When everyone wins, everyone loses...
We are not all 'equal' and we can't all be the same and we can't all win... this is a complete fallacy... a LIE!A lie that is being sold to the masses and unfortunately, they are buying it. And it is destroying natural competitive instincts and turning people into lazy, jealous, envious losers and drones... "I want me some a dat." "Give me some a dat." "If you have it, I want it, too." are some of the worst comments, I have ever heard...
Some people think that they can do nothing, strive for nothing, have no standards of behavior, have no accountability, morals, values, or responsibility along with no self-awareness. Competition is within yourself. It's to see how you can grow, refine, work on, strive to be, the best 'you', that you can be. Some think that the end results are what's important. That the end justifies the means, instead of the striving, the quest, the challenges, the sacrifice, and the character that
If everyone gets a trophy ... why try...?
When I was a young Girl Scout, selling cookies, a prize of a Teddy Bear was set for the one who sold the most boxes. I decided that I wanted to be that one. So, I took my little red wagon near and far and worked hard, really hard, selling cookies, in order, to achieve that goal and to win the prize. Now, I didn't really want, or need another Teddy Bear. I had many. But the achievement of being the top seller in my Troop and being designated as such, then called up and handed the award of a Teddy Bear, gave me the motivation to work hard and to try and be the winner. And when I was the winner I was full of pride and it showed me that if I worked at something, I could succeed. I could be first... a winner!
Now, if everyone received a Teddy Bear just for trying, or the not trying... I wouldn't have put as much effort into the selling. And our Troop wouldn't have made as much money, or been as successful. If everyone got a Teddy Bear, just for showing up, fewer cookies would have been sold and the Troop goals would not have been met.
If everyone got a Teddy Bear... the motivation to achieve would be diminished, if not eradicated. And if the Troop leader had told me to give my award to someone who didn't work as hard, or work at all, I would've been upset, frustrated, broken-hearted and angry and certainly de-motivated.
Remember the movie, THE BAD SEED? The little girl killed one of her classmates who was awarded a penmanship medal, because she 'thought' that she 'deserved' it and not the little boy who 'won' it. This is what, we as a country are turning into, a bunch of bad seeds...spoiled, envious, bratty bad seeds.
I want it because I want it, not because I deserve it, or worked for it...but because I just want it!
It takes those who work, those with the talent, with the focus, the trying, the persistence, and the effort to raise up and achieve and they are not 'equal' with those who don't try, don't have the talent and can't succeed. Those who don't, or can't rise to the occasion and win, should not receive a trophy. And if you try and don't win then let it serve to motivate you to try again and to strive and to work harder.
To think that everyone should win a prize, creates de-motivation and is destructive for everyone. It is socialism, communism... and the only 'winners' are the ones who 'temporarily' rule over the dummies who are buying into it. As this kind of practice never lasts. It is a system that falls in on itself... always has and always will...
Socialism and Communism destroy motivation and destroys a country...
Why can't everyone get and see this? Why are so many following something that will lead to mediocre living, if not worse?
Everyone can't win. Everyone isn't a winner. We are individual, unique in our talents, our abilities and our individual circumstances and they are ours to maneuver, develop and to learn from. We are all different and our 'equality' is the 'opportunity' to try... and in the trying is where the winning occurs...
When morals and standards, efforts, striving, competition, and pursuing achievement and excellence go, we all lose...
Posted by Ann at 12/6/2011 11:58 AM 
Categories: Inspirational/Spiritual, Politics
Tags: socialism lie instincts competition Losers morals standards accountability destruction excellence the bad seed winners communism
Categories: Inspirational/Spiritual, Politics
Tags: socialism lie instincts competition Losers morals standards accountability destruction excellence the bad seed winners communism
Amen!
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Good lookin conservative women rock! Love you woman@!
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True article. They are destroying our kids and our society with this everyone is equal and a winner and everyone gets a trophy. It's sickening. Kids these days are entitled brats!
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That is known as the evil, God hating form of totalitarian tyranny known as marxism.
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How in the wide world of extreme politics did the American public elect one who despises this country, it's traditions, and it's way of life? Do the people in this country really see socialism and/or Marxism as the solution to all mankind's problems? Socialism and Marxism have NEVER worked. The failure of the Soviet Union, the move of China toward a hybrid model of capitalism, and the pending collapse of the much-touted "European model' of socialism stands in stark contrast to the American Dream that has lasted over two centuries.
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A fool and our money are soon parted(into wasted govt. programs researching stupid things.)
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I agree Ann.
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Totally agree with you on this one. Life, work, school, home etc . are not fair and shouldn't be.
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Stand you ground Ann...i respect you for it.....Socialism is the gateway drug for communism!
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Your blog are great Ann!
Any schmuck can invent a rabies vaccine but when will we find a cure for stupidity?” --Louis Pasteur
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AGREE! Only lazy Obama idiots believe the lie! Everyone else sees the truth. It's all a con. Socialism does not work. Margaret Thatcher said it best. "We run out of other people's money."
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"The problem with socialism is that we run out of other people's money."
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Yes, Obama wants to give teddy bears to the world. What a jerk off! Hitler all over again!
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Good article Ann!
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Obama is a socialist. He is out to destroy the free enterprize system and America!
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Obama is a socialist. He wants to be dicator. He is evil. He wants to destroy freedom and have everyone under control and supression. Teddy bears for everyone LOL!
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Excellent way to put it Ann. Even dumb Obama followers should get it. If they can think.
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This is the fourth time I have tried to post a reply. Is something wrong with your site or go daddy?
Obama wants everyone lazy and easily led and to follow his stupid promises.
He wants no motivation or success in the private sector.
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Amen Ann...I have long proclaimed that eliminating failure, by definition eliminates success...opposites cannot exist without their counterpart.
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The only way to guarantee that everyone crosses the finish line together is to cripple every competitor (the question is: Who gets to do the crippling?). Beware of those who promise you equality, they are always more than equal.
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Exactly George and 'they' make sure that they rule over it all. The reward your friends and punish your enemies mind set of the Obama dictator.
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It's how a dictator sets it up. Promises goodies for all and all lose. Excellent way of putting it Ann.
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Excellent article again.
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Communists have used this jive since the 1870s...
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They want to keep themselves elevated over everyone else.. and keep achievers down...diminish the spirit, rule dominate and control.. pure evil...freedom is gone..
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Stalin and Goebbels agreed the way to subvert a culture was thru the children. Two generations of libbie prop masquerading as "teaching" has set the stage for what we see; young Red Guards...
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Yes, Peter is correct; it's the education system K-Grad school!
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Excellent post, Ann.
All men are created equal BUT all men are not equal. Our Constitution allows all people to become whatever they can make of themselves. The Constution does not even consider entitlement.
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Agree and exactly! And thank you!
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Ann love the way that you put thing and love the way that you look. WOW!
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NICE WORK ..... SO TRUE !!!!!
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That's 4 sure, how true !!!
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that's the Marxist talking point.. everyone is equal, yet those who do not curry favor with the elites can't share the spoils of the collective. Group think has failed in the past and will fail spectacularly in November 2012. America will bear witness to the end of the so called Democrats when they lose this election. The Marxist Party is likely their new moniker.
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Yep and I hope you are correct... and back to America again.. and overthrow all Obama's crap.
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If not, we'll have a repeat of what the founding fathers did to defeat their enemies so many years ago... history repeats when the lunatics run the asylum and the common man sleep walks through life.
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Keep shouting it out Ann! You rock! You are grrreat!
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We do have alot of stupid sheep out there...Sheep that cannot do for themselves...Sheep that will go to slaughter without a question asked.
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That is why we need the Sheepdogs Michael...It's up to us to protect the sheep from themselves. We will always have the poor and lame amongst us. At times it is the poor-in-spirit and the lame-brains
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I think infiltrating America with third world countries like they have done in the past 30 years makes things easier for the big money people to profit on the global scale, it has been at the exspience of the american way of life. We are and have been in a silient war here in the united states. I think even more so than what is going on in the middle east. and you dont have to have guns to take a country out. Who was it ? Stilan said they would take us without firing a shot.
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Oh...but the little boy or girl who loses will run to their wimpy ass parents and then everyone has to be equal and get a ribbon, prize, trophy.....why...why try to succeed....what a wimpy ass country we have become!
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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.
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.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.
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Nice example!
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love this post!
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so true!
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Its no longer OUR government - Hasn't been since Dallas Texas,November 22,1963 -
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