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I have not  read  Atlas Shrugged, the Ayn Rand  classic on capitalism yet, but am ordering it on Amazon today.  I was intrigued by a comment on the blog last week about Galt’s Gulch so I did some research. It is from the book.  Ironically, a movie that covers part one of the book just opened this weekend and is getting decent reviews. The book is over 1200 pages and apparently not easy to read. But people who read it appear to have a major epiphany. I guess it is one of those books that makes a major diference in your life.

Why am I so interested in this now? Well the book apparently begins with a United States in economic peril. How very interesting. Today the Standard and Poors downgraded the US credit rating to poor; the stock market tumbled; gas is regularly over $4 a gallon; our president is encouraging class warfare as he continues to socialize major parts of our economy; unions are king;  the administration is not serious about reigning in spending; and so it goes.

I can’t believe the media is not all over the gas crisis; we suffer while the president plays golf!  When we needed a leader to make cuts in our spending, we get a shrill partisan community agitator who shows no interest in real change.

I can’t wait to read Atlas Shrugged. I need an epiphany.