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Hopefully Santa gives these out this year. Best gift to help counter the elementary school propaganda. #tuttletwins
Happy Monday!
The election is just a few weeks away, and I can’t help but notice how the loudest voices—those pushing for more control, more regulations, and more interference—always seem to be the people who have never contributed anything of real value to the world.
It’s frustrating to see, and it brings to mind one of my favorite quotes from someone who I disagree with on a lot, but who was really prophetic in her vision of our future:
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors… you may know that your society is doomed.”
Ayn Rand saw this coming.
The people telling us what we can and can’t do—the ones who want to control everything from how much rent we charge and what we pay for energy, to how we educate our kids, and even what kinds of cars we drive—are rarely the ones who are out there creating anything themselves.
They’re regulators, bureaucrats, and career politicians whose actual jobs seem to be making it harder for the rest of us to simply live and produce.
Nowhere is it more evident than in the hatred the political class has for Elon Musk.
And it isn’t just since he decided to join RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and other former Democrats in supporting Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency.
The bureaucrats and those who depend on them for favors hate everything that he does and all that he stands for. They’re scared to death he’ll get a position in Trump’s cabinet and pull a Javier Milei and “afuera” 80 percent of the federal government like he did when he bought Twitter.
Wouldn’t that be something?
NEW: @joerogan says the establishment is "terrified" of @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk's plan for a government efficiency agency.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 27, 2024
"That's why I think they're really terrified about Trump. He's not going to play the game."
"He's talked about having Elon come in to do a… pic.twitter.com/LXOHfGWCDJ
A lot of people scoffed at us when we wrote a kids book based on Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. But we did it anyway, and I’m so glad we did because it’s been one of our most loved stories.
The Tuttle Twins and the Search for Atlas shows what happens when creators, innovators, and hard workers are exploited by those who do nothing but stand in their way.
It’s a message that our kids need to understand now more than ever, especially as they grow up in a world where the government increasingly inserts itself into every corner of our lives, and almost always at the expense of people who want to work hard for what they earn.
Not content to take from those who produce and redistribute to those who do not, government is also in the game of crippling a truly free market by giving some businesses unfair advantages over their competition.
In The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco, Ethan and Emily learn that their local government is shutting down small food truck businesses, not because they’re doing anything wrong, but because they’re competing too successfully with established restaurants.
It’s a classic example of cronyism and the devastating impacts it has on small business.
The food trucks were providing a service—affordable, delicious food to the community—but local politicians, more interested in favors than fairness, put a stop to it.
The twins take a stand, rally their community, and fight back against the injustice, and in the end, they win, showing that standing up to government overreach is not just possible—it’s something that good and honest people have to do!
Whether it’s local officials shutting down food trucks, or politicians running on platforms of more control over the free market, the people standing in the way of freedom are those who’ve never built, created, or produced anything themselves.
We already know that if we don’t push back, they’ll keep taking more.
This is why I’m so passionate about teaching these ideas to kids.
The rising generation needs to understand that the future depends on their freedom to create, innovate, and build—without allowing themselves to be hamstrung by those who only know how to regulate and restrict.
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Now is the time to start teaching your kids about the importance of entrepreneurship, standing up to government overreach, and the dangers of letting people who produce nothing control everything.
If you want to help your kids learn these vital lessons, check out The Tuttle Twins and the Search for Atlas and Food Truck Fiasco today!
— Connor
