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[-=AlexXx=-]

‎**Don't know if this is a true story or not, but the message is true**
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.

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 my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation

[senorbueno]

So Obama's been in office for 4 years now... have you already given up on trying to succeed? Might as well b/c we are now all socialists.

FYI socialism seems to work in certain places. Norway seems to be doing alright. They pay significantly more in taxes than we do, have more government regulation, and social welfare programs out the ass, but they have the highest quality of life in the world, as well as more entrepreneur's per capita than the US... how is that possible? It almost seems like paying more in taxes doesn't deter people from trying to make more money... which is odd, bc that's what Fox News tells me it does.

//note, I don't want the US to become Norway. I'm probably not voting for Obama. It's just a pet peeve of mine when people copy and paste political emails and claim it to be FACT when it's just an allegory to prove a very weak point. I could copy and paste a Mitt Romney story in here that would be equally fallacious, but that would get us nowhere

[scott a]

[-=AlexXx=-]

i just copy and pasted a fbook post..... just posting because i thought it was interesting , no need to attack.... lol

[Gnarly Dancer 42]

sounds more like communism than socialism

[scott a]

Gnarly Dancer 42, oh, I dunno...haven't actually read it at all. I just googled this first part and it came up with some links talking about socialism -

[Mr. Top Hat]

These damn liberal professors are going to ruin this country. Nothing but a bunch of BS left wing brainwashing.