My Journal #354 - We got it

What just amazes me about last night is that 50% of the American’s that voted apparently want a Socialist form of government. And just for those that aren’t familiar with Socialism, that’s where you work your ass off, take risks, and make tough decisions while your neighbor sits on the couch drinking beer and watching re-runs; yet he gets half of everything you earn.

If you are the “couch potato” in my definition then this form of government seems absolutely wonderful. But here is the problem. Eventually the hard working, money making, diligent people just say “Aw, fuck it all!” When this happens you now join your neighbor on his couch, and expect your other neighbor to fund all of you. And everybody gets less . . . and so on . . . . and so on . . . and so on . . .

The couch potato wonders why the working stiffs keep giving up. He may even become angry because his income went down.

That is the second problem with Socialism, it kills motivation.

A college professor once announced to his class that since they all preferred Socialism, his classroom would become a socialist environment. So on the next exam, he averaged everyone’s grade and that is the grade everyone received. The students that studied hard and answered every question correct were awarded a grade of C, as were the students that didn’t study and chose to go get drunk or high instead.

Of course half the class was elated and half the class was pissed.

When the next exam rolled around, half of the students that had studied for the previous exam decided that it wasn’t worth their while to study hard if they were only going to get a grade of C. And guess what? After averaging all the grades this time, everyone got a D- because more students failed.

This time everyone was pissed.

The next test rolled around and no one studied. They all figured “Why”?

And everyone failed.

Enjoy your wonderful president folks, and enjoy failing.

I’m heading to Costa Rica to open my bar.