John Galt, You Go!

Well, the big news from the (rather diminished) Conservative corner of our country is the threat to go "John Galt" on the rest of us.

For those who have luckily escaped the knowledge of who this John Galt is, he is not a real person. He is a character in Ayn Rand's fantasy book Atlas Shrugged. Galt is a very rich man who leads all of the other rich people to run away from society, causing the rest of us ignorant incompetents to decline into a brutish hell of a life. Remember, this is fiction.

Well for all of you brave conservatives out there who are going to take your economic ball and go sulking home because you have to pay a few hundred dollars more in taxes, I have some advice: Go for it! It'll be just like the rapture, only you'll still be here to laugh at our suffering, as we discover that you were so wonderful that there is no one to step in to replace you!

Because, you know, in this world of full employment, there is just no one around to step into your $250,000+ jobs! That's right, no one will take them, so see the rest of us go without the essential services you provide to us! And, after all, you Leaders of Society have done such a magnificent job of building our economy, that we could never hope to go anywhere but straight down the drain without your inspired stewardship!

So, my advice is, Go Away, and see if we don't learn a big lesson about how important you were all along!

Oh, and as an aside, out here in what we like to call the real world, most people are about fifteen years old when they stop getting their philosophy from novels.

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