"Atlas Shrugged" Sales Rising (Again)

They have begun what I hope is a long-term rise in sales to learn what is behind Obama’s fancy “spending spree.” They want to know what Obama has been working hard to keep them from knowing. People have told them to read this book so they can understand why our president would WANT to destroy our economy. I can reliably predict how people are going to respond to Obama-type swindles by the sales of this book: up or down. One major thing I learned from my second reading of it is this: Why Rockefeller, a man who has more money than he can spend in three lifetimes, would want to push SOCIALISM (collectivism), a system that would take it away from him and redistribute it among other people. The answer is POWER. The power to rule and regulate the lives of others. You don’t have to OWN the money if you, and you alone, decide how it is spent, on whom, and can make that person kowtow to YOU for how it is spent. That’s the one thing he has wished for. He has no more money goals. This book shows you, with an excellent fiction story that illustrates how socialism works, taken to its extremes. (The Economist)