Dear SM,

Frontal-lobe deficiency is your area of
expertise not mine.

I've never seen a damaged brain
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you here and now
I'd rather see, than be one.

As for being a Greenie?
Nah. Although manure power is funny, it's
definitely not hay.
(Politically speaking). ;-)

An economics teacher at a local school made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Gillard/Brown socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The teacher then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on the Gillard/Brown plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

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.

tbc.

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.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the teacher 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, and gives to those who do nothing, no-one will try or want to succeed.


It could NOT be any simpler than that.


Remember,there IS a test coming up.The next election.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You can not legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. 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 is the beginning of the end of any nation.

individual,

Your example is an indictment of the triumph of "individualism" in our me-me-me society. I wonder what the result would have been if the "class" had a feeling of community - and the challenges confronting them were seen from a cooperative - community perspective? It's not surprising that we in the West have little idea of organic community relations. People in the third world are raised to see their immediate communities as integral to their own identity.

Poirot,
Shouldn't you then go & live there ? How do you then explain why everyone wants to come here ?
I live the life where I'm witnessing the efforts of people benefit mainly others.

individual,

I see you're at your most charming again.

I imagine they're all flocking here just so they can glean first-hand the art of the fortunate few perpetually whinging and whining that things are so tough....and to learn that the acquisition of "stuff" is what it's all about.

Carry on.