A College Professor Who Actually Gets It
This is just gonna be a quick one from the Retard today, but it’s well worth reading on many levels from the blatantly obvious to the genuinely sublime. Got it in an email from a cousin of mine, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I have no idea who the guy is, where he teaches or even if it’s a scan job of one of the pictures people use for building “professional-looking” websites, but it works with the story so what the hell….
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As the late Adrian Rogers said, “you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
This Teacher is Truly a Genius
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once 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 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.
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 third test rolled around, the average was an F.
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. 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. (Please pass this on)
Remember, there is a mid-term election in 2010!
Many, not all, of the people up for re-election are very concerned- not necessarily for you or me- but for themselves. I encourage each of you to become informed and VOTE for what you believe in and want accomplished by the people elected BY YOU.
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December 16th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Probably an urban legend: http://attackmachine.com/blog/2009/07/16/an-urban-legend-but-illustrative-nonetheless/
But it’s right up there with Thatcher’s comment about socialism.