A Test On Socialism
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 the reward away,
no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that.
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating
the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without
working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government
does not first take from somebody else. 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 my dear friend,
is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth
by dividing it.”
~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931