What, you might be asking, is socialism?

Bookie has an answer worthy of your time:

Got this in an email from Richard Baehr:

An economics professor at Texas Tech said 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 “Okay, 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.

But, 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, 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.

Share that with a leftist.  Then watch the veins in their neck bulge, the spittle form on their lips, their eyes narrow like a cat's and their lips purse as they form the invective spewing from their malformed brain.

It's what happens when a liberal comes face to face with skewering truth.

Comments

[Tony]

I don't think you'll see too many leftists with bulging veins or spittle because the example you use to support your riduculous position is in fact an urban mith and never happened.

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/socialism.asp

And by the way, the system it would have been replicating was communism, not socialism.

Hope the realization that your whole argument is based on a myth doesn't cause your veins to bulge.

[Rick]

Tony... you spelled myth incorrectly... yet, I understood your point...

Do you see the symbolism in that?