If you don’t know who John Galt is,  then you haven’t read the book “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.  It’s a large book and I joke that you need to take a weightlifting class before you attempt to read the book because of its size, but it will change your life.

     If you have ever read the list of most influential books as ranked by the captains of industry (CEOs) you’ll find “Atlas Shrugged” in the top five.  Amazingly, this fifty-two-year-old novel ranked #33 in Amazon’s top-selling books on January 13, 2009.

     Yaron Brook in “Is Rand Relevant?” from the Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2009 gave this great description of the book, “In Atlas Shrugged, Rand tells the story of the U.S. economy crumbling under the weight of crushing government interventions and regulations.  Meanwhile, blaming greed and the free market, Washington responds with more controls that only deepen the crisis.”  You’ll have to read the book to find out how it ends.

     Free enterprise becomes less free when government becomes involved.  The key to proper government intervention is intelligently informed citizens and government representatives.  (That’s powerful.)