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Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Teacher Fails Entire Class: Wise Move

This explains why Socialism won't work, and always fails.

Is this man a genius?

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 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 this 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.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

#5 resonates here on the Eastern Shore! Damn we are a mess!

lmclain said...

The idiots who advocate for socialism or any of it's relatives, are usually the ones who don't plan on, or have any desire to, EARN what they have.....
They expect OTHER people to pay their way.
Which doctor will work for free?
And who in any of the trades will work for free?
They are SO stupid.

Anonymous said...

Socialists are really stupid and there are a lot of young people who actually think socialism is a good thing.

Anonymous said...

I completely agree with all 5!

Anonymous said...

Just be a good slave. After all not like the Trillions the Rothschild's have would not give everyone a nice life.

Wait it is exactly like that.

The problem with this is. Family wealth is not earned so much as stolen. It is not a fair game. The richest are chosen to be rich and often a lot of their supposed wealth is illusion, really someone else's wealth.

This might improve the life of a slave. But it will not end the state of slavery.

All should now see that nothing is as it seems in America.

Anonymous said...

Yep, that's how Socialism works (or doesn't work). Always has, always will. History is history (no matter how hard liberals think they can re-write it). The failures of Socialism are well documented, and experiments with it always fail the people, and they are always worse off collectively. Without incentives to work, humans will take the easy way out. Let someone else pay for it. That's the welfare mentality of liberals.

Anonymous said...

Finally a professor with a brain. Simple but effective. We can only hope more will follow.