When the going gets tough, John Galt whines and runs away to hide. Is that the kind of hero you want?
Hmmm...you haven't read the book, have you?
He spent his annual vacation at Galt's Gulch. The rest of the year, he was at his job at Taggart Transcontinental, and spending his leisure time working on his projects at his dingy little apartment.
In Atlas Shrugged John Galt just made a collapsing system collapse faster so it can be rebuilt in his way. That's the Cloward-Piven strategy with a right turn at the end rather than a left turn.
That is your conclusion. Another way to say it would be, "John Galt did not want to work as a slave, so he dropped out of society."
If you consider the current direction of the coutry, people like Barack Obama are counting on one thing - that the productive people in society, at the end of the day, will continue to be productive. Extending that line of logic, those who are productive, will continue to offer goods and services that the rest of the country wants, and will continue to pay whatever taxes are foisted upon them.
John Galt didn't "run away and hide," as you claim; he simply chose not to be a slave any longer. Liberals counted on a Galt-like group of people to always be there. If you would rather "stay and fight," at what point do you tip over? When does your hard work pay off? How do you change the status quo?
You got it so wrong! He did not just go away to hide. He intentionally destroyed the amount of potential plunder that the government looters could confiscate and then took the greatest minds that had created the wealth of the nation, so that the Socialist/Fascist Bureaucrat Thugs would more quickly die in their own pestilence and decay.