Reply #4: I've been reading her books lately trying to find out what the big

[Solomon]

deal is. I read her "Anthem" and the "Virtues of Selfishness" and now I'm slogging through "Atlas Shrugged" which is a brutal read. I'm only 40% in and feels like I been reading forever. Lots of strawmen and exaggerations in that book. Haven't gotten to the point but so far the do-gooder liberal types are driving the industrialists out of business one by one. It's kind of like a fantasy fiction world in which the mass of people buttressed by public opinion have more control than the mega-rich manufacturing/industrialist class. Her basic premise seems to be the world system would be perfect if only everyone were allowed to act in their own self-interest. Selfishness is the only true morality.

Sounds to me like the teabagging crew and the powers that be have already had their run at proving this theory false. We're in the ditch now because of unbridled greed.