"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged Amen! Ayn Rand tried to tell us! We just failed to hear! Our children should have been REQUIRED to watch or read "Atlas Shrugged" instead of being indoctrinated by #Marxists and #Communists! It's just like Jesus spoke of during the parable of the sower! I've been there! Just because you have 20/20 vision does NOT mean you "see" and no matter how good your ears, you don't always "hear"! To get "eyes that see and ears that hear" you have to seek Jesus, ask forgiveness, and READ The Word of God! Heal your blindness if you have not yet done it! Matthew 13 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: