[BITList] a lesson in socialism

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>         */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./**//*
>         */cid:1.3406830557 at web29706.mail.ird.yahoo.com/*
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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
>         recently 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.
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>         The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in
>         this class on Socialist'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).
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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. 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.
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>         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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>         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.
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>         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.
>         /**
>         *
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>         *These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and
>         all applicable to this experiment:
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>         1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by
>         legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
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>         2. What one person receives without working for, another
>         person must work for without receiving.
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>         3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
>         government does not first take from somebody else.
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>         4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
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>         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.
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