A Virtual Galt's Gulch POST YOUR COMMENT

Are you ready to go to Galt’s Gulch?

About 50 years ago Ayn Rand authored “Atlas Shrugged.” This novel portrayed a society where the producers of wealth, technology, energy, food, and steel were restricted, regulated and taxed by government. Finally this elite group decided they had had enough. They dropped out of society and went to a place called Galt’s Gulch.

At Galt’s Gulch people made what they were worth. CEOs started as janitors at the Galt Power Plant and rapidly worked their way up. Farmers grew food and sold it. It was pure capitalism. The nonproducers of society were not allowed in. The United States quickly fell into a second dark age. The book ended with a second renaissance beginning

Galt’s Gulch was hidden by some sort of cloaking device. Airplanes could fly over head and not see it. This is pure science fiction. We don’t have a cloaking device...yet. Going to a Gulch is not practical. Government would squash one quickly.

I believe a virtual Galt’s Gulch can be created. The Objectivists can’t go to a gulch in the mountains and be unknown to the government. Galt’s Gulch can be all around us. This could be a secret society. People doing business through cash only or possibly an electronic method of commerce that is untraceable.

Let me be clear. I’m against drugs and violence. An example of a strong functioning secret society is the marijuana trade. Many people look the other way for America’s high profit cash crop. Millions of dollars change hands. Most of it missed by the government. I don’t endorse drug use. I use this example to show that people who are willing can move millions of dollars under the radar because they are willing and mostly unopposed. An economic model for a virtual Galt’s Gulch exists today.

Would people look the other way for the Gulch?


Rumblings are already starting. Recently Dick Morris told Sean Hannity on Fox News that a republican majority in Congress could simply refuse to fund Obama Care. The President would be impotent to change this. Our founding fathers were truly geniuses when they designed the balance of power in our government. The 60% of Americans opposed to Obama Care might support this action. The Congressional Budget Office could defund any Government program we don’t support.

How do you feel about going to a virtual Galt’s Gulch?

What would you sell?

What would you buy?

Would you turn them in?