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Understanding John Galt [when doctors, engineers, small business owners, etc., decide to quit]]
24thstate.com ^
| March 6, 2009
Posted on 03/09/2009 10:16:51 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
Hmmm, which candidate in the last election has run their own business?
You guessed it, Sarah Palin.
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posted on
03/09/2009 10:59:22 AM PDT
by
CharlieOK1
(Don't blame me, I voted for Sarah)
To: Winged Hussar
Here’s a tip -
when you get to a long winded soliloquy, mark it with one of those “sign here” flags and skip it.
After you finish the book (should take just a few sittings without the solis), go back and read those as you feel like it.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:00:25 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
To: grundle
Why play by the rules? First, what are The Rules? If its the song they’re playing and demanding we dance to it the answer is obvious. If what we’re talking about is common decency/courtesy/sense, self discipline, self accountability etc. then I can’t see why I should compromise myself for a hand full of $$$.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:01:23 AM PDT
by
556x45
To: grobdriver
glad someone else saw that too...
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:03:50 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
To: grobdriver
"Boy, he got that one right! " Snicker bump......{:-)
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:04:18 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: TXBubba
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:04:49 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
To: MrB
OOps! Beat me by 28 seconds....{:-)
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:06:33 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: TXBubba; Crawdad
"This isn'tt a plot spoiler is it?" If it is the first time you have read it....I don't thinks so.
Probably, IMHO, you will have to read it a couple more times to fully understand all the nuances in the "plot" or "plots".
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:12:00 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: CharlieOK1
I don’t think Sarah Palin ever ran her own business. She helped out her husband in his part-time commercial fishing business (he was also working for BP).
To: 556x45
If what were talking about is common decency/courtesy/sense, self discipline, self accountability etc. then I cant see why I should compromise myself for a hand full of $$$. Thank God someone else is thinking the same thing. My integrity and self-respect is worth more than money. I may be rough around the edges and make a little less, but I can look myself square in the eye every morning and like it.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:17:35 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
To: Eagle Forgotten
I was under the impression she helped her husband run his fishing business. That’s more experience than any of the other boneheads.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:20:59 AM PDT
by
CharlieOK1
(Don't blame me, I voted for Sarah)
To: grundle; Republican Extremist; Boucheau; betsyross60; kalee; shezza; fanfan; wfu_deacons; ...
STARVE THE BEAST! Atlas Shrugged ping!
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:21:41 AM PDT
by
jellybean
(Who is John Galt? ~ Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org for when FR is down)
To: brooklyn dave
Where could the American capitalist class flee to? There aint no place. So that basically means backlash to Obamanomics. What happens when an animal is trapped with no escape? This is why there is so much talk about a revolution. There's no where else to go.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:22:13 AM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Thus always to tyrants.")
To: TXBubba
"Im only 200 pages into Atlas Shrugged. This isnt a plot spoiler is it?"The dog dies in the end.
To: jellybean
Thanks again, jellybean.
Already left my mark tho...
Post 17
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:30:35 AM PDT
by
whodathunkit
(Shrugging as I leave for the Gulch)
To: grundle; Publius
We're discussing this sort of issue right now in the FR Book Club, whose topic is
Atlas Shrugged. Could Atlas really shrug in the United States? What would it look like if he did? How would we know when it's begun? What would the average person do about it? All this and more...
;-)
To: Winged Hussar
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:43:56 AM PDT
by
Publius
(The Quadri-Metallic Standard: Gold and silver for commerce, lead and brass for protection.)
To: TXBubba
Yes, it has spoilers.
I hope you enjoy the book!
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:45:10 AM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
Thanks for this, I was thinking the same thing this morning. So many people miss the real point of Atlas. It doesn't take moving to Galt's Gulch to "go Galt". There are a million different ways to remove yourself from this mess. And your absolutely right, once principled dissent stops, they are truly screwed.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:54:50 AM PDT
by
tonyinv
(I Want Obama To Fail ..there I said it...now say it with me.)
To: TXBubba
Thank you. I will continue to read and then come back here afterwards. Thankfully I do read fairly quickly so it wont be too long....I hope. I love an optimist...J/K, I am also working my way through the book, tried it before in college over 30 years ago but am vowing to complete it this time. I, too, am a fast reader but it is still a lot of book with a lot of philosophy to understand behind it. Here's to success for the both of us.
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posted on
03/09/2009 11:56:59 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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