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Monday, July 13, 2009

A Test

Okay, so I borrowed this from JoeShmoe....

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once 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 equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, 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 would fail and no one would receive an A.

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.

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.

All failed; to their great surprise!

Then 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 even have a desire ~ to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

6 comments:

LiberalHater said...

I've always love this story!!! I see that you're being attacked on the Boortz site today. Oh wait, aren't you always? hehehehe

Auntie Em said...

LOL! Yep, me and my big mouth. Lucky for qwerty, I was busy for a bit before you guys jumped in there! Thanks for the assist. I didn't even go back and read it's 'retort'.

Wasn't that Ayn Rand interview terrific!?! I'll have to post those here.

Betsie Morris said...

I think I E-mailed this to you too! LOL!

Auntie Em said...

Hey Bets! Great minds eh?

Geri said...

Oh I love that story ... let me say it again. I love that story!

Here's a cutie for you . . .

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

Auntie Em said...

ROFLOL!!! Geri you are a nut! I was sitting here reading along all serious like.... politician! Oh my that hurt...