Selfish

Everyone on the mainstream news keeps going on and on about Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," and the idea it presents: that the rich people of society get "fed up" with supporting the "mooching" poor people and decide to go on a sort of strike then form their own nation where they don't have to support any people lower than themselves.

There is even a blogger who is trying to urge rich people now to do the same thing. The funny think about his blog is that off to the side is a note from him saying he is looking for employment. Nice. I'd like to meet that guy.

I can't wrap my brain around how selfish people can become. Oh this, this stuff is mine. You can't have any, I don't care how much you need it. Seriously, didn't your parents teach you to share when you where little...oh wait most "old" money people probably didn't have parents that taught them that.

And then there are self made "new" rich people. I worked hard for this money, I'm not going to share it! How easily people can lose sight of where they come from. Having money does this thing to your brain where it is almost damn near impossible to remember what it is like to not have that money. It's like a blanket that covers your eyes. I can't see all those poor people anymore from my big house, so I'll just keep pretending that they are not there.

Could you imagine a nation somewhere made up of America's elite and rich? The thought of it makes me cringe. I'd rather be poor and have my sense of humanity. Strike that, I'd rather have money and my sense of humanity but it seems more and more apparent that that is impossible.