Taken from a friend;
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 Corbyn's vision of 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 Corbyn's ideological 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 £ 's )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 and 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.
There are five morals to this story:
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
Accredited to Billy Guy
And that is why Socialism the likes of which Corbyn and his cronies idealize hasn't been a viable political alternative to Conservatism/corporate and personal capitalism since the 70's. Sooner or later you run out of other peoples money. As I've said before and the last 40 years are testament to it. Capitalism always wins and always will. Personal greed and personal wealth will always take precedent over the greater moral good. Teresa May is going a long way to throwing this election away and handing it to Corbyn by default but mark my words here and now, and a £100 donation to Shrimperzone if I'm wrong. If, God forbid, Corbyn wins this election both he and his party will be out on their socialist ears in four years time when the great British public realise that for all his talk, for all his and his parties promises and because of his ultimately outdated ideological ideas for change he'll have achieved absolutely diddly squat for the people that put their belief in him. The unions will love him. What's left of the manufacturing North will love him. Old die hard lefties will love him but, and here's the rub, the people that bring the wealth to this nation won't. And that will cost him dear.
Still, that's all hypothetical at this stage.
