To be blunt, the United States faces enormous challenges as it enters the second decade of the twenty-first century. Currently, the United States Government pushes the nation remorselessly toward socialism in its attempt to resolve America's problems. The government's increasing control of the banking industry, its massive bailouts of foundering auto makers, and its proposal of cap-and-trade are also examples of the same principle: an expansion of government's power- real or recommended- over the lives of individual American citizens. Whatever the delusions of the United States Government, morally upright and practically efficacious solutions come solely from moving to the opposite end of the political- economic spectrum: to full protection of individual rights and to establishment of laissezfaire capitalism. Objectivism provides the moral and philosophic validation of the political- economic principles of individual rights and free markets.