She wasn’t a libertarian, and she despised libertarianism. Since you are into religion, Christianity, Islam and Judaism are all based off of similar things…do you imagine they all like each other? 
Um, no…I’m not. I already answered this question. The fact that you didn’t read it, like you didn’t read the book under question, just makes the irony meter go up a few extra notches.
Well, you and the mouse in your pocket seem to be in accord I guess. I think ‘we’ (as in the other people in this thread) can scroll up and actually see what I have or haven’t written on the subject if they’ve a mind.
You are wrong because you are using ‘needy’ when Rand used ‘moocher’. They mean different things. To Rand, moochers were people looking for a free ride, and doing so off of the work of men or women of ability, who she saw as the engine that drives the world. In the story, briefly, she envisions a time when the moochers have gained control and are increasingly forcing the people of ability to give more and more of themselves (not just their money, but their ideas, their effort, their skills, etc) to society to keep things going. The main character in the AS decides he’s had enough and drops out. He will no longer give himself to a society he sees and increasingly being unworthy of his effort. He finds others of similar mind, and they decide that they will take down society by taking away all of the people of ability (be they maids or CEOs) from society and allow it to collapse. That’s the distinction she saw, between the people who do the work and those who mooched off of those people. You, since you haven’t read the book, are seeing this as yet another lefty class struggle, between the rich and the poor, but in Rands books there wasn’t such a distinction…it was between those who do, and those who use those who do to get a free ride. You aren’t alone in this assumption.
You might and probably won’t like what the book or underlying philosophy was ACTUALLY about, but good grief…at least try and understand what you are talking about before bulling into a discussion like this.
Back to the OP…who collects the trash in Galt’s Gulch? Easy answer…the person of ability who decides they can make money on collecting other peoples trash and builds a business to do so…or just someone who works damn hard to do the job that needs doing and can make a living for his or her family doing it to the best of their ability. That’s the answer, plain and simple. And the only reason we’ve had pages and pages to this thread is all the digression, thread shitting and assumptions by those who haven’t read the book under discussion (or claim they have while exhibiting little understanding of what they supposedly read) that only rich people were allowed into the gulch, because they assumed, like you, that this is about class, when it wasn’t.
I read the books in college and enjoyed them, but contrary to what folks on this board think I don’t sleep with a copy under my pillow, nor am I in lock step agreement with everything she wrote (I was a bit repelled by the rape scene in Fountainhead for instance…and by most of the sexual scenes in either book. Rand was a freak wrt sex and sexual interaction IMHO, though that has no bearing on this discussion).