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Capitalism This teacher is truly a genius!
Today I received one of those bulk email chain messages but felt it was way too relevant to pass over. For those of you that think big corporations are evil and make too much money please read this and understand this perspective on why the "Robin Hood" mantality that President Obama working towards will have a significant impact on our way of life and our children's way of life in the future.
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 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 want e d 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.
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.
Could not be any simpler than that.
As the late Adrian Rogers said, "You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Greg Hyer
About The Author: Greg Hyer is the Email Marketing Specialist for Delta Apparel, Inc. and Owner of Hyer Media, LLC which manages online hyper local communities such as Linking the Triangle, Linking D.C. and several others. He's a self-published co-author of the book and ebook "Linking Into Sales" which shows anyone how to use LinkedIn to support the sales cycle. In addition, Greg works with Martin Brossman to produce the Linking into Sales Podcast which is available on iTunes and directly from their blog. He can be found on LinkedIn, Facebook, Google + and microblogs on Twitter as @greghyer. See more articles by Greg Hyer
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