who remembers these great flocks, many would not recognize the name of the Passenger Pigeon and it appears that possibly one day no one will be left who remembers when we actually had some freedom.
Few ever pause to think that “free” is a superlative. If I offer to sell something that is worth ten thousand dollars for ten cents one may say that it is nearly free or “free for all practical purposes” etc. but strictly speaking it is not free if the price is only one cent even, as witnessed by the fact that anyone who lacks the penny may not partake. There are no degrees of freedom therefore, there are only degrees of price. Likewise when speaking of political or economic freedom, there are no degrees of freedom, there are only degrees of repression. There was a time in America when most of us were very nearly free and could call ourselves free without raising objections but any American who fancies himself to be a free man now lives in a foggy dream world with little connection to reality. I believe we still have quite a few who live in that fog and willfully refuse to go up out of the foggy valley to the hilltop and look at the real world unobscured.
Every day I wake up to an America in which all kinds of awful things which, “Can’t happen here, this is America!” happen every day.
“Going Galt: Surviving Economic Armageddon” http://www.futurnamics.com/goinggalt.php
I read the whole article. I must be out-of-touch with current events. I was under the impression that “Going Galt” meant that it was necessary to shoot thugs who try to rob you in subways. In other words, just start shooting to right the wrongs of society. Am I in error or just behind-the-times?
Done it. Retired, cashed in, and living on the nest egg so I don't to give any more to the IRS than I have to.
I likely speak for a lot of folks here but won’t assume it.I don’t have enough money to stop producing and hole up somewhere. When you hole up and assume you can sell your house first, take your $ with you, get off the grid, and abandon your extended family including your grandparents who may not be politically aligned with you and DO want to see their grandkids, it just becomes good talk and a good book and movie. Not to mention you’d leave your church family behind. If I stop producing, I stop eating.
The simplest way to go galt is to remove your money from the system so it won’t circulate. This can be done by withdrawing your money from the bank and into cash, and take it home. Banks leverage their deposits 10:1, so your actions have a leveraged effect. If you take $3000 out of your bank, that prevents them from making a car loan.
Just my thought. The Club could even form its own off-shore version of Galt's Gulch (Boquete, Panama comes to mind).