Why the left is doomed to fail.
ByAn 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 SOCIALISMwould 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.
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.
Get going and Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus
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November 22nd, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Very well written Dean and absolutely true!
November 22nd, 2011 at 10:19 pm
I heard that the same professor went on to fail an entire generation of classes after modeling his class after the right wing capitalist system.
Firstly, the capitalist professor wouldn’t even give his students any grades. He would distribute the absolute bare minimum required by law, and keep all the good grades for himself in a locked box. Because dammit, he worked hard to become a ‘grade creator’, and so he is entitled to them.
Next, our capitalist professor would decide that he can get even more grades by going in with other professors across the country to invest in securities, sub prime mortgages, foreign grade exchange, and the stock market.
Now because that is all intangible nonsense, the grades will inevitably be lost into the ether through a series of bad investments, causing our professor and all his colleagues to have to borrow millions of grades from chinese schools to keep their way of life going. Except the borrowed grades are all F’s, D’s and C-’s
So the students get even less grades for the work they put in, eventually having to work to a superhuman standard just to get awarded a C-
Then, when the students get fed up and start complaining, the university staff just tell them that there is no such thing as a free meal, and that they just have to work harder.
so every student fails. In the entire country. Because capitalism is broken.
Important lessons here:
-A right wing view ultimately serves only youself and leaves no room for giving a sh*t about the human race as a whole.
-You must legislate human greed, because those right wing people will happily ruin the lives of every other person on this earth if they think they can get slightly richer doing so.
-A capitalist system rewards the greediest few people who best fit the right wing archetype, and punishes those who just want to do an honest days work for honest pay.