An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently 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.Like most posts on Facebook it is complete and utter bullshit. The story itself is merely one of a million "e-mail forwards" passed frantically among the over 50 set who only recently learned how to attach things to e-mail. And when I say it's bullshit, I mean the actual story is bullshit (here's Snopes) but that's not what bothers me about this piece. Nor does the fact that it's recycled "right wing, thoughtful, thinking stuff" that has been around some 15 years and sometimes swaps out communism for socialism (because conservative idiots can't tell the difference). It's that it is now tagged to Obama and continues to labor under the delusion that he, and apparently most liberal arts colleges and all of their students, are real, honest to goodness, socialists.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's 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. 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 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. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot 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.
Now, I will leave the stereotype of the liberal arts college for another time as there are people at every college who are liberal, conservative, overtly political, and young and naive and so on and so forth. The myth that is being perpetuated above, and has been to an extreme since 2007, is that Obama is a socialist who is actively trying to implement socialism into the system thus turning America into a socialist republic. Which, again, is tantamount to communism to these fine folks because...Well, mostly because these people are fucking stupid. Obama is a lot of things but a socialist isn't one of them. In fact, I am starting to wonder why people even think of him as liberal at all as he is almost as conservative as one can be and still refer to themselves as a Democrat. Shit, it's getting harder to look at most Democrats and actually think of most of them as true liberals. They are merely more liberal-ish than the moon-dog, tea-partied, right wingers. And that's not saying much.
This isn't even an attempt to disagree with the over all thesis of the made up story posted above. Socialism, like any extreme philosophy rigorously applied in stark, black and white, "by the book" terms as often fantasized by those on the right (which also shows their rigid thinking in action) would fail assuming any of the events of the "classroom scenario" or some the above 5 "best sentences ever to be read" were applied and adhered to in such an exacting manner. The problem comes in partially because no system could be so dramatically transformed into this socialist textbook in such a way that all would participate as described in the above fever dream. That aside, the intent is to demonstrate what "might happen" or show the reader what the evil, liberal Obama "really wants." So, let's examine the 5 best sentences ever one by one and see if this is something that is even, like, happening at all.
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
This is true, they will never be able to legislate literally taking all the wealth from the wealthy and redistribute it to the poor. Though, if you could, the poor would temporarily be less poor and even the playing field and all that but that would never last. The poor would become the rich and the rich would eventually become the poor as there probably is no way to truly have an even playing field. Furthermore, it's a fucking fantasy to think that even if, and this is an unbelievably hypothetical IF, there could be some law passed by some imaginary Congress that would somehow make wealthy people literally give their money to the poor that they wouldn't find some way, some loop hole, some method or move to get the fuck out of that fucking shit straight away. You know, just like they skip out on taxation now. Also, here in reality, the top 5% may get (and I must stress MAY) a small percentage increase in taxes probably back to Bill Clinton like levels and this is what they call socialism. Something that hasn't actually happened yet, and might not happen at all, kind of like when Obama comes for their guns.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
This one, to me, is almost veiled racism and harkens back to the old Reagan trope about the "welfare momma" which is essentially code for "lazy, black people" but can be shared equally among any potentially lazy minority. It also refers to rising taxes which could be used for roads, infrastructure, schools, and a bunch of other liberal stuff like that but really, apparently, go into the pockets of layabouts who do nothing but game the system to get their extravagant lifestyle paid for. Just look at the ghetto and insert whatever veiled, angry, white person talk about their clothes, and their shoes, and perhaps something about fried chicken and "eating out all the time, I can't eat out all the time?!" And beyond the veiled sanctimony it's really mostly a meaningless statement that has nothing to do with much of anything besides white people's hate fantasy.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
Again, forgoing that whole infrastructure, military, money, blah blah blah thing this basically re-states, "They are taking MY MONEY and giving it to ______________ (insert your own racial epitaph)." That's kind of the thing with these folks, and well most people really, it's all about the benjamins and so we're left with this greedy, out for myself, atmosphere that seems to do nothing but breed ignorance and hatred. Oh, but it gives you inspiration to work hard so that you to can one day become a wealthy person and live the American dream...As it has been entitled to thee!
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
Unless, all the dividends are carefully and skillfully invested in separate but successful stocks! By criminy THAT almost sounds like capitalism? Essentially, more buzz word usage by implying that they are going to take away the good people's money, prevent the rest of the good people from being able to reach those wealthy, dreamt of, rich people heights and thus all will be in a glum, even playing field waiting for their loaf of bread where no one can excel and no one will win AND WE WON'T BE NUMBER ONE AND IT WILL FAIL!?!?! Also, the poor darkies and brown people will simply drag everyone down to their level and the American class will all share in their F's because those people don't want to work they want it easy and live in single room apartments with 15 other relatives and family friends in the ghetto and live on McDonald's and whatever they sell at the dollar store FOREVER! Because that's the kind of life those who do need food stamps and welfare tend to actually live. Sure, there's exceptions and even people who are poor who use illegal drugs (another can of worms about drug testing people on welfare, those filthy, filthy poor people!)
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.
We must prevent the OTHER HALF from getting any ideas that they do not HAVE to work! FAIL! FAIL!! FAIL!!! We must have productive, hard workers so our not-socialist system can remain in place. Down with the 99%, they just want to redistribute mah wealth and mah family will die in the streets while getting raped by undesirables. AND THAT CAN'T HAPPEN! And no matter what Obama has done nary a thing, other than push a moderate, "health care" plan that still somehow aids and abets insurance companies and has dared mention that really fucking rich people might (again fucking MIGHT) see a small tax increase in his next term then he is a Socialist and wants and works for all of the above.
So remember there IS a test coming up and it's the 2012 election and guess what? Most of us already fucking failed! You are already duped, you were duped 30 years ago when Reagan showed up and fucked us all! You continue to cling to these outdated, quaint fantasies that have zero to do with reality. Both parties are serving NOT YOU. Both parties are aiding and abetting the movement of everyone's wealth and it's NOT GOING IN YOUR POCKETS. Socialism isn't going to happen and it wouldn't work, and for the record neither is communism (stupid) we got us a bonafide Oligarchy friends and guess who's not in that club? YOU! To once again allude to that Carlin clip that gets sent around frequently, ""The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it."
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