Who is John Galt?

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"Who is John Galt?" The answer to this question is something that every CTO in America should know. "whoisjohngalt" can be entered as a cheat code in the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. In the game, it accelerates research speed on unit improvements. But who is John Galt in the real world and why is it important to know?

As America watches the president replace CEO's of car companies, take over those companies, and begin to dictate how much executives can be paid, the implications don't register with most people, but to some, is the image portrayed in Atlas Shrugged. This is a very close correlation between Atlas Shrugged. No, CEO's, CTO's, inventors and entrepreneurs may not be going on “strike” in the instant case of today. Some claim they are cutting back hours to lower tax impacts under the new rules. Under the path of socialist leaning and left wing thinking Obama administration, the current action are discouraging and take away the incentives for our entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators, risk-takers of all ilk, creators of jobs, payers of taxes (like it or not, these folks provide almost all of our income tax revenue). As proof, look what just happened to the investors in Chrysler. Now what is the impact to any investor in any company. With Ruth Bader Ginsburg's ruling this week secured investments just became unsecured. Handouts, followed by ownership.

The next step on the agenda seems to be the takeover of health care. "A moral imperative" -- Obama.

"This country -- the product of reason -- could not survive on the morality of sacrifice. It was not built by men who sought self-immolation or by men who sought handouts. It could not stand on the mystic split that divorced man's soul from his body. It could not live by the mystic doctrine that damned this earth as evil and those who succeeded on earth as depraved. From its start, this country was a threat to the Ancient rule of mystics. In the brilliant rocket-explosion of its youth, this country displayed to an incredulous world what greatness was possible to man, what happiness was possible on earth. It was one or the other: America or mystics. The mystics knew it; you didn't. You let them infect you with the worship of need..." from Galt's speech.