• • Atlas in California 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Capitalism  | In the 1950s a novel was written concerning a future United States where the free enterprise system had been crippled by excessive taxation and regulation and where people were slaves to government. Finally, the captains of industry simply gave up and left. The name of that novel was “Atlas Shrugged.” The reality is that in Solano County we have in excess of 12 percent unemployment, our schools are laying off teachers and our state and local governments are verging on insolvency. Today, Atlas is shrugging in California.  

• • Learning from history 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | There is always hope, fellow Americans, so long as there are those who still believe in the power of freedom, liberty, and the capabilities of the individual when they are left to their own devices, to succeed and progress, or to fail and try harder the next time. Please be one of those people, whoever you are. In the words of Ayn Rand, "I swear by my life, and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man -- nor ask another man to live for mine."  

• • How the economy took a dive 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | If you want to know how [government deregulators] they see themselves, read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. They're the John Gault character, only without actually producing anything but paper. They are the product of unrestricted capitalism, finally allowed to flourish without the shackles of government interference and laws put in place by inferior beings for the benefit of the weak, stupid and lazy. They live like emperors because, damn it, they've earned it! They need a good horsewhipping. What a drag that they will never get it.