Case in point: College students take a pass on GPA redistribution.
Oliver Darcy, a recent college graduate, proposes that students with good grades contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends. He argues that this is how the federal government takes wealth from the country’s high wage earners and distributes it to the low income earners.
“They all earn their GPA,” said Darcy in an interview with “Fox and Friends.” “So we asked them if they’d be interested in redistributing the GPA points that they earned to students who may be having trouble getting a high GPA.”
Darcy, who films his encounters with teachers and fellow students, doesn’t have much luck selling this theory.
He said many students on college campuses support high taxes on the rich, but when put into relative terms, cringed at the thought of spreading around their academic wealth (Fox News).
This reminded me of my own experiment I once conducted with similar results. It was during a weekend and those of us working at my office were working nights. The office decided to order pizza. As we were getting our orders, I let it be known that I did not have any cash on me. However, I did not mention that I had brought leftovers and wasn’t interested in the first place. At any rate, we were fresh off a big office debate on healthcare and taxes. I thought this little learning lesson was too good to pass up. Once the pizza arrived I made my way over to the boxes and began stacking my plate. I even made critical comments of some of the selections. I purposely honed in on the orders made by the office socialists. Out of a group of, say, 12, there were only three of them. As you can imagine, they were none too pleased over me rummaging through their pizza.
“But I just washed my hands,” I said.
“That’s not what I am talking about,” came the reply.
“Than what’s the big deal” I say as I’m sucking cheese off a piece of pepperoni.
“You didn’t put in for it. We didn’t buy that for you!” They snarled.
“But I want some pizza,” I say confused. “And you have some and I don’t. You’re going to make Obama cry. Besides, this is exactly what socialism is.”
Most everyone there thought it was amusing but one particular guy. He didn’t like it all and said that wasn’t what socialism is about.
I said sure it is. “You’re hoarding all the pizza and oppressing me, the guy who does not have any.”
I put the plate back and ate the food I paid for and brought with me. I belched proudly afterward. Like taking candy from a baby. It was one of my finest moments.