If you somehow missed Barack Obama's view of entrepreurship and success here it is again...
"If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."Compare that to this dialogue in Atlas Shrugged written by Ayn Rand in 1957 that makes the same argument as to why the government is justified in heavily taxing and regulating a successful entrepreneur named Rearden...
“He didn’t invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?”
“Who?”
“Rearden. He didn’t invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn’t have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it’s his? Why does he think it’s his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever invents anything.”
She said, puzzled, “But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn’t anybody else make that Metal, but Mr. Rearden did?Is this life imitating art or art predicting life when we forget the principles that made America what it is?
By the way, Atlas Shrugged: The Movie-Part 2 is scheduled for an October 12, 2012 release.
I went to Part 1 when it was released in May, 2011. Apparently not many others went to see it as it only grossed $4.6 million per IMDb.
I enjoyed the film but was concerned when I saw the box office results that Parts 2 and 3 of the trilogy would never make it to theaters. Thank you to whoever has backed this project financially! Putting this movie together in liberal Hollywood is not an easy task.
It appears that a different cast will play the main characters in Part 2 than we saw in Part 1. You can find out more at the Atlas Shrugged Part II web site.
I can only imagine what Ayn Rand is thinking as she looks down on us. I don't think she is shrugging.
I enjoyed the film but was concerned when I saw the box office results that Parts 2 and 3 of the trilogy would never make it to theaters. Thank you to whoever has backed this project financially! Putting this movie together in liberal Hollywood is not an easy task.
It appears that a different cast will play the main characters in Part 2 than we saw in Part 1. You can find out more at the Atlas Shrugged Part II web site.
I can only imagine what Ayn Rand is thinking as she looks down on us. I don't think she is shrugging.
Beeline, when you finish Atlas Shrugged you will be glad you have read this book. Remarkable insight of what has been happening in our nation for the past 90 years. First FDR, then Johnson, and now Obam. They are succeeding in enslaving the "doers" by leveraging others envy and our own guilt. We may actually have to "go Galt" for real if we don't stop this redistributionist juggernaut.
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