Going Galt on Gasoline Gouging! Are You With Us?
If there is anything at all I have learned from the Tea Party conservatives, it's that they are a creative, hard working bunch! After reading over the 200 plus comments on the gas prices around the country I started thinking.... What can we do about this?
Mellie and I were discusing this when it came to us...
As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator, philosopher, and inventor who symbolizes the power and glory of the human mind. He serves as an idealistic counterpoint to the social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces stifling mediocrity and egalitarianism, which the novel associates with socialistic idealism. In the novel's ideology, the industrialists of America were a metaphorical Atlas of Greek mythology, holding up the Earth, whom Galt convinces to "shrug," by refusing to lend their productive genius to the regime any longer.
The use of John Galt as a symbol in the context of political or social protest has taken root in some places. The phrase "going John Galt" or simply "going Galt" has been used[14] to refer to productive members of society cutting back on work in response to the projected increase in U.S. marginal tax rates, increased limits on tax deductions, and the use of tax revenues for causes they regard as immoral.[15] Some people who claimed to be "going John Galt" discussed their reasons on a PJTV program in March 2009.[16] "Who is John Galt?" signs were seen at Tea Party protests held in the United States and at banking protests in London in April 2009.[17] Ron Paul's American presidential campaign of 2008 included a play on the phrase, using "Who is Ron Paul?" on campaign t-shirts; his Congressional web site biography uses the same title.[18]
The name has also been used by bloggers,[19] and a book titled Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered, which argues for free market capitalism, was written under the pseudonym John Galt. Meanwhile, C. Jeffery Small, the founder of go-galt.org, has urged "patriots" to put the "fear of Galt" into members of Congress by burying their offices in copies of Atlas Shrugged.[20]
For more info on Galt click here
Patriots,
Basically Going Galt is a strike or a boycott. We know the one day boycotts don't work. Here is the challenge....Creating a Going Galt (boycott or less consumption). This will be our brainstorming discussion to come up with a specific plan to take our Going Galt on Gasoline Gauging viral and to the masses...
This is something that can and will have the ability to cross all partisanship aisles.... we are ALL affected by high gasoline prices.
The Challenge to PAN Members:
1. How many days or weeks can we keep it going to drive prices down...
2. What ways can people stop using gasoline or less gasoline during that time...(alternatives)?
3. We need a graphic to go with it...( I can have our graphic artist put it together)
4. We need to take it all over the net .... How?
And whatever else you come up with. We need a new rallying point and this is something that is hurting everyone.
Will you help? Will you brainstorm with us? Summer is around the corner and we must drive these prices down.
Lets Go Galt!
Mellie and I were discusing this when it came to us...
Going Galt on Gasoline Gauging!
For those of you who do not know what going Galt is... here is a description from Wikipedia:
John Galt
John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he does not appear in person until the last third of the novel, he is the subject of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer.As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator, philosopher, and inventor who symbolizes the power and glory of the human mind. He serves as an idealistic counterpoint to the social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces stifling mediocrity and egalitarianism, which the novel associates with socialistic idealism. In the novel's ideology, the industrialists of America were a metaphorical Atlas of Greek mythology, holding up the Earth, whom Galt convinces to "shrug," by refusing to lend their productive genius to the regime any longer.
Cultural significance
"The book’s hero, John Galt, also continues to live on," wrote journalist Harriet Rubin in a September 2007 article about the influence of Atlas Shrugged. Rubin mentions John Galt Solutions (a software company) and the John Galt Corporation (a demolition company) as examples of companies named after the character.[13]The use of John Galt as a symbol in the context of political or social protest has taken root in some places. The phrase "going John Galt" or simply "going Galt" has been used[14] to refer to productive members of society cutting back on work in response to the projected increase in U.S. marginal tax rates, increased limits on tax deductions, and the use of tax revenues for causes they regard as immoral.[15] Some people who claimed to be "going John Galt" discussed their reasons on a PJTV program in March 2009.[16] "Who is John Galt?" signs were seen at Tea Party protests held in the United States and at banking protests in London in April 2009.[17] Ron Paul's American presidential campaign of 2008 included a play on the phrase, using "Who is Ron Paul?" on campaign t-shirts; his Congressional web site biography uses the same title.[18]
The name has also been used by bloggers,[19] and a book titled Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered, which argues for free market capitalism, was written under the pseudonym John Galt. Meanwhile, C. Jeffery Small, the founder of go-galt.org, has urged "patriots" to put the "fear of Galt" into members of Congress by burying their offices in copies of Atlas Shrugged.[20]
For more info on Galt click here
Patriots,
Basically Going Galt is a strike or a boycott. We know the one day boycotts don't work. Here is the challenge....Creating a Going Galt (boycott or less consumption). This will be our brainstorming discussion to come up with a specific plan to take our Going Galt on Gasoline Gauging viral and to the masses...
This is something that can and will have the ability to cross all partisanship aisles.... we are ALL affected by high gasoline prices.
The Challenge to PAN Members:
1. How many days or weeks can we keep it going to drive prices down...
2. What ways can people stop using gasoline or less gasoline during that time...(alternatives)?
3. We need a graphic to go with it...( I can have our graphic artist put it together)
4. We need to take it all over the net .... How?
And whatever else you come up with. We need a new rallying point and this is something that is hurting everyone.
Will you help? Will you brainstorm with us? Summer is around the corner and we must drive these prices down.
Lets Go Galt!
This is a really excellent site. I'm sure everyone is angry at the gas hikes and we difinitely need to do something. Have you put this on Facebook or Twitter? Just a suggestion. More people will be interested to do something.
ReplyDeleteJanet Bernasconi
I just forwarded your page to my facebook page. I sure hope it helps.
ReplyDeleteJanet