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| Platinum Member | A real surprise is that Ayn Rand was right even 50 years ago, the entire drama happening in Washington today is a déjà-vu of “Atlas Shrugged” Kindly point your browsers to: 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years - WSJ.com Some Snippets: “The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies …” OR “ Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.” OR “Ultimately, "Atlas Shrugged" is a celebration of the entrepreneur, the risk taker and the cultivator of wealth through human intellect. Critics dismissed the novel as simple-minded, and even some of Rand's political admirers complained that she lacked compassion. Yet one pertinent warning resounds throughout the book: When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in society, they start to disappear -- leaving everyone the poorer.” If you have not read the book, then it is time to read it and if you have, it is time to find parallels – “in all fairness”
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