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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=== |
| | + | An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single |
| | + | 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 |
| | + | no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we |
| | + | 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 |
| | + | 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 |
| | + | students who had studied hard were upset while the students who had studied |
| | + | very little were happy. |
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| | + | But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little |
| | + | studied even less and the ones who had studied hard decided that since they |
| | + | couldn't make an A, they also studied less. The second Test average was a D. |
| | + | |
| | + | 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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