A well meaning relative sent me this, which got me to thinking...

A simple analogy

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 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.

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.

It could not be any simpler than that.

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My thoughts;

The gentleman pictured, is a good representative of much of the media in this country.

He has confused socialism with communism...I submit that there is a huge difference. Canada, Brasil, the Netherlands, and Israel are socialist, and this incident would probably not happen there, at least with the colleagues I know and the schools and universities I observed (mostly as the students are 100 times brighter than ours). The dude needs to travel.

Incidentally, the socialist countries I mentioned above recognize my marriage, communist countries and the USA won't.

Communism like China, N. Korea, Cuba or USSR IS scary, when I hear "socialism" I think of the Netherlands or Denmark or Israel or Brazil or Chile... where no one is hungry, where everyone has access to good health care and education.

Having lived 2 years in a USA supported dictatorship (Guatemala), traveled in Latin America, Nepal, Canada, the Netherlands, Israel and lived in Brasil... I have been able to see the Amazing contrasts and difference between countries I have come to see the advantages to having good health care for all, access to good schools, universities, museums, and good and inexpensive public transportation...

It saddens me that most Americans are far too ignorant, self centered and selfish to think that the quality of our communities is less important than 1.5 cent increase on a sales tax...

tho I like his chuzpah... I think he's talking about Communism