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Offline Barman

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Socialism
« on: February 25, 2013, 07:07:04 PM »
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. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) 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.
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Offline The Moan Ranger

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Re: Socialism
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 07:20:40 PM »
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Re: Socialism
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 07:29:08 PM »
Copy n pasted..... :thumbsup:

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Re: Socialism
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2013, 07:49:06 PM »
Too, too simplistic.  noooo:

Why not give the lowest in the class a gun and let him shoot the others and then he'd be top ~ You know it makes sense and it's the American Way!
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Re: Socialism
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 11:03:17 PM »
It's a clever read but doesn't stand too much challenge

Snopes can trace it back to 2009

IMHO a simpler and more biting read is Thatcher's "the problem with Socialism is sooner of later you run ut of other people's money to spend"
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Re: Socialism
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2013, 11:59:54 PM »
Well she should know, she put enough people out of work when she closed the country down for 10 years or so.
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Re: Socialism
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2013, 12:43:57 AM »
Well she should know, she put enough people out of work when she closed the country down for 10 years or so.
Don't get me wrong, I never liked her and time has just made her reign look worse.  But she was a smart cookie and that line was right on the nail.  Every overtly socialist government has always got suckered into spending more and more of other people's money to treat symptoms rather than really going after the root causes.

Was I the only one to spot that the OP used an analogy of Mao style communism to attack socialism?
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Re: Socialism
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2013, 05:31:30 AM »
It's a clever read but doesn't stand too much challenge

Snopes can trace it back to 2009

IMHO a simpler and more biting read is Thatcher's "the problem with Socialism is sooner of later you run ut of other people's money to spend"

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Re: Socialism
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2013, 05:32:03 AM »
Well she should know, she put enough people out of work when she closed the country down for 10 years or so.
Don't get me wrong, I never liked her and time has just made her reign look worse.  But she was a smart cookie and that line was right on the nail.  Every overtly socialist government has always got suckered into spending more and more of other people's money to treat symptoms rather than really going after the root causes.

Was I the only one to spot that the OP used an analogy of Mao style communism to attack socialism?

I didn't.....  noooo:
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