Posted by
Sue on Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:51:17 PM
01/26/2012 3:48pm PST
(Ed Will the professor):
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 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 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. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.