You thought Atlas Shrugged was fiction? Look at this description of Detroit from
today’s Observer:
What isn’t dumped is stolen.
Factories and homes have largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves
now target cars’ catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the
adults in some areas are unemployed. In many neighbourhoods, the only sign of
activity is a slow trudge to the liquor store.
Now have a look at the uncannily prophetic description of
Starnesville, a Mid-Western town in Ayn Rand’s dystopian novel, Atlas
Shrugged. Starnesville had been home to the great Twentieth Century
Motor Company, but declined as a result of socialism:.
………. Which brings us to the scariest thing of all.
Detroit could all too easily be a forerunner for the rest of the United States.
As Mark Steyn puts it in the National
Review:
Like Detroit, America has
unfunded liabilities, to the tune of $220 trillion, according to the economist
Laurence Kotlikoff. Like Detroit, it’s cosseting the government class and
expanding the dependency class, to the point where its bipartisan “immigration
reform” actively recruits 50–60 million low-skilled chain migrants. Like
Detroit, America’s governing institutions are increasingly the corrupt
enforcers of a one-party state — the IRS and Eric Holder’s amusingly misnamed
Department of Justice being only the most obvious examples. Like Detroit,
America is bifurcating into the class of “community organizers” and the
unfortunate denizens of the communities so organized.
Oh dear. No wonder the president would rather talk about
Trayvon Martin. If you want to see Obamanomics taken to its conclusion, look at
Starnesville. And tremble....To Read More...
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