Maybe she's like the parrot on "Monty Python' Flying Circus".
Posted on 08/14/2007 10:46:31 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
It was the breaking-news headline last Friday that three construction workers had died in a coal-mine accident in Princeton, Ind., and maybe the markets melting down too, that congealed in my mind a thought I'd been kicking around for a while now: Our country is having an "Atlas Shrugged" moment.
Trapped coal miners in Utah, smashed levees in New Orleans, busted steam pipes and flooded subways in New York City, a collapsed bridge over the Mississippi River in Minnesota, an air-traffic-control system stressed to its break point. Could this really be a description of the most prosperous country on the planet? Can these all be coincidences? Is it time for a good old-fashioned conspiracy theory, the type that a reflection on Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan's early mentor, might inform?
For sensible adults who haven't thought about Rand and her darkly fabulist novel in years, the thing to remember about "Atlas Shrugged" - other than the cloying mystery, Who is John Galt? - is that the country was disintegrating in front of the eyes of our various capitalist heroes. The rail lines in particular were in peril in this 1957 book, a turgid ode to selfishness nonetheless considered a masterpiece by Rand's followers, who call themselves Objectivists.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Ask her? She’s not all that responsive. Being dead and all, you know...
All you have to do is look at Cuba, The old USSR & Eastern Bloc, Venezuela and Zimbabwe to see our future if the liberal idiot socialists finally succeed in all their schemes.........
While private businesses and industries can and do make mistakes, sometimes colossal ones, they can't hold a candle to government for sustained, painful, deadly and catastrophic malfeasance. I'd be willing to let market forces match up against bureaucratic forces in the long run.
Maybe she's like the parrot on "Monty Python' Flying Circus".
“Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes capitalism and the American way of life from the totalitarian statism that is swallowing the rest of the world.
All the other social groups- workers, farmers, professional men, scientists, soldiers- exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction.
But there is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship.
Their place is taken by armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars.
Businessmen are the symbol of a free society- the symbol of America.”
Source: Capitalism – The Unknown Ideal Chapter 3
“Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.”
Source: Capitalism – The Unknown Ideal Chapter 20
“Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation’s troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers.
In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.”
Source: Capitalism – the Unknown Ideal Chapter 3
All by Ayn Rand
When in danger fear , or Doubt, run in circles ,scream, and shout. It will not solve anything, but it will sure keep you busy.
As America gives "God" his walking papers trying to deport him from public life.. America sprials down the ethics tube.. When Americans become corrupt Americas government becomes even more corrupt.. No mystery here..
PING!.....
heh heh, I like IT!
Holy smokes, this is on CNN’s website? Icicles are forming in Hell right now.
Because democRATs would rather destroy it than lose power.
Just sleeping? Pining for the fjords?
"We buried my mother last month. Had to. Dead, you know"....
"We buried my mother last month. Had to. Dead, you know"....
Just since the beginning of this year, I finally took on the challenge of getting through Rand’s 2 major novels. I had to learn to set aside her atheism and see it as a sort of “secular gospel” as it applies to those who are out there just trying to deal fairly and honestly in “value traded” kinds of endeavours. “Fairly and honestly” is not only important because one day I will have to answer to God, but also because nothing else really works in business from what I can see.
Add to this the “diversity” that Ayn Rand did not envision and you might find more than one John Galt deserting the system - especially in the federal government.
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