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Of course that will never happen (the required reading), but the more "Atlas Shrugged" is mentioned by the Liberal press, the more the book will be read and the movies will be seen.
I don't think "Atlas Shrugged:Who Is John Galt?" could be release at a better time, especially since far more individuals will see the film than read the book. At least they will be able to draw "better" conclusions as opposed to "just believing" an absurd comment about the novel by someone who despises the principles on which the actions of its heroes are based.
Deregulation IS the ANSWER. Deregulation did not cause the recent bank crisis, regulation did.
By regulation I mean the government awarded (regulated) banking by creating the federal reserve banking cartel and eliminated competition. Ditto for Wall St's cartel for creation of corporate financing that is regulated to prevent share issuance except when federally approved to do so. This is further exacerbated by borrowing to buy shares and insiders manipulating share prices using the rules they have created to benefit themselves. Without the ability to create credit (money) from nothing there would have been no crisis.
First you tried to save us from the predatory practices of the railroads. Eventually you put them all out of business and we had to move to trucks for commercial freight and autos for personal transportation. Now you're trying to regulate those out of business for the good of the environment. In the meantime you've saddled us with an additional post office that you call Amtrak.
Government is incapable of running or regulating business. You have been engaged in the process of protecting the average American from the wealthy for over 100 years now. The wealthy have figured out how to play you like a fiddle and divide between them and the average citizen is bigger than ever. The other change that has happened is that the political class has joined the wealthy on the high side.
The only conclusion that can be made is that the average American is worse for your help. Please desist.
I would include Sarbane-Oxley and Dodd Frank Laws with Anti-Trust.
Del Gue: "Amongst lnjuns... a tribe's greatness is figured on how mighty its enemies be. "
At a rally in Berkeley, Sigourney Weaver (of "Aliens" fame, more recently known for her role in "Avatar") climbed onto a vehicle and waved her red appointment book around, because she had forgotten her "Little red book of Mao".