An Interesting Thought

I usually don't get involved too much politically, but as the mid-term elections roll around, I just wanted to encourage all of you out there to remember to vote. Here is an interesting story to help motivate you. If you feel led - pass this story along.

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 1st 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 2nd 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 2nd 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 the government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.


As the late Adrian Rogers said, "You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."