Thank you for welcoming me. That is very nice. I unfortunately have a front row seat, of sorts, to the decline of America to america. The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves!! I am in part 1-chapter 6 in atlas shrugged. Watching the movies has intensified how I already feel about Obama and his cronies. and have lost a friend over it because of my progression from a unsure democrat to libertarian to ayn rand loving libertarian. Thanks to John Stossel for talking about atlas shrugged last year. Never knew of her before that.

This exact premise is the basis for one of the books I'm currently reading, 'Bullies; How the left's culture of fear and intimidation silences America'. It's astounding, really, that so many people just don't see how anyone that doesn't toe the lib party line gets shredded in a media meat grinder, until finally they go away, or join out of abject fear.

Totally agree. As evidence look at the number of people that were surprised when they had smaller pay checks. It was just the 'rich' right? Watching the news is like reading a chapter in AS. Look...there doing that on this page.