A "real life" example of an.......

Experiment in Socialism...h/t Shelley

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. The class had insisted that 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 socialism."

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. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided that since they could not make an A, they studied less. 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, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else. All failed to their great surprise and the professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder people try to succeed the greater their reward but when a government takes all the reward away; no one will try or succeed.

Wopllf

Follow up to last night....

And then I'm Enraged again......

It's not moods, by the way....you can ask Dragn, I'm not moody, unless "good" is truly a mood.

But some things just plain fire my "enraged" muscle to full on turbo. This is one of them:

Our POTUS seems to think that raising capital on the backs of our wounded Veterans is a good idea. "The Insurance Companies should bear an equal portion of the cost of treatment"..........

Cmdr. David K. Rehbein of the American Legion, the nation's largest veterans group, called the president's plan to raise $540 million from private insurers unreasonable, unworkable and immoral.

"This reimbursement plan would be inconsistent with the mandate 'to care for him who shall have borne the battle,' given that the United States government sent members of the Armed Forces into harm's way, and not private insurance companies," Rehbein said late Monday after a meeting with the president and administration officials at the Veterans Affairs Department.

"I say again that The American Legion does not and will not support any plan that seeks to bill a veteran for treatment of a service-connected disability at the very agency that was created to treat the unique need of America's veterans," Rehbein said.

Roberts said that 11 veterans service organizations were told to come up with another plan if they didn't like this one. The groups met on Monday with Obama, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Office of Management and Budget defense spending chief Steven Kosiak.

Come up with a plan? You Dumbass...yes I cursed......there is a plan, and all injured Vets should be taken care of in the extreme with all of the resources of the Federal Government.

"It's not the Blue Cross that puts soldiers in harm's way, it's the federal government," Roberts said, adding that the American Legion would like the existing system to remain in place. Service-related injuries currently are treated and paid for by the government.

The American Legion has proposed that Medicare reimburse the VA for the treatment of veterans.

No, American Legion, that is not a proposal, that's a surrender. You should simply say, "This we shall NOT abide."

He said that the argument about the government's moral obligation to treat wounded soldiers, sailors and Marines fell on deaf ears during the meeting.

"The president deflected any discussion when it got into any moral issue here," he said. "Any attempt to direct the conversation (to the moral discussion) was immediately deflected."

An aside to John McCain.......still think that he's a "good man"?

Then a note to politicians everywhere, when you turn your back on the Men who Served you, who fight Your wars for You.....

There will come a time when THEY turn their backs on You. And, I suspect you won't care so very much for that.

End rant.....I think I'll take one of those PTSD pills the Medic gave me lo these years ago........

Idiots.
Wollf

Happy Guinness Day.......

So, have yourself a safe and enjoyable one.

Musical Interlude, anyone?


More tonight....
Wollf....not a bit Irish, but I do enjoy a pint.

The Chicago River........

Thomas Paine......

"The Second American Revolution".....

Yup, I know, it's been posted in lot's of other places, but just in case you haven't seen it......Watch.


So....what do you think? I know that I am an American.
Happen to be of Amerind and Scottish descent, but no hyphens here.....

Wollf

This week's Adventure.......

From Uber's perspective....all LOL Dawg...

Went to the Beach, Silverstrand in Oxnard......





And, let me tell you, he kept it.

We had a great time as always, Wollf, M'Lady Dragn, Lil'Wolfie, Wolfie the Elder and his best Buddy Jesus.....no, that's not his name, but if you saw him you'd understand........

Ate the best damm burritos at Pepe's, a little food shack down by the beach, played a little football 'til Uber the middle linebacker laid Lil' Wolfie out for the count, tired ever-bodies out, and headed back up to the Lair.......

Yup...
Wollf