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The U.S. economy is crumbling. Businesses are collapsing in record numbers. Jobs have disappeared. Tax revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?

Everything happening today under 0bama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, Atlas Shrugged, one of the most popular books of all time, selling over 7 million copies.

Now, under _resident 0bama, Atlas Shrugged has come to life. Rand prophesized a country dominated by socialists, Marxists and statists, where looters, free loaders and poverty promoters live off the productive class. To rationalize the fleecing of innovative business owners and job creators, the looter class demonized the wealthy, just as 0bama and his socialist cabal are doing in real life today.

The central plot of Atlas Shrugged is that in response to being demonized, over-taxed, over-regulated, and punished for success, America’s business owners were disappearing — dropping off the grid, and refusing to work 16-hour days to support those unwilling to put in the same blood, sweat and tears...."

They were going on strike to teach that civilization cannot survive when people are slaves to government. That without a productive class of innovative business owners willing to risk their own money and work 16-hour days, weekends and holidays, there are no jobs and no taxes to pay for government. - If you punish the wealthy, the risk-takers, the innovators, you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. In 0bama’s America, fiction is becoming fact.

Thanks VERY much for the ping to this thread, LucyT...and the post TSR!

I haven’t read any post yet but, yeah, EVERY FReedom-loving individual should be “going Galt” on these POS degenerate scumbag SOCIALISTS in the government and the mindless enablers that put up with these TOTALITARIAN-wannabee punk/pricks.

Thanks for the ping!

I've finished reading and then re-reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time (and I saw "Atlas Shrugged - Part 1" the movie, twice). I'm sorry I didn't find this book during high school. Long ago (perhaps in high school) I'd read bits of analyses of it, and in them Rand's characters seemed abstract and technical, as if they'd been sketched out on graph paper. Seeing the movie first (I say this sheepishly) helped warm me up to reading the book.

It's a very rich book. I'm going through the FR Book Club postings on it, chapter by chapter (thank you VERY much for having posted those threads) and am seeing new things each time.

In this story I am finding role models and heroes (Dagny and Francisco) and also cautionary tales (Eddie Willers, Mitchum, Hunsacker).