As the late Adrian Rogers said, “you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

Professor is a Genius

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class.

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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.

The professor then said, “OK,
we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.

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.

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 and 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.

Could not be any simpler than that.

The US Government, backed by the Obama administration, is seeking to take control of more private institutions.

Last year the Government began taking ownership interests in banks, and now they are seeking congressional approval to broaden their ability to gain control of more private institutions. In case anyone hasn’t realized, communism is setting its root in our country.

The Obama administration will say it is for the better good. They will blame the problems on corporate greed. But if corporate greed is what put these companies in this position, why bail them out?

Even the largest companies should be allowed to fail. In a free market, the results of a large company failing will fix itself over time. Asking a government to run a private company better then a private company can run itself simply will not work! This is communism, and it has been proven to fail over and over again.

Obama will tout that further regulation will insure these problems don’t happen in the future – ha! Since when did more government regulation ever solve a problem?

This country, which once took pride in portraying itself as the land of the free, is now closing its borders, taking control of private institutions, controlling how much money people can earn, asking people who make a lot of money to give more of it back to the government. The supposed idea is that this is fairer and gives illegal aliens benefits; in reality it serves the greater good of larger government as it distances itself from protecting the world against other bullying countries and nationalizes health care. None of this will make our country better. We will only get poorer, except for our government, which will conveniently grow much richer.

Around the world, countries are taking notice. I lived in Brazil for most of the last year and people were so excited about Obama. Now they are second-guessing. I saw on the newsstand this week a picture of President Obama referred to as Comrade Obama.

China has relied on proven capitalist ideas to grow its economy. Ironically, this communist state is now pushing itself ahead of the United States by pushing an open market agenda.

We will need to endure for another four years before America gets to decide. I am thinking when that time comes, we are going to see a revolt against the government like we have not seen in a really long time.

In the meantime, though, how much of our personal freedom are we going to lose for the greater good of the government?

Jeremiah Thompson