“Atlas” Has an Itch

Axis of Right ^ | 10/6/2009 | Ryan

[paul in cape]

Who Is John Galt.

[rockinqsranch]

I do believe Americans are full up to their necks with this Leftist class warfare crap, and going to do something about it next election cycle.

“You Racist” ain’t gettin’ it no mo.

[ez]

Last person out of NY please turn the lights out...

[FrdmLvr]

Next stop: Galt’s Gultch. All Aboard!

[Sunshine Sister]

I bought Atlas Shrugged at a used book sale last year. I have not read it yet. Maybe I should.

[angkor]

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead have changed many lives.

[ClearCase_guy]

One of the principal reforms of Diocletian was that workers could not move to new locations, and that sons had to pursue the profession of their fathers. I believe this is one of the foundations of serfdom and an economic basis for the later, military, feudal system.

If too many people want to leave NY, we'll just pass a law saying they can't. If doctors try to quit, we'll just say that their kids have to replace them.

Easy Peasy.

[weps4ret]

Simply put; “Yes you should”!

I was born in Hutchinson. Not sure why that is important. LOL

Gunner

[ClearCase_guy]

Definitely read it. It's an eye-opener. For what it's worth, Rand can be verbose, and she isn't fond of religion, and her views of sexuality are odd -- but apart from these things (which I consider flaws) the book is a monumental achievement and well worth the time.

I'm currently reading "Unintended Consequence" by John Ross and I consider it equally as worthwhile.

If people really understood the system of government we've been living under since FDR, there would be blood in the streets tomorrow.

[Intolerant in NJ]

“They’re rich and greedy; they deserve to be taxed more than the rest of us.“...Classic - the "rich" are greedy for wanting to keep the money they worked hard to earn, using their own skills and knowledge, but those who want to help themselves to that money for no other good reason than some made-up higher moral purpose, are not greedy - just silly........

[parsifal]

“those who produce, create, innovate and do the hard work at the top are abused to the point of giving up or leaving. “

IMHO, good riddance to bad rubbish. Like the middle classes and poor don’t do all the real work anyway? Good-bye Richard Fuld, good-bye Michael Jackson clones, and the like of Leona Helmsley.

parsy, who is good pure-blooded American White Trash, and not nobility worshipping Euro-trash

[Sunshine Sister]

Hutchinson, KS? Why you are a neighbor. Of course that's important. Not to mention the recomendation to read the book!

I tried to read the book as a youngster but the message went WAY over my head.

By the way..........how do you pronounce the author's first name? I know there is a trick but I can't remember what it is.

[Clemenza]

The entrepreneurial and investor class innovates, the middle classes execute, and the poor just take up space.

Who is more disposable, the guy who hangs sheet rock or the guy who creates and brings a new product to fruition.

Clemenza, who would like to see the death penalty for proletarian populists and socialists alike.

[Sunshine Sister]

I have no doubt you are correct. There should be blood in the streets now, but the momentum is growing. Last summer was the start of the insurrection.

That and the fact that baby boomers are retiring and the golden goose is fading away will at some point in time get the attention of the zoombie money spending machine in Washington............I hope.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"If people really understood the system of government we've been living under since FDR, there would be blood in the streets tomorrow. "

Easier yet, if they paid for gasoline like they do everything else. Price up front, tax later, it would start tonight.

[parsifal]

Sometimes the rich do. Sometimes however, they inherit, they steal, they lie, and they screw everybody under them and around them. Take the latest little financial meltdown. Truth is, the rich are like everybody else, and often worse because they can afford to be.

parsy, who left Galt’s Gulch years ago for the real world

[Boogieman]

“Truth is, the rich are like everybody else...”

Great, then let’s tax ‘em like we tax everyone else. Otherwise, I think we aught to be thanking them for pretty much financing our government for us.

[donmeaker]

Diocletian also complained a lot that when he mixed lead into the coinage, in a completely unfair way, merchants raised their prices...

His great achievement: He died in bed, unusual for Roman Emperors of that period.

[ClearCase_guy]

Sometimes however, they inherit, they steal, they lie, and they screw everybody under them and around them.

But why bring up the Kennedy's?