Below this is what arrived at my Inbox some months back; this is totally the professors story which I believe raises plenty of opportunity for debate. Please look it over and see how it impacts on your point of view
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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 3rd 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!
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For me, it endorses what I said in the last blog about redirecting energy to your own future; there are other parallels to be mentioned here, the one that easily comes to mind is what happened in our beloved South Africa when Nelson Mandela was released from prison; he could have rallied plenty to ’take revenge’ for injustices past, but put the same energy toward building a better life – and therefore future – for himself and many others. This leads me back to the MLM business model, but more on that in the future
