I am an immigrant. I came to take your job…

…but you don’t have one.

A Lesson in Socialism: France Should Take Note

An economics teacher at a local school made a statement that he had never
failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that Gillard/Brown socialism worked and that no
one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The teacher then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on
the Gillard/Brown 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 pounds – 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 teacher 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,
and gives to those who do nothing, no-one will try or want to succeed.

It could NOT be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on)

Remember, there IS a test coming up. The next election.

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.

Pic 'o the week - yellownose gobies & brain coral

Reblogged from Oceanwire:

A healthy coral reef can be one of the most colorful places on earth: here, a pair of curious yellownose gobies gaze out from their refuge of richly textured bolder brain coral.

Todd Mintz snapped this stunning photo in of yellownose gobies, Elacatinus randalli, and bolder brain coral in Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean.

This pic won First Place, Macro in the…

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Look at those cuties!

Who asked for free healthcare?

I want MY government to spend MY taxes on MY health.

If you have to make a law that hurts a number of people…

…just to prove your morals or faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

Old people at weddings always poke me and say, “You’re next.”

So, I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

It’s Wildflower Week in Texas

Just look at those bluebonnets!