[CaptainAmiigaf]

I have previously posted the advice to READ THIS BOOK, set it aside for three months, then carefully re-read it.
I add to my advice. As I recall the events of the last 3 weeks, I now urge the having of a giant ‘barf-receptacle’ at hand as you read.
The characters of Atlas Shrugged are in the seats of power in Washington. The “journalists” of Atlas shrugged populate the media. The ‘losers’ of the book are headlined in todays media. The ‘evil’ winners of the book are being vilified in today’s media and condemned in the halls of congress.
In other words, we are NOT reading Atlas Shrugged. We are LIVING Atlas Shrugged. Soon to come to a “World of Change” near you. Best of luck.

[demsux]

In other words, we are NOT reading Atlas Shrugged. We are LIVING Atlas Shrugged. Soon to come to a “World of Change” near you. Best of luck.

You got that right, FRiend...finished AS last month and I'm watching it unfold is truly unbelievable.

[ArmstedFragg]

I reread “Atlas” in 2000, during the California power crisis. There were several speeches made by public officials during that period that were almost word-for-word from the book. Governmental idiocy is a universal theme, so there will keep being cycles where the relevance of Shrugged is verified by events.

[6SJ7]

Atlas Shrugged was 50 years ahead of the curve.

[Sender]

I just got my hardbound copy of Atlas Shrugged after so many people encouraged reading it. I heard about the “moochers” and immediately thought of ACORN, community organizers and Democratic voters.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Unfortunately we do not have a magical redoubt to which to retire thus avoiding the wrath of the moochers when the looters can no longer bring "change."

I just pray I am not forced to defend my property from my hungry fellow countrymen.

[TASMANIANRED]

I've had similar thoughts.

For the first time in human history there is no place to flee to.

There is no America that is wide open and unconquered.

There is no Australia that is rough, rugged and untamed.

There is no escape hatch for those persecuted either by religions intolerance, communism, or suppression of intellectual pursuits to flee to.