These CEOs who are "Going Galt" and threatening their own employees in the process.....

[Tansy_Gold]

9. No, not grumpy at all

It's just that too many people -- on both sides -- really don't know what "going Galt" means. Threatening to reduce employee's pay if a certain person is elected to office isn't anywhere near "going Galt." CEOs are not owners of businesses; they are employees themselves.

If people actually read and understood what Rand was trying to say in Atlas Shrugged and how poorly constructed her logic is -- and "logic" was ironically one of the main themes of her philosophy -- they'd know that the phrase is absurd when applied to the owner of an Applebee's franchise or the founder of the Papa John's franchise.

Rand wrote the book in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and she had to manipulate even that reality (among others) to make the story work. That's why it's often categorized as "science fiction" -- she had to invent new forms of energy and new technological devices to hold the story together.

I've read it, and I've read it more than once. And what's appalling to me is that so few on our side have, because Rand's version of "objectivism" is easily debunked if you know what you're talking about.