• • This Is Newt Gingrich Speaking 
David Weigel, Slate - Weigel Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | In the final days of the Florida campaign, I heard Newt Gingrich debut than refine a different sort of campaign promise. If elected, he said, businesses and job-creators would realize -- within moments -- that they could start being productive again. [....] Too late, it occurs to me: This is the plot of Atlas Shrugged. Capitalists, fed up with a patent-stealing, work-punishing, wealth-looting government, hide out in an enclave founded by mega-capitalist John Galt.     Share on Facebook