Most of our nation's great problems, including our economic problems, have as their root decaying moral values. Walter E. Williams http://townhall.com/Columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/04/01/our_problem_is_immorality
In his column, Our Problem is Immorality, Walter Williams, asks a very Objectivist-like question, and traces the problems we are having to our politicians and professors not being able to give a yes or no answer.
"And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it." --Ayn Rand, John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged.