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Cathy Barnella


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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 52
Sign: Pisces

City: Middle of the Sonoran Desert
State: Arizona
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/10/2006
Friday, March 27, 2009 

Category: News and Politics

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  Simple lesson

 An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single  student before but had, once, failed an entire class.

 That class had insisted that 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  socialism.

 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.  But, 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, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit 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.

 Could not be any simpler than that....
deborah

 
good point.

 
Posted by deborah on Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 4:39 PM
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