[StBernard] socialism

[Westley Annis]

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single
student before but had, once, failed an entire class. The 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 anyone else.  All failed to
their great surprise and the professor told them that socialism would
ultimately fail because the harder to succeed the greater the reward but
when a government takes all the reward away; no one will try or succeed.

 

Rena