Let me just say right off the bat, that it was through a participant of u4prez that I discovered the new trend that I write about here. I was going to post this on Friday but since u4prez ran with a headline about this trend today, I released it a day early.
I understand that some national policies are moving us towards socialism and is removing incentive from our society. I realize that rewarding mediocrity is something that, in the long run, benefits no one. But what I did not realize is that there exists a protest movement that is going with the government flow and accepting medicrioty as a means to teach government a lesson. The movement is accepting the results of national policies and reducing their high levels of productivity which are being penalized more than rewarded.
It is called Going Galt.
It stems from a classic American novel written by Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged. Although written in 1954, the book is as timely as ever.
It is a story about an America where the innovators and creators in our society have disappeared and we lose those of great talent and abilities. It is a theoretical description of the result of our loss of individuality and our market economy. In the book, the government is the oppressive bureaucracy that stifles success and rewards mediocrity. Government is the looter and it reflects the philosophy of socialism. Instead of rewarding success, government penalizes it.
As a result, a character in the book, named John Galt, covertly leads a movement to withdraw the most talented and innovative from the free market engine of the world economy. Galt leads those, who refuse to be exploited by looting governments, on a crusade that denies the looters any booty to loot.
Prompted by the government’s taking incentives out of success and innovation in order to spread the wealth, those who fuel our economy withdraw and government eventually loses its source of wealth and its means to sustain itself and the people it tries to spread wealth to.
That is the premise behind Going Gault.
One web site writes that “Going Galt is dropping out. Closing a business, leaving your job or just working to survive.”
This, in essence cuts off the funding source of government, otherwise known as the looters.
Without having your endless productivity to tax, the government will have nothing to loot and eventually the socialist desire to spread wealth is killed off by there being no wealth to spread.
Since we are becoming a society that increasingly punishes success and productivity many feel it is time for those who make the money and pay the taxes to take it easy, live on less and let the government looters try to spread wealth with very little available wealth.
Current economic policy directions are making the Going Galt movement more and more prevalent. After all, President Obama ran and won on a platform that promised to take money from those who are productive and redistribute it to those who are not as productive or successful. So where is the incentive to be so productive? Where is the desire to earn more if that only means that more will be taken from you.
This leads us to a modern day version of Atlas Shrugged.
Imagine the local supermarket whose owner has more money taken away from them for having a good business. Now imagine that supermarket owner closing his store and putting a sign up on the door that says “Going Galt”. Imagine that sign hanging on those closed doors for three or four days a week.
Under the current system of penalizing success, the store owner may end up with the same amount of money in his own pocket after selling less product than he could have made for selling more products.
Of course the government will also yield less from that store owner and will have less wealth to hand out to the employees of that store who will already be losing out on three or four days of employment and salary.
It’s a vicious cycle that creates a downward spiral prompted by socialist policies which can’t sustain themselves and certainly cannot sustain our government. It is also the impetus behind Going Galt.
Some ways to Go Galt include stop investing. Capital gains taxes remove your profits and enable the government to continue and expand socialist policies. So dry up the source of the financing of those policies. Stop investing.
HowToGoGalt.com also suggests that you “Visit your local school board, or send a letter asking the economics department to teach free market capitalism. A great book to suggest is Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics. I would also suggest donating Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, A Man In Full and other good books to your local school library. Put the pinch on local looters by voting down new tax levies, and supporting groups that fight new taxes. On the other hand it’s a good time to support vocational education and two year technical colleges. Stop giving money to your college alma mater. Just about every college embraces a socialist ideology.”
Going Galt is not a positive thing to have to do, it is really a last resort. But with the way things are going, many in society feel that we are that point.
After seeing some Republicans equivocate on fiscal issues and after witnessing Democrats adopt socialism, many feel that Going Galt, breaking the government wealth distribution system and proving the point, is the only way to bring about change that is meaningful.
Going Galt may actually be the change that we need in order to really give us hope again.
So the next time a tax is raised, a new government program is created and a new private sector company is taken over by the federal government, send a message, Go Galt and let liberals begin to understand just how unsustainable socialism really is.
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This we have noticed,Imagine.
I agree with grrr here. I oppose religious fundamentalism of all kinds. And I agree with kempite too. I have no use for being "moderate". I'm significantly left wing.
That Kempite, is the first statement I have read here I totaly agree with
Grrrr......Unfortunately, those of less conviction, who believe that a moderation of sincere beliefs is the answer to everything, cannot explain how moderation is the way to combat radical murderers. There claim to superiority because of “moderate” opinion does not put an end to terrorist intentions and capabilities, it simply sustains them.
Get back to me OK? I gotta work even though I should be retired. Thanks to the failing economy.
The evidence was on the national fucking news.
You are supposed to be an intern, ask your boss what the hel s going on.
Grrr I dont have an answer for you if it is because of PC in the US and they are in the US then yes I agree deal with them. If I was President no I would not worry about the PC police I would direct the ATF and FBI to take care of the problem here in the US if they had such evidance.
The question is WHY AREN'T THEY DEALING WITH IT?
In my day they would have been on em like stink on shit. With all of the bullshit redefining of what the founding fathers "really meant" though hey are protected by the constitution. I don't recall the british being "protected" during the war of 1812. It's legalistic bullshit pandering to Islamic fundamentalists validating their goddamned dichotimy of murder within our own country. Thanks to the fuckin left. Good job guys!!! I see you are far wiser than we were. For some crazy right wing reason we would have shut down any such bullshit.
If they are inside the US then the FBI and the ATF need to deal with them. Well that might be a question for the previous administration as well as the current one Grrr.
When the federal government KNOWS they are there, and further knows they are training with plastic explosives and fulminate of murcury detonators, well I would say they are being allowed there. So what now give em military resevations to practice on to kill us?
considering the fact that C4C7 and all pastics are illegal in the US how the fuck are they getting away with it?
If they are inside the US then you deal with them dont you? Come on now Grrrr.
Well erock your position is supposed to be defense by isolation, what do you propose to do about the 35 terrorist training camps in the US?
Grrr no because you changed a word a very key word.
Your complete quote is on the comments erock your busted
And without labor, there is no capital. It's sort of like the chicken-and-the-egg question. You can't have profit until you make something, requiring labor. Hence, labor not only supercedes capital, it is more important. And yes, Smashey, I do sense a resentment here toward labor, at U4Prez and across America.
Smashey has a good point and that is you need wealth to pay for the social programs. Interesting blog Kemp.
I don't think we will have to go Galt. The way it's going the policies will unwittingly get us there by themselves.
I dig the concept. I often ask people to name one famous inventor from a communist or socialist country who has ever invented any commercial product that everyone uses. No one ever has an answer. This is where we are heading. And soon after Atlas Shrugs, we will all be changing our names to something like... THX1138. Welcome to the Brave New World, peeps. 1984 is running a little late, but it is coming.
The capitalists pay the bills that fund the social programs. Without capitalists, socialists are broke. I don't think anyone here hates labor. Busineses need the labor to produce. Without a workforce the business goes away. However, when the government punishes the business by implimenting policies that remove the incentive to invest, grow and expand the busineses will have to trim or fold. Either way there is no one to foot the bill for the policies the government is attempting to impliment. It is income stagnation for the government and it is because of thier own policies it happens. They want someone to foot the bill for the programs but take away the incentive for anyone to do so in the process.
There is a saying often attributed to Stalin. The murder of one person is a crime, the murder of a million people is a statistic. Maybe there's a little more Stalin in a capitalist than a socialist, the capitalist sees 700,000 jobs lost in February and plays political games, the socialist sees 700,000 jobs lost in February and acknowledges 700,000 Americans are not long linked to the economy, 700,000 households are in crisis mode, 700,000 families are suffering. To a capitalist, it's cutting labor costs; to a socialist, it's throwing human beings away like garbage.
Galt = Marx. Class warfare.
The wealth creators wouldn't be able to create the wealth without labor. Typical top-down capitalist thinking, it's all about the capital, not the human element. Why do you resent the working class so much, Kempite?
So Imagine89 does want the productive members of society to produce, he just doesn't want them to receive too much wealth for their production? But he does acknowledge that the so called "workers" would have reason to revolt if the wealth creators cut back on creating the wealth that they create.
Hillarious.
When socialist intellectuals have a revolt maybe they will call it turtleneck shrugged.
Me too.
Thats what I thought.
I don't see how thats relatexd to the economy. If the capitalist class "goes galt", the workers will revolt. All of them. And there are many more workers than business owners. I don't really believe in hell, and I'm trying to learn to love my enemies, but these people that actually like the idea of "going galt" really make me hope there is a hell after all.
How bout those terriosts camps in the US imagine? whats your take on that?
"Going Galt" would cause much bigger problems than higher taxes.
This is actually one of the best blogs I've seen on this going Galt phenom.
Good work.
I tried this with my work one week for free blog. Noone bit it.
Intresting movement,although I'd like to see a more positive and direct approach. (with immediate results)
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