A recent survey of small business owners in the U. At least four of these are promoted by the Obama administration. Simply put, Obama wants small businesses to provide jobs, but not too many. Taken at face value, one should be skeptical that PPACA will not harm the pace of overall economic recovery. At least that was the plan, until the National Labor Relations Board, backed by the Obama Administration, decided to file a complaint and force Boeing to abandon its South Carolina plant and 5, new employees.
NLRB claims that was retaliating against its union workforce in Washington, despite the fact that Boeing had also hired 3, union workers in Washington since constructing the plant in South Carolina. The suit is unprecedented, without legal standing and, worst of all, absolutely destructive.
A government agency has decided to change the rules without warning and filled the economy with greater uncertainty, making it increasingly riskier for businesses to hire and succeed.
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And we have a number of books masquerading as biographies of Rand, mostly written as further attempts to smear Rand, her ideas and her writing. All my life I have read and heard the smears; they continue right into the present. One of the common smears is to portray her literary style as juvenile, and to claim that her characterizations are two-dimensional. The MainStreet reviews deliberately ignore such depth and report to us that Rand is superficial, appealing only to adolescents.
I found my own eyes unexpectedly opened a number of times while reading this little volume. He is a man of prodigious intellectual gifts — a physicist who brings about a revolution in man's understanding of energy, a philosopher who defines a rational view of existence, and a statesman who leads a strike that transfigures the social systems of the world. Two characteristics make possible the enormity of his intellectual achievements.
One is his unique genius. The other is a trait that men can replicate: his unswerving rationality. Galt describes himself as "the man who loves his life," which is accurate. But above all, he is the man who perceives reality — the man who allows nothing to interfere with his cognitive apprehension of the facts.
He is characterized by reference to his "ruthlessly perceptive eyes" — the eyes that honor facts and see reality for what it is, regardless of Galt's feelings about that reality.
In a signature scene, Galt tells Dagny — the woman he has loved and watched for years — what he did and felt upon learning that she was Hank Rearden's mistress. He went to observe Rearden at an industrialists' conference.
Rearden had everything that Galt wanted and could have had if he hadn't chosen to strike. Rearden had his mills, his invention, his wealth, his fame, and his love relationship with Dagny. For one moment, Galt felt a tearing sense of loss. He saw what would have been his if he hadn't abandoned his motor. But Galt felt that loss for only a moment, because he then recognized the full set of facts defining the situation.
He saw the burdens that Rearden carried, the impossible demands, and the forces stifling and enslaving him. He saw Rearden struggling in silent agony, striving to understand what Galt alone had understood.
He saw Rearden for what he was — the symbol of the strike, the great unrewarded hero whom Galt was to liberate and validate. The scene that he describes to Dagny provides the key to understanding Galt's character.
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