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Have you read Obama’s new Directive? 10-289? Just released on Drudge:

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"In the name of the general welfare," read Barack Obama, "to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that--

"Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.

"Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.

"Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.

"Point Four. No new devices, inventions, products, or goods of any nature whatsoever, not now on the market, shall be produced, invented, manufactured or sold after the date of this directive. The Office of Patents and Copyrights is hereby suspended.

"Point Five. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more and no less. The year to be known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.

"Point Six. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the 2007, no more and no less. Over or under purchasing shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification Board.

"Point Seven. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive.

"Point Eight. All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be final."

If you think this is a great idea, then you are Wesley Mouch. It is, however, not far off the garbage coming out of Washington these days, or directly from the pen of Ayn Rand in 1950, pointing to government at its very worst.

Guess who’s back? Back again? John Galt is back, tell a friend. I am glad to see some objectivist philosophy making the rounds. People keep quoting John Galt, but if we’re quoting characters within Rand literature, most of what I’ve read seems to be culled from Francisco D'Anconia's speech on Money. Nice reprint here: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826

I read tidbits of Rand in the blogger world, which seems to spin off endlessly. Most seem unwilling to actually read Rand, much less think about the power of her words. It is becoming a sad sound-bite oriented world when the average person can easily differentiate between American Idol Contestants, but not Plato and Aristotle, or even more contemporary philosophers like Ayn Rand and Kant. And very few bloggers are able to understand the differences and how they relate to the average Joe. Joe may not be able to wade through the prose, but he can certainly feel the difference between Rant & Kant when the moochers target his wallet, and not his neighbors’.

The correlation between the Atlas Shrugged storyline, and what is actually happening in society is endlessly fascinating. Michael Mulligan, a banker, was the first intellectual to go on strike. He went on strike because he was forced by the court to give out a loan to an unqualified applicant. Sounds like the Fed issuing guidelines for banks under the CRA? My question for the group? Is Obama a Moocher or a Looter? I believe he’s a gussied up Mr. Thompson for the more than casual reader.

Going Galt is a nice tagline, but Galt was already out of society well before it reached a similar state to the U.S. economy today. The real question is who is Rearden? Or who is Dagny Taggart? When will producers decide that by continuing to be productive they are enabling the socialists to survive? Money has to be made before it can be looted or stolen. There isn’t a static amount of money on the planet. Capital can be created, or destroyed.

Regardless of what we blog or which talking head we follow, the question is - When will those who produce all this wealth that Obamanoids are trying to take by force or guilt, “Shrug” and shake off the moochers and the looters? They certainly don’t need our permission. For me? I’ve already gone Akston.