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Articles are from my book on philosophical inquiry also previously given as talks between me and my earthly father

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 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 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 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 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. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) 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.

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  Vajramukti Yoga Foundations Dear Brian I agree with you about nations building to some extent but i have a different thought process to put forth like if all people who have account in certain bank and all of them go to bank for taking their money . Bank will go bankrupt since the money is only in numbers.It is being played by speculation by smarter peoples or organization or conventionally called as countries. My father asked me a question regarding Gandhian way and modern way and its effect which i am giving here. Father is termed as Pitaji in Hindu terms this is the extract from my book on philosophical inquiry as Upanishads here it goes ...Pitaji you have asked me how Gandhijis philosophy is related with modern way.Its saving the world from the advertisement of the so called advancement it’s a form of check for innovators.
  
  The Gandhian philosophy was a very basis of ecofriendliness. He advocated every individual to make or weave his own cloth, which helps the nature to grow in its mutual aid taken from Russian philosopher Krpotkin.
  Gandhiji philosophy of sarvodaya and antyodaya was remarkable. He got this idea from Ruskin’s book unto this Last, which brought an instantaneous and practical transformation in life. The basis of the book is mystical incidence taken from Biblical story. Mystics come to give us logical perspective not to take us out from one illusion & put into another, so says present Perfect Master Gurinder Singhji, we must have logical conclusions of whatever we do in our lives.
  The Biblical story unto which it is based is very human ... “The kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a vineyard who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. He went to the market place at nine o’clock and saw some men standing there doing nothing. So he told them, ‘You also go to work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage, so they went. Then at twelve O clock and again at three O clock, he went to the market place and saw some other men still standing there, Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?, he asked them. ‘It is because no one hired us’, they answered, ‘well, then. You also go to work in the vineyard, he told them.
  When evening came, the owner told the foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first’. The men who had begun to work at five o’ clock were paid a silver coin each. So when the men who were first, to be hired thought they would get more; but they too were given one silver coin each. They took their money and started grumbling against the employer.’ These men who were hired last worked only one hour they said, “while we put up with a whole day’s work in the hot sun yet you paid them the same as you paid us! ‘ ‘Listen friend, the owner answered, I have not cheated you. After all you agreed to do a day’s work for a silver coin. Now, take your pay and go home. I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Don’t I have the right to do so as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous? And Jesus concluded. “So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last’.
  Gandhiji advocated making our own cloth to help nature and humans to grow in mutual aid, in reference to ecology. Kropotkin disputed the very basis of Darwinism, the survival of the fittest and said that on the contrary nature’s first principle is mutual aid. Relationships between and within species are not primarily aggressive but co-operative; it is not so much a struggle as of symbiosis.
  Brian are we together www.ulslab.blogspot.com