My husband and I just returned home from seeing Atlas Shrugged. Near the end, an announcement is made that forbids companies from moving from one state to another. I turned to my husband and said, “NRLB and Boeing”. Life imitating fiction that was written 50 years ago!
Ripped from the headlines? More like the headlines torn from the pages of Atlas Shrugged!!! It’s hard to tell if you are reading the book, or the daily newspaper.
Very SCARY indeed.
“More like the headlines torn from the pages of Atlas Shrugged!!!”
I love the way you put that!!!
“It’s hard to tell if you are reading the book, or the daily newspaper.”
Sorry, I have to disagree. The US government is not nearly as toothless as portrayed in Atlas Shrugged. When the real US government decides to go after a business, it moves in with a SWAT team, arrest warrants, subpoenas; it arrests the principals, seizes their computers, shuts down Internet access; it seizes property without due process via asset forfeiture; it threatens felony indictment of the firm to force it to fire its management; etc., etc.
Look at what happened to the online poker industry. The condemned business enterprise does not even have to be domiciled in the USA for the USG use heavy-handed means to force its destruction.
Or look at what happen to Bernard von NotHaus. Federal agents described NotHaus as a “terrorist” for facilitating the use of NotHaus Metal as a means of exchange and a store of value. For the terroristic act of offering privately struck silver coins of authentic weight and fineness, this guy had his inventory of precious metal seized in an asset forfeiture and faces life in prison.
Or look at what Kathleen Sebelius is doing to force the CEO of Forest Labs out of his job. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/another-abuse-power-sebelius_558625.html
The government goons in Atlas Shrugged are helpful, intelligent, and considerate public servants in comparison to the real thing.