Herb,
You make the assumption that we want our country to succeed. While I think America is a great place and all, it’s just an idea that is shared among those who live here. When that idea becomes corrupt, failure becomes a good option for reform.
Case in point: the former USSR. They were so wedded to the idea of communism, the only way to reform things was to fall apart first.
Going Galt means withdrawing your support for the way things are going. Like the USSR, at some point, the money will run out for all the social engineering, the system will break down. Ideally, it will hasten the failure that many of us see as unavoidable, and likewise speed a recovery.
This type of “passive resistance” should have your blessing if you believe in freedom of choice and protest. Probably not though. Liberals frequently hold hypocritical viewpoints because consistency is much less important than how you feel about a given situation.
This country started with the Mayflower compact (“no workee no eatee”), and was refined by Adam Smith’s invisible hand (everyone helping each other as a byproduct of self interest). The nice thing about self-interest is that it is self sustaining. Socialism (and communism) are nice ideas. Really, they are, but unlike capitalism, they are self defeating.
