Lesson on Socialism

1966stang said:
Actually the French live much better than we do. I have had three French foreign exchange students live with my family and I have been to France. It ain't even close.
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They get mandatory I think 5 weeks vacation, college is a fraction of the cost here. Cost of living is a lot more though.
 
The Dude said:
They get mandatory I think 5 weeks vacation, college is a fraction of the cost here. Cost of living is a lot more though.
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Quality of life is so much better though. Also, there is much more social mobility in France than here. But I am with you Dude, we can and will do better!
 
Truth Detector said:
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently 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 will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

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. As the tests proceeded, 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.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED 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.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read on this experiment:
1.You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2.What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3.The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4.You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!.
5.When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

What I am reading now is liberals, progressives or those that dismiss the STORY because it’s a scenario and not real. They can’t cope with the real truth that you can’t move poor people into prosperity by legislation from Washington, DC. Government doesn’t have the authority to take from Citizen A and give to Citizen B to make things even.

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this on Twitter or Facebook? Neither could I.
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Where's the part where the Marine hits the Professor?
 
The Dude said:
Well I'm going to take my first trip to France on my 35 ft catamaran, spend a month doing the french open and restaurant hopping.
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LMAO @ 35 foot catamaran crossing the Atlantic; damn you're funny! Dumb, but damn entertaining. It will be hard to view the open from your boat however. LOL

Have you ever taken your imaginary catamaran farther than the breakwater?
 
1966stang said:
What happened, the nurse in the mental ward step away from her desk so you could sneak in a post on her word processor?
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I see you are working hard on the civil discourse thingy you whined about in the other forum. There's a word for people like you? Yes, it could be stupid because you are all that and more...but no...ignorant? Yes you are ignorant and then some, but still not the word I am looking for.

Ah yes, its hypocrite; a really ignorant fawning hypocrite at that.

Carry on dunce.
 
Truth Detector said:
LMAO @ 35 foot catamaran crossing the Atlantic; damn you're funny! Dumb, but damn entertaining. It will be hard to view the open from your boat however. LOL

Have you ever taken your imaginary catamaran farther than the breakwater?
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folks do it all the time... I have seen tons of catamarans in the open ocean over the years.
 
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