“Pick a goal,” the President said, “Work hard. Succeed.” Some people were surprised that his speech to America’s school kids sounded almost conservative.
We say, “Of course, he needs to inspire success.” He knows his socialist paradise depends on a rich, successful minority to support the poor, oppressed majority.
Nevertheless, we wish he would have told America’s kids this story, apocryphal or not:
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student, but had once failed an entire class.
The students in that class had insisted that socialism was the perfect political system since it’s a great equalizer and assures that no one will be poor and no one will be rich.
“If you really believe that,” the professor said, “Let’s bring socialism to this classroom. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade.”
After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone received a B. The students who had studied hard were upset while the students who had studied very little were happy.
When it came time for the second test, the students who had studied very little for the first one studied even less and the ones who had studied hard decided that since they couldn’t make an A, they also studied less.
When it came time for the second test, the students who had studied very little for the first one studied even less. The students who had studied hard now realized they couldn’t get an A, so they also studied less.
The average grade on the second test was a C. No one was happy.
When the third test was given, no one studied and the average grade was a D.
As the quarter went on, the students’ scores never increased as bickering, blame and name calling resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else.
Much to the students’ surprise, everyone failed.
On the last day of class, the professor said, “Let this be a lesson to you. Socialism will always fail because it’s against human nature.”
“Capitalism succeeds because people are willing to work harder to increase their rewards,” he added. “And socialism fails because no one will tries or succeeds when the government takes away all the rewards.”
Yup, that’s what the President should have told ‘em.
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Yep, that’s the way it is!
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‘I hate the media’?
Can you please just re-register this website for what it really is: ‘I hate the democrats’.
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Actually, I think that it would be a little bit more appropriate to re-register as “I hate those elitests who have no problem reducing America from to great nation that we love to a seething pile of garbage for their own personal gain.” However, Joe, if you feel it appropriate to put all “Democrats” in that category, you might be going just a touch too far.
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Joe,
Same thing. The media is run by democrats.
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The Democratic party has become too liberal and the Republican party acts like moderate Democrats.
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Untill Jesus Christ is the Lord of this world things will always be a mess!
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Sure tell the children to succeed. Then they too can hand Government 48 cents out of every dollar. (CA 2009)
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Taking into consideration all the state/fed/local taxes we pay (including the corporate income tax that is passed along to the consumer) we are probably beyond that 48%.
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That might be a good lesson on the evils of socialism when teaching to moron republicans. That story does not illustrate what socialism is.