Ayn Rand Was Right: Wealthy Are on Strike Against Obama

Big Government ^ | June 21, 2011 | Wayne Allyn Root

[SC DOC]

There are two classes of people in this country:

Those who work for a living.
Those who vote for a living.

[Texas resident]

That is also called going into a slow roll mode.

[sten]

nailed it.

[sten]

from posts to the original article:

“Oh well, another day in hell....... nothing to be done, as always. Talk, talk, talk, talk “ - egosumvernum

i heard this a little over a year ago. 0bama’s justice dept... civil rights division (yes, the same one).

posts like egosumvernum’s are hoping to light a fire.

they hope to goad someone into action... to do something violent while they are in power... so they can act.

best attack against them is... take your chips off the table and refuse to play. let it fail. let it fail hard. very, very hard. it has to. otherwise, the lesson will not be learned and they will continue

[PjhCPA]

You are a lot more polite than I would prefer to be.

[PjhCPA]

go back to DU

[houeto]

Thank you for the link. Very well written article.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Ask the Americans who are fleeing the USA.

[griswold3]

the rent-seekers are alive and well and taking all those government hand outs with both fists

[stompk]

Then hire me and fire whomever you have working for you. Either you're joking or you don't know what I mean.

I read BenKenobi's post to say "if you're doing the dirty work, maybe it's because your employees aren't the "do the dirty work" type, and was saying that he was willing to do the "dirty work" if given a chance".

I was impressed by his post and was hoping to see a job offer in the reply :-)

[Jane Long]

Great article...amazing how much of what you predicted is reality, three years later.

Glad to see you've found a hang out here, FRiend.

[cann]

ping

[Taxman]

Ping!

You gentlemen might enjoy this thread.

[Publius]

This is a good one.

[Billthedrill]

Thanks for the ping. As others have already pointed out, it isn't any one class that is joining the refusniks, it's that portion of all classes that is productive. Galt himself was not a capitalist, he was a junior engineer and inventor.

It has to be remembered that Atlas Shrugged was a work of fiction containing a very skeletal and simplistic economic model that held a number of compromises with the real world in order to move the narrative along. One could not possibly compress the events in the book into the time slot necessary for them to come about as described. Two major premises were that the economic surplus built up as a result of economic activity would (1) run out very quickly, and (2) as a result of the opting-out of a very small number of people. Neither of these appears to be the case in the real world, nor should one expect it.

1. The economic surplus built up over decades of successful capitalism is unimaginably enormous, so much so that socialist economic plans may subsist for a great deal of time looting it. All redistributive economies depend on this. One does eventually run out of other people's money but it takes a very long time, as the still-running automobiles of Detroit's great years attest in Cuba. And poor people who can no longer steal from the rich still can steal from one another. But eventually the noose tightens, and it tightens hard.

2. Supermen are few and far between and the productive class consists in the huge majority of us lesser beings who contribute a little and end up (often through no fault of our own but by law) looting a little as well. That's a much more difficult model to break; far more people will need to opt out, hence the level of oppression necessary must be proportionately greater. A government can certainly do it, though, as the history of the Cold War has shown us. Slaves can keep the economic engine running for a time, but they can't grow it and they can't rebuild it once broken.

But I don't believe it will take such a systemic strike in the United States. Where Rand was right, however, is that change must be systemic; that is, a change in the Presidency will not suffice even if the choice is other than Tweedledum and Tweedledee. A change in Congress is a little closer but still entirely insufficient. What is necessary is a change in government such that the centralization of control no longer offers a means for a small ruling class to enrich itself, for those who direct no longer to be able to be separate from those who produce - that is the foundation of Rand's utopia. No one has ever quite managed it, but the Founders came as close as anyone ever has. A desire to return to their principles is not merely a flight of nostalgia beloved of conservatives, but a recognition that it was a far more effective model for releasing human creativity and productivity than the stifling regulatory state that gradually displaced it. That is, after all, what "Liberty" really means.

[LucyT]

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.

[Art in Idaho]

Here is a bit of my own “going Galt” story, published in AT in Dec of 08 - which also predicted exactly what has come to pass: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/blame_me_for_job_losses.html

Amazing story. I know many doctors who did the same and more since Obamacare. Such a shame everyone has to 'wait it out' until 2013. We have to take charge so America can become great again. Sarah are you reading this? Run Sarah Run!

[bert]

-——change must be systemic——

My view is that we have experienced a systemic change already but not the one of going Galt. Rather than drop out and leave, a choice not available to public corporations, they have ceased the incessant market driven requirement to grow.

The present corporate strategy is static and profitable rather than dynamic and risky. Cash is for keeping rather then investing in hoped for growth.

[Bigun]

This has been going on for quite some time but the pace is now accelerating greatly.

http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/ticktick.shtml

[Mad Dawgg]

'There are folks on this forum, as far as I know, who are indeed "going Galt." '

Here sir...

We took the entire family off of the Family Business payroll. No more contributions to Social InSecurity and Mediscam and Workman's Aggravation.

No hiring of employees, all are now independent contractors. (and by the rules too)

We do alot of bartering and are big into coupons and other alternate forms of payment methods for goods and services we cannot provide for ourselves.