An economics professor 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....
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but maybe money shouldn't be our national incentive because it causes corruption and rewards people for being immoral. hence why corporations pollute the earth: it increases their profit
ReplyDelete9:44am get a better argument or a life, our environment has gotten better since the 1970s and 80s with smog alerts and acid rain. Corporations -that produce things, not the ones who play with money and scams- have improved our lives as well as their bottom lines and do so with efficiency and new technology. Money shouldn't be our national incentive, but Freedom should be. Free to try or fail, without the gov't or special interest.
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ReplyDeletenational incentive????? communist russia?? communist china?? the greatest corrupted, polluting destructive societies on this planet. this is really scary
10:22,
ReplyDeleteYou better get a better example of non-intrusive gov't! The reason the environment has improved is government regulation, specifically the Clean Air and Clean Waters Acts (passed under a Republican president, by the way). Government is not always the enemy, and big business certainly is rarely your friend.
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ReplyDelete10:41am, the argument wasn't about non-intrusive gov't it was about national incentives...but let's go there-Republican president or not, once the acid rain starting eating paint off cars and the smog alerts in the LA Haze got people riled up in arms, companies had to make changes, the gov't didn't know there was a problem til there was evidence but the market had already started to be affected-duh!!! Big business isn't in business to be your friend, otherwise they wouldn't need lobbyists. I love the Spongebob episode when Mr Krabbs learns his lesson after staying at a ritzy hotel whose plaque on the wall says, "We will never deny our guests even the most ridiculous request." Businesses are in business to make money and you do that by generating repeat customers who like your product or service or both, when you get bad publicity or ruin your surroundings ie. environment, it will come back to you. Look at Domino's pizza and the you tube video-not exactly environmental, but that didn't take an ounce of gov't intervention and I'm sure the health dept will take any credit after the fact.
ReplyDelete10:22 what a stupid comment!
ReplyDeleteCorporations in the US are cleaner than anywhere else in the world.
It's good business practice.
What are nieve fool you are!
STUPID COMMENT? CORPORATIONS ARFE CLEANER THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think they are cleaner? Government enforcement of clean air. Why are corporations safer, where do the disabled have better working condiditons, what about the EPA, what about women's rights int eh workplace?
Corporations are sleezy,non caring entities only interested in one thing and that is to line the pockets of the executives. And by the way executives who would take advantage of you in a minute even after they have lined their pockets.
Comon, our government, no matter how you put it, has helped Americans.