A brief visit to Starnsville
If you're not familiar with the reference, Starnsville is the fictional town in the book "Atlas Shrugged" that was home to the 20th Century Motor Company. In the story, the heirs of the Company choose to run it according to their own Marxist ideas of income "redistribution" with sad and predictable results. They put into action the maxim, "from each according to his ability; to each according to his needs." But, of course, the most productive and creative people have no desire to be turned into slaves working for the parasites that live off of the effort of others. And they abandon the company and the town in droves. In the end the town collapses, businesses flee and the very infrastructure of roads and buildings crumbles and begins to return to the state of nature as it was before people arrived.
It is a simple lesson in economics and human nature that the left has yet to learn. And we can see the principle in action in reality. The state of Michigan and the city of Detroit have been run by the Democrats for years, and they have put into place the same kinds of policies that Rand wrote about. Perhaps in a more dilute form, but the principle is the same, and the results speak for themselves. This is the future that Obama and his friends have in mind for the rest of us if we don't kick them out at the next opportunity and roll back their insanity before it's too late.
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