18.4.11

INADVERTENTLY ORGANIZING A COMMUNITY?  Freedom Works have put together what Hot Air's Ed Morrissey describes as a mashup of clips from the recently released Atlas Shrugged movie with soundbites from Our President and assorted other politicians.


The video has already been Instalanched. It responds to a request Mr Morrissey made in his review of the movie.
Politicians and lobbyists scream about fairness and the need to force the wealthy to pay their share in order to show compassion.  In fact, the producers could have placed large blocs of Barack Obama’s entitlement-reform speech from last Wednesday into the film, and it would have fit neatly into the narrative.
The review also suggests that ferroequinologists will never lack for work.
When the novel was first published in 1957, the rail industry was still a central key to the American economy.  The film takes place in the near future, starting in 2016, and cleverly uses a global energy crisis to return rail to a central position in American industry. 
Rail has been returning to a central position in American industry, commencing, oh, about 1986, as the major carriers adapted to the Staggers Act, a policy development that doesn't fit the Randians' narrative.  What intrigues, though, is the profligate use of energy in the casting of tube rounds -- not the billets you'd expect as the starting castings for rails -- of Rearden Metal and the development of Acela-styled power cars for diesel freight trains in the movie excerpts.

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