From RZHOM@aol.com Fri Aug 14 21:24:41 2009
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:24:21 EDT
From: RZHOM@aol.com
To: hal@panix.com, hojack@hargray.com, james.butler@villanova.edu, Setzersrv@aol.com
Subject: Good analogy...................

This seems right on to me.  What do  you think?????????
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> A teaching moment in time......but a  lesson learned....hope we all 
listen....and learn.... 
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> Professor is a Genius 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> The  professor then said, "OK, 
> we will have an experiment in this class on  Obama's plan". 
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> All grades would be averaged and  everyone would receive the same grade 
so no one would fail and no one would  receive an A. 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> When the 3rd test rolled around, the  average was an F. 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> Could not be any simpler than that.  
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