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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years ago
    unfortunately he is a day late and a dollar short in his remarks. the book was published in 1957 but the writing was started in 1947, however Miss Rand's thoughts started way before that. She made a monumental effort to educate or warn the world of what was happening, not what was "going" to happen. so we, you and I have been living our entire lives in a world that she saw and then described to us in Atlas as well as many more of her essays. what santelli brings up unfortunately falls on deaf ears in our country if it is ours because the vast majority are now mostly illiterate since the government has created a school system that produces these illiterates and has been doing it for generation.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years ago
      This whole country is a day late and a dollar short.
      Having written that, I'm having second thoughts.
      No, it is far later than that.
      It's even looking to be far too late, comrade wiggys.
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  • Posted by dwlievert 8 years ago
    Atlas Shrugged, while foretelling the future far better than alleged mystical revelation (Nostril-damus comes to mind), the novel is, at its root, about moral values. Though I am always appreciative of it being cited by a public figure such as Santelli, he is simply touting the "practical" consequences of the book's message.

    Unless or until the moral values portrayed in the book are cited, argued, defended, and tirelessly represented, as Rand so powerfully dramatized, public acknowledgement will have little consequential impact.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years ago
    Ever and always, the producers, the men of the mind, those who act upon their dreams are portrayed as the villains of the world. Mr. Santelli has hit the target. The wonder of it is that he works for CNBC a noted anti-capitalist network.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years ago
    Funny...shutting down energy and wall street is exactly what the marxist left wants to do...

    Hard to believe Atlas Shrugged was even mentioned on cnbc...must of been a programming error.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 8 years ago
    Well, that's all true enough (other than Ayn Rand's
    husband ["talk]ing her out of" using the title The
    Strike
    ; as I understood it, she already considered
    it an imperfect title, and he suggested Atlas
    Shrugged
    ), but I knew it before. Things have
    been going that way for a long time. I saw signs
    at a protest rally (either the 9-12 march in 2009,
    or a march in D.C. the following March, or it
    may have been shared by both places) such as
    "Read Ayn Rand," and "Atlas Will Shrug."
    Things have been going this way for a long
    time.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years ago
    Why don't Wall Street haters just stop using Wall Street to invest their capital or get funding for their projects? Then they don't have to go on strike for 24 hours.
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    • Posted by 8 years ago
      I do not know , cg
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      • Posted by ewv 8 years ago
        They use the "Wall Street" they hate for the same reason Willie Sutton said he robbed banks: "It's where the money is." For the nihilist left there is no contradiction in that. They are deliberately exploiting the system they hate in order to destroy it. Willie Sutton acted the same, but was less evil: he only wanted the money, he wasn't try to destroy the banking system.

        The viros do the same to property rights, They hate property rights and hate the real estate market. They don't believe land should be a "commodity". So the exploit the real estate market and private property rights to buy land and turn it over to government 'ownership' in order to permanently eliminate the private property rights.
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years ago
        I have a very good friend, my best friend from middle school in high school, who I don't see as much any more. He disagrees with me on Wall Street. He keeps his little bit of wealth in a paid-for house with a big safe that has stacks of gold coins, with only a small fraction in "contrarian" mutual funds. My family's little bit of wealth is about 70% in stocks and bonds, mostly domestic. It never even occurred to us to argue over it.

        I can only guess what Wall Street critics think b/c they rarely say it. I heard a non-partisan commentator a few years ago say if you Google OWS, you would get pre-filled searches like "What are OWS positions?" b/c they weren't at all clear what they wanted. My guess is they think separating the owners from the liability results in unethical behavior, but I don't know. That would mean they're fine with debt instruments but not equity instruments.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years ago
    There should be more people of his ilk saying this day and night on the air. Despite the comments on this page saying it to late. At least, someone is saying it!
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