Socialism in action

[asperity]

A professor 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 third 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 anyone else.

 

To their great surprise, all failed. The professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder it is to succeed the greater the reward, but when a government takes all the reward away, no one will try so no one will succeed.

[Peter T]

That fresh air did you a power of good Asperity.

[wolfie]

The original of that was about communism. and the professor was in Texas. nuff said.

[observer]

SO, having ALL failed, they were ALL equal!

[asperity]

The original of that was about communism. and the professor was in Texas. nuff said.

 

Communism, Socialism? And your point is? And what have you got against Texas? Oh yes, Americans live there

[observer]

Thought the Mexicans were taking it back?!

[asperity]

According to conspiracy theory, the USA, Canada and Mexico will soon be combined in an economic community A La EEC and eventually into a full formed single nation A La EUSSR, with a common currency. So Mexico taking Texas back would be akin to the UK taking back Calais

[observer]

Think you'll find that non-whites and Latinos will form the majority of the population by then.

[asperity]

What, in Calais?????

[observer]

No, the one's in Calais are normally Afghans!

[disgusted]

The original of that was about communism. and the professor was in Texas. nuff said.

Indeed, he was bang on it seems, except for North Korea where it still clings on.

[observer]

Think your talking about State Capitalism - where an elite run things at the expense of the rest; it's however more honest than our elites running things, as they don't bother with the charade of elections! The only place you may find "communism" will be with some undiscovered Indian tribe deep in the Amazon jungle!

[asperity]

I'm not talking about communism, I'm talking about socialism

[wolfie]

Yes but the professor wasn't.

[Lt Kije]

Think you'll find that non-whites and Latinos will form the majority of the population by then

 

I had no idea that native Americans were white Obs

[asperity]

Yes but the professor wasn't.

 

 

Am I bothered?

[wolfie]

With 6 posts on your own thread you obviously are.

[observer]

Kyje: "native" Americans were outnumbered by Anglo-Saxon migrants, who will now be themselves outnumbered by Latino and Afro migrants!

[asperity]

Strangely you might find that the Scots, Irish, French, Russian, Greek etc etc might be slightly miffed to find themselves described as "Anglo-Saxon"

[observer]

your probably right - I was trying to form a distinction from Latinos - who were originally Spanish.

[asperity]

And the Spanish would probably, if you were to ask them, would describe themselves as white rather than black. Trying to seperate people on such flimsy grounds is not very clever.

[observer]

It wasn't on grounds of colour, but of ethnicity - and merely observes a demographic fact.

[asperity]

That won't wash either. I'm afraid you will have to accept that the world is shrinking faster than your prejudices

[observer]

It's a demographic fact that Latinos and African-Americans will form a majority of the population in the US - just fact not predujice.

[asperity]

And that is a problem because..............??