The Paddock

Dear Mr. Herman Cain:

Goodnight Sweet Prince.

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.

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 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 a socialism 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

He substituted 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 .

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.

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.

Dream in that I'd knock the living crap out of each of them.

Good for her. She was practicing what the shirt taught...

I was caught between that reaction or you having a full on stroke or heart attack before you ever had the chance to start swinging. I guess it would all be in the timing. I just don't know if you could start swinging before you had the stroke or heart attack.

A snipers dream.

John Lennon wasn't American. And Sean Penn is awesome, don't you guys watch those moving picture shows?

Im for sniping lots of things. haha I kid. Kinda. As for anti-Sniping Americans, does that include a guy that is an American citizen and has killed his family and has a hostage? For the record I hate the beatles and Lennon's music. The only song I remotely like is imagine and only the Perfect Circle remake. Penn is okay I truly dont care about his acting or his politics.

Newt Gingrich will be the next president of the united states. Thoughts?

Newt isn't as tea party as some tea partiers seem to think. He's proven in the past he'll work with the other side at least. That's something most on that side won't do.

Obama--not a jew. But let's start Hanukkah two weeks early just for the hell of it. ROFL. Schmuck.

I think it's real and I like it. It's healthy for the nation. I think it's wrong and ignorant of the people that oppose them to paint them all with one broad lazy dirty hippy brush. They have legit concerns and legit anger. It's the same thing they did to the anti-war protesters in the 60's early 70's. Instead of acknowledging their concerns and listening to them they just make fun of the people protesting. I think it's fair to say that the anti-war protesters in the 60's were right. If it's not "real" like you suggest how do you explain it becoming a world movement? The Tea Party movement was/is real. And so is this. There are people funding and organizing each movement. That doesn't mean the movements aren't real.