This has been floating around the Internet and probably is an urban legend. My good friend Tom Steiger (Tom51), turned me onto it.
Subject: Why bother to study?
An economics professor stated he had never failed a single student before, but had failed recently 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, after the Great Equalizer completes his plans.
The professor then said, "Ok, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan." All grades would be averaged and everyone would 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 round, 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 third 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 benefits of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, 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.
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” — Thomas Jefferson Ron Hart provided quote.
I look to this for the lesson in socialism. I am not in a position to argue whether or not Obama's plan is true socialism...but I should become more educated to at least have an opinion.
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