“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
This quote is from a man known in our generation as "the prince of preachers," the late Dr. Adrian Rogers. Dr. Rogers was a Southern Baptist pastor and conservative author who served as a two-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention. This quotation is part of God’s Way to Health, Wealth and Wisdom, a sermon series preached by Dr. Rogers in 1984. Dr. Rogers went to be with the Lord on November 15, 2005, yet his words are timeless. Application of the principles he passionately believed in are needed today more than ever before.
But Dr. Rogers' conservative philosophy is rapidly becoming the exception rather than the rule. Our culture is being indoctrinated by socialism on multiple fronts. Appealing to the emotions, this new generation of Marxist peddles the same mind-numbing mush that brought down the Soviet empire. Thankfully, there are those who aren't buying it. Here's one example:
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once 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 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.
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.
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.
All failed, to their great surprise, 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.
I don't think it could be put any plainer.
