Voting with your feet

Tam posted a chunk of this under the title "This is John Galt speaking...". Here's the original.

This is something we all need to read but more importantly our fearless leaders need to read and understand because they're going to reap the whirlwind. People who are unhappy with a situation vote with their feet or do the functional equivalent. When the productive members of this society get tired of the bullshit, pack up their bags and go elsewhere we are well and truly fucked.