Denny,
You sure know what you write, or at least you think you are sure about it.

The fallacy you firmly put forth has been debunked for decades, the tropes Rush and Beck have been harping on for years are BS.  Ayn Rand was a novelist, not a political scientist.  Atlas may have shrugged but the principles of naked capitalism leads to predatory warlords.  Jefferson depended on an enlightened mankind to self regulate selfish impulses, where Rand glorified it. Socialism isn't some bogeyman out to get your money.