From: [i Sent: 7/16/2011 6:42:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years . Attachments: image007.jpg Importance: — High From Stevie. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Sinofsky == To: 'Melanie Walker' <3 i Sent: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 11:05 am Subject: ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years . ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years By STEPHEN MOORE Some years ago when | worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster. — — : #45 > Getty Images The art for a 1999 postage stamp. Many of us who know Rand's work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that "Atlas Shrugged" parodied in 1957, when this 1,000-page novel was first published and became an instant hit. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030235