THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIALISM

I wish I'd written this but since I didn't at least I thought I'd share it. It's well worth reading.

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single
student before but had, once, failed an entire class... The 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 ok, 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 anyone else. All
failed to their great surprise and the professor told them that
socialism would ultimately fail because the harder to succeed the
greater the reward but when a government takes all the reward away; no
one will try or succeed.