Galt's Gulch

Who is Today's John Galt?

Posted by PSULillis 12 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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Is it Romney? Ryan? Was it Steve Jobs? Is it a lesser known person who is hard at work developing hte next great technology in his/her garage?

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  • Posted by $ jmlesniewski 12 years, 2 months ago
    John Galt is a fictional character in a romantic novel. He's meant to represent an ideal, not predict the existence of an actual person.
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    • Posted by PSULillis 12 years, 2 months ago
      I like to think that there are John Galt's everwhere out there. They fight the good fight and get back up whenever they're knocked down. They jump thorugh hoops and climb mountains to make their businesses run.
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    • Posted by sue92 12 years, 2 months ago
      But we need a John Galt.. someone to speak up against our government and continue to speak out even when the government shuts them out. Someone to bring this country together. Because just posting these simple little posts online of our opinions isn't going to make a difference.. we need a John Galt. We Need The People to come together.
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      • Posted by PSULillis 12 years, 2 months ago
        I figure this either needs to be a politician who understands this or a businessman who speaks out loudly against all the red tape he & his business has to get through.
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  • Posted by cj23 12 years, 2 months ago
    I recommend reading the book about Steve Jobs, although an incredible innovator, not the most moral person on the planet. He was incredibly abusive as well. I think there is a way to motivate people without humiliating them. Vince Lombardi vs. Tony Dungy. Both get results, both get certain people to perform. Jobs "reality distortion field" was a thing of magic, and you cannot argue with his results, I guess I believe you can be successful without being abusive, but inspire others through one's own commitment, dedication, knowledge, and expertise. Good guys can finish first, we just don't get as much press when we do.
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  • Posted by NoMoreCages 11 years, 10 months ago
    New to the Gulch, but I would say that Doug Casey might be a good candidate for the modern day Galt. If you look at what he's done in Argentina with La Estancia de Cafayate there in Salta, his unflinching views on personal liberty and the immorality of government (taxation, redistribution, punishing success etc), I think a very strong case could be made for Mr. Casey.
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  • Posted by tcorm 12 years, 1 month ago
    I would just like to put this out there - if there is a 'John Galt' out there who will take some to the Gulch, please, please take me!
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  • Posted by theidealnate 12 years, 2 months ago
    Im writing in Ron Paul. I am not sure, however, if he is Galt or Reardon. The message of reforming the party vice breaking it is more in line with Dagny and Reardon. However it appears Pauls supporters understand that the only way for a party to correct itself is to let it fail on its own.
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  • Posted by lynx 12 years, 2 months ago
    I would like to nominate DAVID WALKER. He is an independent. He is offering solutions for the terrible state of American economics.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 12 years, 2 months ago
    I do not think there is a single John Gult. Every person who build a business (theirs or their employers) is a john gult. Politically we need some people who understand that to remove the regulation that keeps another 10 of thousands of john gults from being who they could be. We do this and the economy will explode. We wont know who this will be until they do it, anyone who has been in congress for 6 years and has not made major headway is not our political, theological or philosophical john gult. If they don't act and make change its time for a new guard because the search has to continue until we find people who can sway others to a reasoned point of view and then make that point of view a reality.
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    • Posted by PSULillis 12 years, 2 months ago
      Does that mean you'r ea ROn Paul fan too? Do you think He recognizes what this country needs, politically?
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      • Posted by XenokRoy 12 years, 2 months ago
        Actually no. I like Ron Paul, but his isolationism I strongly disagree with. His monitary policy is great and I would love to see Romney choose him as secretary of state.

        To me Ron Paul has mostly good values that stand the test of reason (with the exception of his isolationism), however he has been largely ineffective as he lacks the charisma to sway others to his views. As secretary of the treasury he would have the unique opportunity to put his sound monetary policies in place. As a congressmen he has shown an inability to get the support needed to get things done. This may be due to charisma, it may be do to the fact that in many ways he has been alone as a guard of fiscal sound thinking. Either way he would be better as a Secretary of treasury than as a congressmen or a president.
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        • Posted by theidealnate 12 years, 2 months ago
          Ron is not an isolationist. Anyone who believes in trade with ANYONE, peace talks with Iran, no sanctions, etc...is not an isolationist. He simply is a NON-Interventionist. Meaning we have no right to go to other countries and kill people to further our political and monetary influence. War should only be used in self defense, not monetary or religious offense.
          So the charge of isolationist is not at all correct.
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          • Posted by DR_BRETT 12 years, 2 months ago
            We DO HAVE the moral right to help men's freedom -- what we do NOT HAVE is a moral duty to do so .
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            • Posted by XenokRoy 12 years, 2 months ago
              I tend to agree with the essence of what you say here. I also do not think Iraq was about our moral right to help men, but we do have that right. I also think that we had the moral right to go into Kuwait and that we did go there for the right reasons and then had we chosen to go into Iraq at that time it would have been right to do so. The people there wanted our help, we did not owe them nor was it our duty but was our right had we so chosen. Ron Paul talks as if that is not a right, that it should not be done. That to me is Isolationism, and to some it is not. This the agreement to disagree with some.
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            • Posted by theidealnate 12 years, 2 months ago
              You seem to make the assumption that any of these wars or "interventions" is about helping people become free. People who 1. Did not fight for themselves to become free...2. Have a religious and social ideology that scorns freedom...and 3. Did not ASK for you to come make them free, probably will not remain free. Freedom has ONE required ingredient..PEOPLE MUST WANT IT for THEMSELVES. Otherwise, we are no better than the democrat shoving Obama care down our throat for "our own good." No better than seat belt and helmet laws "for our own good." Minimum wage for "our own good." etc. Sorry, it isn't even moral, much less a duty.
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          • Posted by XenokRoy 12 years, 2 months ago
            We can agree to disagree on that one. I wont agrue the point as Ron Paul Supporters tend to be blind to this fact, or perhaps I am blind to your arguments but I have found such debates to be completely fruitless and ultimately of no consequence, so I just agree to disagree.
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        • Posted by PSULillis 12 years, 2 months ago
          So then Gary Johnson?
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          • Posted by XenokRoy 12 years, 2 months ago
            One other item I feel of importance to add to my other response. I do not believe the answer lies in politicians, but in the people who vote for and support them. We have to stay vigilant and boot out our guy if he is not doing the work we want done. While I like Bachmann and Santorium I dont hesitate to toss them if they dont make smaller government happen. The people have to wake up and be John Gault themselves. This will force politicians to address the issues and shrink the government. People have to do it, each and every one of us or we will not turn it around.
            Anyone who does not go to caucus meetings and local town hall meetings to get to konw the local reps, state reps and federal reps is not doing their job and potentially allowing the reps for them to sit down and not perform the tasks they need to in order to shrink the scope of government.
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          • Posted by XenokRoy 12 years, 2 months ago
            Alan West is probably one of my Favorite people in the washington seen. My preference for president was 1) Rick Sanatorium and 2) Michele Bachmann and then 3rd would be Mitt Romney but in my view he is far below the other two. Its a much better option than either of the guys we had in the last election.
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  • Posted by tylerhernandez09 12 years, 2 months ago
    Also, when you consider that Steve Jobs considered going into politics but was talked out of it by friends when they told him that his public opponents would demonize him and his family, then he becomes something of a John Galt. Just imagine how a supremely innovative mind like Steve Jobs could have altered american politics. Of course, Steve Jobs was pretty left-leaning, so who knows what would have happened?....(But maybe Steve Jobs never died but is actually in the Gulch preparing the way for the other newcomers o.O)
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