Wednesday, April 13, 2011

'Atlas Shrugged' Opens In Theaters This Friday

By Ralph R. Reiland
Investor's Business Daily
April 13, 2011

Individualists and money grubbers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your servility and confiscatory tax rates.

After all these increasingly collectivized decades, "Atlas Shrugged, Part I" the movie, is finally coming to town. It opens nationwide, appropriately, this Friday — Tax Day. Check your local listings for the time and place.

"Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand's legendary novel, was published in 1957. Instead of focusing on the old tale of victimized workers and greedy owners, the story turns the tables and shows what happens to the world when the innovators and producers go on strike, when the capitalists and owners turn out the lights and disappear.

The question has been asked on billboards, T-shirts and bumper stickers for half a century: "Who is John Galt?" In "Atlas Shrugged," he's the man who initiates and leads the strike of the producers.

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