I almost
never do politics on this blog but I found this article to be too interesting not to
post.
"Socialism
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 the president's socialism worked and that no one would be poor
and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The
professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on
the presidents'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. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this
on) 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.”
Does
any of this seem to apply to the USA?
