As a parent of a 2 year old, I recognize the House GOP's tactics.

[raging moderate]

41. This is straight out of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."

In my twenties, I devoured as many books as possible in my spare time. I read several of Ayn Rand's works. One of them envisions a time when the benevolent billionaire "Job Creators" get tired of the untermenschen workers' unreasonable demands and organize a general billionaires' strike. In Ayn Rand's over heated imagination, worldwide savagery causes an immediate breakdown of civilization. The workers soon realize that they CAN'T control themselves in an adult manner, and that they AREN'T smart enough to do financial calculations, and that they don't know HOW to run industry or government, and that they NEED to be bossed around and kept on short rations. Then they cry and apologize and beg the billionaires to take over again, and promise never to question the wisdom of their Overlords again. Or something like that (It was over forty years ago). All these tantrums, funded by Koch brothers and their cohorts, are strikingly similar to Ayn Rand's fantasies.