John Galt Meets Winnie-the-Pooh - What's News Tonight

There is so strong a linkage between the dusty drift in Ayn Rand's dystopia of 1957 and the present drift by the American economy, where all private investment has been forced out or scared away, that it is now clear that what Ayn Rand (right) wrote about was not America in the 1950s but America in the 21st Century. America in 2009 is so driven by class warfare and big government fixes that it is now everything Lenin dreamed of -- a gigantic socialist state of obedient acolytes -- and America makes the modern Vladimir Putin Russia into an American stepchild.