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The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the conservative's philosophy.'
 
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the conservative's philosophy.'
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===Socialism In The Classroom===
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An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single
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student, but had once failed an entire class.
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The class (students) insisted that socialism worked since no one would be poor and
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no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we
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will have an experiment in this class on socialism."
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"All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no
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one will fail and no one will receive an A," said the professor.
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After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The
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students who had studied hard were upset while the students who had studied
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very little were happy.
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But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little
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studied even less and the ones who had studied hard decided that since they
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couldn't make an A, they also studied less. The second Test average was a D.
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No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average grade was an F.
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The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling, all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else.
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To their great surprise they all failed.
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The professor told them that socialism, too, would ultimately fail because of the same basic human principles of incentive.
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The harder people try to succeed the greater their reward (capitalism), but when a government takes all the reward away (socialism) no one will try or succeed.
    
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