By Joe Stossel
It's amazing how modern politics resembles scenes of Ayn Rand's best-seller Atlas Shrugged.
Like the one in which a high-ranking government official pumps millions of dollars into a failing railroad company. The grateful railroad CEO rewards the government official by renovating his hometown train station and naming it after the government official. The renovation costs $5,700,000 more than expected.
Then comes the ribbon cutting ceremony. The CEO gets on one of his trains to go to the ceremony, but it breaks down. No surprise there: One out of every four trains his company runs is late. The CEO, chuckling at the irony, abandons the train and takes a car to the ceremony.
Unfortunately, that wasn't a scene in Atlas Shrugged. It happened this weekend.
The government official is Joe Biden.
By the way, the first of three Atlas Shrugged movies opens next month, appropriately on April 15th. (TAX DAY)
Read more: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2011/03/21/joe-biden-railroad/#ixzz1HFnoujzd
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- I consider conversations with liberals to be mind exercises. <> But I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning. <>I'm a liberal's worst enemy. I'm educated and I have morals. <>Einstein is credited with saying, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” <> I do not claim to be an Einstein. Still, I question things. <>I admit to sometimes wondering why people stick with failing approaches. <>Einstein is credited with having offered this definition of insanity, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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