funny, but illustrative

[bassjones]

Young Henry comes home from his first semester at Harvard University and begins to challenge his extremely conservative father's views on the world, especially as it relates to the confiscation and redistribution of wealth (otherwise known as taxation). Finally, the old man asked his son about his grades. "Oh, I worked very hard, studied late at night, didn't go out and party very often, and I got straight A's." The father told his son he was very proud of him and asked how his roommate did. "He failed two classes, had one C and 2 more D's." "Oh, well perhaps you should accept a B in your classes and transfer your credits to him so he can at least have C's." said the father, "After all, it's not fair that you should have straight A's while he has 2 F's and 2 D's." "But Dad, I worked very hard for my grades while he was out late partying, skipping classes and not working very hard."

After a long pause, the father replied; "Welcome to Conservativism, son."

[WBOB]

Young Henry comes home from his first semester at Harvard University and begins to challenge his extremely conservative father's views on the world, especially as it relates to the confiscation and redistribution of wealth (otherwise known as taxation). Finally, the old man asked his son about his grades. "Oh, I worked very hard, studied late at night, didn't go out and party very often, and I got straight A's." The father told his son he was very proud of him and asked how his roommate did. "He failed two classes, had one C and 2 more D's." "Oh, well perhaps you should accept a B in your classes and transfer your credits to him so he can at least have C's." said the father, "After all, it's not fair that you should have straight A's while he has 2 F's and 2 D's." "But Dad, I worked very hard for my grades while he was out late partying, skipping classes and not working very hard."

After a long pause, the father replied; "Welcome to Conservativism, son."

Nice straight simple forward analogy...

[Frankvile]

nice straight simple foward racsism

[sevesd93]

nice straight simple foward racsism

What is foward racsism?

I can't seem to find either of those words in a dictionary...

[MrSpall]

nice straight simple foward racsism

At what point did the analogy make any reference to racse anyway? Hehe, fun word too, 'rasce'.

You can disagree with the point that the analogy makes. I personally feel it oversimplifies the conservative vs. liberal argument, but please try to be sensible.

It's crap like that which makes every liberal look like an idiot - we're not all Michael Moore (or Jojo).

[bassjones]

nice straight simple foward racsism

huh? me, a racist... that's funny stuff right there. By the way, the first time I heard that analogy was from Dr. Walter E. Williams.

[poopstains]

nice straight simple foward racsism

Awww someone is lonely and want's to be involved.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Jomas Thefferson