An economics professor at a local college made a
statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had
recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's
socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be
rich, a great equaliser.
The professor then said "Okay, we will have an
experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged
and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one
will receive an A... (substituting grades for dollars - something
closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and
everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the
students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled
around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the
ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they
studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased
as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and
no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the
professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because
when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when
government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to
succeed.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
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