I just finished Atlas Shrugged and there is a lot to talk about pertaining to this novel. First, it a very long book; I read Stephen King, The Stand, which was a little longer and I really enjoyed it, but I got so much more from Atlas Shrugged.
This book should be required reading for high schoolers, the damn teaches union would have a cow. I think Ayn Rand should have written two versions of this book. The book as written is appropriate for people who need the fundamentals of capitalism vs. socialism/progressives. I could have gotten all that I wanted out of the book in about 350 pages.
I already agreed with just about all of the philosophy and political ideals that she was hammering home. However there are a lot of people in this country who needs the repetitive delivery of the points effectively made in this story starting with the Whitehouse. The House and Senate next.
The sad truth is the people that need this revelation are the least likley to ever pick this book up. The youth of this country have been indoctrinated by the leftists from grade school on.
The general theme of this book which is the punishment the successful producers and rewarding the slothful by redistribution of wealth is more true today than it was when the book was written over 50 years ago.
In the book the remedy sought by the people pulling the wagon full of deadbeats is to drop the handle and go on strike. Although that is not going on in an organized way today, more and more professional people are leaving the work force because they are sick of having the looters steal ever increasing portions of their earnings and piss that money away on more food stamps for the obese, National Endowment for the Arts that is so bad nobody wants to buy it and all the other big government giveaway programs. The looters are also causing the productive to leave states like California and New York due to the confiscatory taxes (wealth redistribution) policies.
If you want to see what this nation will be like in the not-too-distant future, look at what is going on in Greece. Greece is a great example of what Obama and the rest of the socialists will do to the U.S. If they are not stopped. No other outcome is possible given our present course.
We have such a short time to turn it around. If we don't do it in 2012 I'm not sure if there will be anything left to save in 2016.
What will be inscribed on America's tombstone?
Will it say " we died not with a bang, but a wimper"?
This book should be required reading for high schoolers, the damn teaches union would have a cow. I think Ayn Rand should have written two versions of this book. The book as written is appropriate for people who need the fundamentals of capitalism vs. socialism/progressives. I could have gotten all that I wanted out of the book in about 350 pages.
I already agreed with just about all of the philosophy and political ideals that she was hammering home. However there are a lot of people in this country who needs the repetitive delivery of the points effectively made in this story starting with the Whitehouse. The House and Senate next.
The sad truth is the people that need this revelation are the least likley to ever pick this book up. The youth of this country have been indoctrinated by the leftists from grade school on.
The general theme of this book which is the punishment the successful producers and rewarding the slothful by redistribution of wealth is more true today than it was when the book was written over 50 years ago.
In the book the remedy sought by the people pulling the wagon full of deadbeats is to drop the handle and go on strike. Although that is not going on in an organized way today, more and more professional people are leaving the work force because they are sick of having the looters steal ever increasing portions of their earnings and piss that money away on more food stamps for the obese, National Endowment for the Arts that is so bad nobody wants to buy it and all the other big government giveaway programs. The looters are also causing the productive to leave states like California and New York due to the confiscatory taxes (wealth redistribution) policies.
If you want to see what this nation will be like in the not-too-distant future, look at what is going on in Greece. Greece is a great example of what Obama and the rest of the socialists will do to the U.S. If they are not stopped. No other outcome is possible given our present course.
We have such a short time to turn it around. If we don't do it in 2012 I'm not sure if there will be anything left to save in 2016.
What will be inscribed on America's tombstone?
Will it say " we died not with a bang, but a wimper"?
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