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Lost Civilization

Things you can do when you decide to "go Galt"

To really understand what "going Galt" is you have to read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.  

The main actions for "going Galt" center upon taking back our government such that it is "of the people" and not over the people.  The steps might include:

  • Reduce the size of government... drastically
  • Balanced budget amendment
  • Support business's right to succeed or fail without intervention.  No bailouts.  No incentives of any kind.  No price supports. 
  • Deregulate specific industries such as utilities, energy, medical, and insurance
  • Tax reform.  Eliminate confiscatory taxes, especially on business.  More reliance on consumption taxes and import tarriffs.  Less reliance on Income and Death taxes.  
  • Tort reform.  Eliminate 
  • Immigration reform.  Secure the borders.
  • Reduce entitlements and convert them into refundable tax credits

For those who want to go to the next level of Galt, consider these steps:

  1. Home Schooling
  2. Taking care of you own parents in their old age
  3. Saving and investing in hard assets like land, gold, and companies with lots of real assets and earnings.
  4. Working off the grid.  
  5. Bartering where possible
  6. Generating your own energy
  7. Growing your own food
  8. Replacing your TV with Internet
  9. Replacing your phone with Skype (encrypted)
  10. Resolving not to buy health insurance - invest the savings and borrow in an emergency.
  11. Arming yourself

 

Filed under  //   Galt   socialism  
Posted September 18, 2009 by Hudson Barton 
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Socialist Rendition of the 23rd Psalm

The government is my shepherd: I need not work.
It alloweth me to lie down on a good job;
It leadeth me beside still factories;
It destroyeth my initiative.
It leadeth me in a path of a parasite for politic's sake;
Yea though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficit-spending, I will fear no evil, for the government is with me.
It prepareth an economic Utopia for me, by appropriating the earnings of my own grandchildren.
It filleth my head with false security;
My inefficiency runneth over.
Surely the government should care for me all the days of my life,
And I shall dwell in a fool's paradise forever.

Filed under  //   Bible   socialism  
Posted September 18, 2009 by Hudson Barton 
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American Leftists Storm the Bastille

The Tyranny of a Mob
 
http://wcbstv.com/local/nyu.students.protest.2.939086.html
 
In scenes all across America, young people who have shared in Obama's victory, who have tasted first blood, are crashing the gates of civilized society. They see every institution as controlled by "the man", and they claim their "rights" to destroy them all.
 
Their philosophy of "freedom" and "rights" is totally unlike the American Revolution wherein we claimed that all men are created equal and from that springs our individuality and our right to pursue freedom under law.
 
These modern American revolutionaries follow the French model of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" wherein we are created unequal and from that springs a revolutionary desire to be freed from the bondage of institutions in order to pursue democratic collectivist utopia. This socialist model, by its nature, can only lead to oppressive authoritarian regimes.
 
It happened in 18th century revolutionary France (leading to the dictator Napoleon). It happened again in the early part of the 20th century with the socialist Weimar Republic (that led to the Nazis), and again with the Bolshevik revolution that led to the oppressive USSR. In the 21st century, it's happening in America.
 
Here, NYU (New York University) students apparently think that they can dictate terms to the institution that houses, feeds and educates them.
 

 
Institutions like NYU might have seen it coming but didn't. The philosophies long preferred in our so-called "institutions of higher learning" have been that of Rousseau, Marx, and Hegel rather than the conservative philosophies of Augustine, Locke, Smith, and Adams. They are now "reaping the wind".
 
American civil society, having been lulled to sleep by liberal institutions and an over-weaning government is breaking down quickly. A collectivist, socialist revolution is just around the corner and it bears no resemblance to the American Revolution. If history ever repeats itself, this revolution, this "Storming of the Bastille" will surely lead to despotism.

Filed under  //   conservatism   Revolution   socialism  
Posted February 20, 2009 by Hudson Barton 
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