7st Principle: The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
Food for thought! (Source: email; author:
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An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a
single student before but had, once, 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 socialism.
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.
But, 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.
The scores never increased as
bickering, blame, 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....
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