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Liberal College Students Eager to Redistribute Wealth Are Less Eager to Redistribute Hard Earned Grades

Do you really need a 4.0 GPA? Isn’t that GPA kind of—I don’t know—excessive? Wouldn’t life at your college be fairer and more just if you gave some of your unneeded grade points to another student—a less privileged student—who’s flunking Intro to Psych?

Hey, maybe that student came from a rough background. Maybe he didn’t have the same opportunities that you did. Why not help him out? We’re all compassionate here, are we not?

Via The Daily Caller:

The College Republicans at the University of California-Merced ask fellow students, who support raising taxes on the rich, if they would be willing to redistribute their GPAs. They don’t think it’s a good idea because they earned their grades.

Oh.

Liberal College Students Eager to Redistribute Wealth Are Less Eager to Redistribute Hard Earned Grades

You can watch the hypocrisy of these young and idealistic liberals in action below:

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  • p51d007
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:22pm

    It has been said, that you can pretty much be liberal until you get out of college. If by the time you are 30, if you haven’t converted yourself to being a conservative, you are hopelessly LOST.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:53pm

      Land of the lost = Madison WI

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    • Paulhgreenbay
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:30am

      You mean like the 30-somethings working at Starbucks that owe 50 grand in student loans for a worthless degree liberals. How about this one worked with a good little liberal 37yo at a major pizza delivery service. He owed 70 grand in student loans. He couldn’t get a job in teaching because of multiple supplying alcohol to underage citations. At this point he had a masters with no job prospects in site. He was continuing education to defer his loan payments. He blamed the man for his problems. He argued the fact that they were legal to vote so they should be able to drink. A grown up 38yo still going to house parties on campus. His level of arrogance was epic.That summer really gave me incite to what Rush had been trying to illustrate. Seems like the ones I worked with that rambled on about liberal ideals worked the least.

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  • jmgair
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:21pm

    And what exactly do any of these kids know about working hard or earning a living ?? Nothing

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  • swigs
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:19pm

    Failed liberal mentality………what’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine.

    Actually sounds more like some ex-wives I once knew.

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    • Jabber
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:36pm

      This always reminds me of The Toddler’s Rules of Possession:

      1. If I like it, it’s mine.

      2. If it’s in my hand, it’s mine.

      3. If I can take it from you, it’s mine.

      4. If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine.

      5. If it’s mine, it must NEVER appear to be yours in anyway.

      6. If I’m doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.

      7. If it looks just like mine, it is mine.

      8. If I saw it first, it’s mine.

      9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine.

      10. If it’s broken, it’s yours.

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    • swigs
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:20am

      That’s too funny…ROTF.

      Thanks :).

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  • FlyoverConservative
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:18pm

    Hilliarious!

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:17pm

    What his says about human nature is that I want to keep my stuff, but I am OK with giving your stuff away

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:31pm

      See I know what Effort went into getting my stuff so it has value, I have no problem with giving your stuff away becauseI I’am unaware of your effort so it has no value to me.

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  • Tractorboy
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:17pm

    come on, you need to interview the dope smoking guy on the skate board, then you will get the answer you were looking for.

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  • Old Sarge
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:16pm

    What is so truth telling is that their train of thought is right up the progressive line. Socialism is great for the promoter of it, as long as they think they will be “in charge”.

    They are “in charge” in the GPA hierarchy, not wage earners. They earned those grades and are “at the top” of their class. Take someone in control, like the Democrats on the national level. They are all for Socialism, because they are in charge. However, if you said “we are OK with Socialism, but you cannot be in charge. We are going to run your Socialist system, but you will be of the governed class, not governing.” They would want NO PART OF IT.

    Just wait till these little Socialist graduate and see what their little redistrubutive minds think when Uncle Sam hits em up for “everyone elses” share. They are hoodwinking themelves and are to naive to know it. Caught up in the Obamaura of it all.

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  • Maggie in Indiana
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:16pm

    The mush brains have a 4.0 and can’t see the same principle? Folks they ain’t dumb they are zoombies of the liberal machine. for no reason they can support taxing those who worked hard and want to keep more of it but would not themselves give up something as valuable in comparison. Manybe Mom and Dad should cancel the crdit cards and let them work their way through city college.

    These kids vote, now that’s scary.

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  • OldJohn
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:15pm

    Wonderful analogy. Bring this home to the libs with more personal “share the wealth” tidbits like this.

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  • dscon
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:15pm

    and mr “model 82awtf”
    yes this is news,………… to the libs
    dont want to give up what you’ve worked for?
    no one does!
    unless you are a true socialist.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:15pm

    smart idea to make them THINK

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  • miketheartist
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:13pm

    But, you can’t take mine!!!

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:13pm

    Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

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  • WILLIAM E.
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:13pm

    Great way to show reality !

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  • Earendil
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:13pm

    I heard of a professor who actually applied this to his classes grades…. on the first test, the class average was a B.

    By the end of the semester, the average was an F.

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  • QuranisBookofDeath
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:11pm

    This is the perfect example of why it’s nearly impossible to lose arguing with a liberal.

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  • LibertyGirl
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:11pm

    It isn’t that this is news. It is a very timely video. Young college students must learn the lessons of real life. It is never too soon to start challenging the utopian garbage that has been fed to them by their professors.

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  • rds1945
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:10pm

    OH, it’s different because taking money happens to someone else. We let these immature and inexperienced people Vote?

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  • JawaJam
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:09pm

    This does not surprise me, liberals want to share what other have but keep stuff they have earned

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  • Earendil
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:09pm

    That’s actually a great idea to get people to think about what they really believe.

    It’s called “exposing behavioral inconsistencies.”

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    • Jabber
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:30pm

      But you cannot use really big words like that to explain it to them either. LOL

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    • Ailene Wright
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:55am

      Now it is a concept that they can grasp. Finally.

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  • dirtydog1776
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:09pm

    Students are used to suckling at the public teat, what else would you expect them to say? dirtydog1776 on Twitter, I will bite your butt.

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  • uncleskull
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:08pm

    Apparently it‘s a lot easier redistributing what isn’t yours

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  • Jabber
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:07pm

    The future looks bright folks!!! Not…

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  • Ducky 1
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:06pm

    I need to share this with my Liberal brother who teaches! Wonder if he would share the wealth of good grades to those not doing as well in class.!

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:18pm

      I think my daughter’s school already does that, you know, the grading curve???? What stinks is she is a straight A student, and yes, she has been subject to the grading curve. Get this, she is only in 7th grade!!

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:10am

      Ask them if they are trying to get higher grades,so they can make higher pay…Why go to college if you can get = pay being a life-guard or toll-booth collector

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    • DemocracyisTyranny
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:40am

      Maybe your brother is actually smarter than you and can tell the difference between a fair system of grading, and the unfair system of capitalism.

      YOU SO STUPID

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:13am

      DemocracyisTyranny

      So when are you liberals going to demonize Obama for not paying his fair share of taxes? With his income level he should have paid the 35% rate on his income. He paid 27%. He must have had Tim the Tax cheat do his taxes for him…. You idiots just crack me up!

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:07am

      @DemocracyisTyranny
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:40am
      Maybe your brother is actually smarter than you and can tell the difference between a fair system of grading, and the unfair system of capitalism.

      YOU SO STUPID

      ——————————————————

      LOL, your screen name is showing your ignorance – we are not a Democracy fool, we are a Constitutional Republic, please get an education, and certainly keep your mouth shut, becuase you remove all doubt of your stupidity!

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:03pm

    This is News?

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:06pm

      Well it is the first recorded student thought since 1979, that’s news.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:10pm

      This news becasue they have gotten their first practical real life lesson on how their dreamland Utopia works.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:13pm

      This has been done over and over by conservative professors (the few) to show the failings of socialism.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:17pm

      Good analogy….I want to keep all of what I earn…It may not be as much as the next guy, but I sure as H*ll know how to use it better that government.

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:18pm

      Maybe it’s not news, but I never get tired of watching a couple of libs make fools of themselves.
      http://guerillatics.com

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    • SHASTADIANE1
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:18pm

      Yeah, it is NEWS, because it shows the hipocracy of the Liberal students who think redistribution of wealth. If I go out and work my butt off every day and sacrafice for my family, it pi$$es me off if my tax $$’s are going to some sit on their rear liberal who sits home and waits for his/her check or for someone else to support them. I have worked my whole life, and this little spoiled brats with little common sense want to take my money and give it to druggies and slugs who sit around and wait for their checks. I can tell you this, they don’t hurt anymore than I do, and they are not anymore “sick” than I am, but they have figured out how to work the system and think they are “smart” for doing so. I am sick of them. The college professors are indoctrinating them into this garbage, which is all part of this “New World Order”…what these liberals in the upper crust want is to make them the RICH folks and all the rest of us are serfs, sitting and waiting on our checks the government deals out…but what will happen when all us “working people” decide that the government is taking to much of our money and gee I think I’ll sit home and just wait for my check too? No one who works is paying in and there is no money left to GIVE to these slugs. Let me tell you, I know them personally…I have some in my own extended family. To many people out there will take anything someone will give them…That is how I see it.

      ME??? Never taken a dime of WELFARE…..food stamps…or any other assistance..OH WAIT…my kids did get free lunches at school one year, cause they WORKED in the cafeteria…

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    • Zer0
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:20pm

      @Model82A1,

      Yes, yes it is. Everyone laments where Progressivism begins and how it is propagated…well, here you have it. I still attend college and have to combat this nonsense all the time. It is amazing how many advocate wealth-redistribution, yet quickly chaffe under it when it is their wealth being redistributed. I’m heartened to see there is some resistance to the indoctrination.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:22pm

      @MODEL82A1
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:03pm
      This is News?
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Well, yeah!!!
      Old news.
      (Don’t tell me that college students — and they even identified the college, University of California-Merced — haven’t heard that one before!)

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:22pm

      Notice they would love to have money they never earned; yet their grades? NOPE, Nada, Nyet!!!

      So much for being consistent.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:25pm

      After they graduate from college, find a nice paying job, they will eat their words.

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    • DogWithA_Bone
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:25pm

      Wow! They would not want to give up what the earn…
      Hmmm…not different children but the exact same concept.
      Maybe this will be a wake up moment for some of them.
      Hey…one can only hope!

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:30pm

      I remember a story of a 3rd grade teacher ask her students if the rich should give 20 percent of all their money for the poor. All the kids thought it was a good idea, then she selected 10 percent of her classroom and told them if they did a few chores around the classroom, they would get 20 gumballs, the kids did the work then she gave them 16 gumballs. The kids said “where is the other 4, she said that was a tax and then handed out the rest of the gumballs to the kids that watched them. She asked again, do you think the rich should give 20 percent to the poor, over half of them changed their minds.

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    • truemedia
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:31pm

      Its may not be news if you think as these student. Why do they want a 4.0? For greater Pay!!! So why not do the same with there GPA for the unprivileged who can‘t go to school and has to work or has to take of someone and can’t have the benefits of the GPA these (snubish) students think its OK to hold on to what they have!!!

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:32pm

      I guarantee these skulls full of mush would gladly surrender their NEIGHBORS good grades. Do unto Thee, not unto Me. They‘ve been taught that the redistribution of someone else’s “wealth” (or grades) is a “Victimless Crime”.

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    • Chileno trucho
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:33pm

      You know what would be news? The first person to actually own the gun he uses as his profile picture… just saying…. you’re a hack.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:36pm

      heck yes they want to redistribute the wealth……that’s the socialist way of having someone else pay for their college, bills, and a good bank account to rely on when they graduate, too. The working class can keep on working to replenish their accounts. if they aren’t stopped, that will be the ‘new’ American way. End result? we will then have a nation of poor, none working people who will want to ‘redistribute’ the wealth from other countries.

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    • leftcoastslut
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:37pm

      like was said above this is a good path to follow, put it into perspective so that the “college aged people” can grasp it into reality and hopefully many of them will go, “Holy Cow!”

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    • theonefromabove
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:44pm

      Just your typical liberals.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:44pm

      Chileno trucho, pinche, pendejo. Sorry that I made you do some research to learn what my avatar is. I’m sure it made your greasy, bean-fart-brain hurt terribly. That being said, you’re welcome to come and meet my avatar anytime. I recommend you approach my home, uninvited and exhibit any kind of threatening behavior. Rest assured, it won’t take too much effort, you only need to get within about 1200 yards.

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    • MiketheTrucker
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:45pm

      Model82A1…..

      You’re missing the point. These kids are being “brainwashed” by the communists/socialists into believing that what you and I earn by our hard work is actually owned by the “collective”. This is a brilliant tactic of turning the situation into something these kids can relate to.

      KUDOS to these folks, perhaps NOW the college students will begin to see the lies for what they are.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:47pm

      Modle82A1, I think ShastaDiane1 is a bit miffed!

      @Shasta ~ Don’t blame you at all! We are all ripped over this!

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    • Michael61
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:49pm

      Yesterday, I commuted to work by subway.

      Two guys were playing guitar at subway station. One guy played pretty good guitar (I gave him a dollar), another guy was terrible.

      And imagine what? There was a pile of money in front of the first guy and only couple dollars in front of another.

      Can you have a better explanation how capitalism works?

      Contrast that with communism:

      A teacher in high school did an interesting experiment. Children believed that communism was a good idea, so he said “OK, let’s make communism in our classroom. Let’s combine all grades and split them equally”.

      The average grade before the beginning of “communism” was 80. After first test, the average became 75, then 72, then 70,… until everybody failed.

      You see, why would anybody work harder, if everybody got the same grade anyway???

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    • MiketheTrucker
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:52pm

      Typical liberal PIGS, when it comes time to put their money where their mouth is they can’t run away fast enough.

      Liberalism IS a mental disease!

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    • YouGottaProblemWithThat
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:13pm

      This is a great example of our youth finally getting it. They are not stupid, they just have not been pressed to think critically and extend a proposition out to its logical conclusion. Did you see the faces of those kids when they thought about the kid who partied and never studied getting the benefit of their hard earned GPA? You could see it in their faces. They got it! They so got it! Wow that felt good. Maybe there is a chance for this great experiment called America. God Bless America!

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    • restorehope
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:18pm

      Libs never think things through. Of course it is okay to share the wealth…..everyone else’s, though, but not your own. I am betting that we are looking at future conservatives once they are out in the real world. Nothing makes you appreciate your hard-earned money more than having someone try to take it away from you.

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    • tim55
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:19pm

      How about presenting it this way. You work for a high grade point average in the hopes of graduating at the top of the class. You also hope that this hard work will be rewarded with the opportunity to make good money. So, you get what you work for, and begin making great money, but along the way you pass a threshold set by progressives, and are forced to pay more of your money that you earned in order to give that money to somebody else, who has didn’t earn it for whatever reason. I guess you think that is OK. The fact is, as long as these students are in the position of getting free money via mommy and daddy, or government subsidies, they will stand firmly behind that until it comes out of their pockets. Then listen to them scream.

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    • Onisoffwetisdrysadishappy
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:33pm

      Just like government

      They want the US citizen to work and give the wealth to the world

      While government puts the wealth in their own pockets.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:39pm

      Wait until they are working for a income. It is so easy to be generous with other peoples labor.

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    • anniyan428
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:45pm

      What a stupid analogy. If the grades were redistributed, who cares? Everyone will sit at a B/C average. People shouldn’t being going to school to get the highest GPA (easily possible by taking Gym every semester) but to gain knowledge. At the end of the day, regardless of the GPA, the brightest students will have learned the most and the dumbest ones will have gained nothing. Isn’t that why people go to school, to learn? This is the problem with our society. If everyone were not so focused on grades (or in the real world ‘money’) people would actually be doing things for passion and intellectual enjoyment. It is reflected in the real world as well. I know plenty of my wealthy friends who don’t work as hard as many of the janitors at the local high school but sit in high rise offices and make phone calls all day and make five times the salary. Who is to judge what working hard is. Everyone works hard at their own job, some people are just not born gifted enough to complete higher order occupations (doctors, lawyers, etc.) but that doesn’t mean they should be punished for it by living near the poverty line. Back to this analogy, if the kids in all the schools across the country had the same grades, the ones with the most knowledge/talent would still succeed in some sense so I would gladly be in favor of grade distribution.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:49pm

      Wait until they find out that they are expected to pay back those student loans .. they were not a “gift” no matter what Obama says.

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    • encinom
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:52pm

      Of cause leave it to the GOP to under value education to support the rich. Question with taxes is are the upper 1% paying their fair share for the services that they receive? Thanks to W. and his cuts, the benefits have been shared by the rich, while the burdens and risks fall to the middle class and working class. W. started to unfunded wars and squandered the Clinton surplus. Again the GOP plan is to place additional burdens on the middle and working class. Its clear from their actions that the GOP operates for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.

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    • VTDave
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:54pm

      @Chileno trucho
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:33pm
      You know what would be news? The first person to actually own the gun he uses as his profile picture… just saying…. you’re a hack.

      Here ya go Chileno,,,,, I updated my profile just for you.

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    • caitthegreat
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:05am

      there’s a difference between assessment and earnings. plus, a student with a high GPA doesn’t have increased opportunities to take advantage of a student with a low GPA. i think this is a flawed comparison. i’m a student myself with parents who can easily afford my tuition. a portion of that tuition goes towards programs for students with financial difficulties. i’m fine with that. wouldn’t a better question be asking if the students are okay with a rise in tuition to help cover the costs of those who otherwise might not be able to afford to attend?

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:09am

      @SHASTADIANE1
      When I was an E-4 in the Air Force, back in the 80′s, my wife had to stop working for about 6 months when our child was born, I lived in base housing, but we barely were able to pay the bills, buy food and gas. I had a Sgt. who told me to go apply for food stamps, I worked a second job just so I didn’t have to do that.

      My Dad was laid off for a time and I can still remember him talking about how ashamed he was that we received food stamps for a short time.

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    • calebgs83
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:15am

      We need to reform our colleges…badly. When I was in college I took a mandatory class called “An introduction to American Education” and the entire course was devoted to American racism and white privilege…I am not exaggerating.

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    • seeker9
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:38am

      @caitthegreat
      Are you serious? Higher tuition will benefit the less affluent?

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    • seeker9
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:47am

      @anniyan428
      That’s the point! The grades are not yours to rdistribute. I think it would be much better just to decide what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours, and no one has a right to take what is mine and give it to some one else who may or may not have made any effort. Unfortunately, people are people and will seek to get the most for doing the least. Most will even be conditioned to believe that it is their right to be “taken care of”.

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    • BiteMePETA
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:49am

      Not a correct way of putting it.

      Actually they should suggest that the ones with bad grades get to vote whether or not they can take some of the A and B studies grade points…

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:58am

      The good news is… Most of them grow up and when reality teaches them a thing or two, they become adults.

      Need volunteers for Col. Allen West.
      Contact – editor@americasteapartynews.com
      Or http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com

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    • underconsideration
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:56am

      It’s an interesting analogy, and to a point it’s fair. There are two distinctions that bear noting: 1. hypothetically, every student could be getting a 4.0. Finance works out to a much more zero-sum game, meaning in order for me to get a 4.0 20 people need to get a 1.5 or something like that. If you asked someone “if you have 5 grade points, how do you think they’re best split”, and they said i want 4 and they can have 1, that would be a better demonstration. 2. I think most of those students would agree to assisting poor students, and would be willing to give up some time to help poorer students to do better. It doesn’t mean people are selfish, it just means people don’t see why they need to share an infinite resource.

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    • jfriedri
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 3:26am

      It may be the only way to get through to these kids who have up to this point NEVER been taxed substantially for their efforts. Grades == Income! Very good comparison. You work hard for both and both should never be given to those who don’t deserve it.

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    • foobear
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 3:42am

      @Showtime: I’ve been to UC Merced before. It’s about the size of a high school with some apartments nearby… in the middle of nowhere.

      It’s not even in the bustling metropolis of Merced. :p

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    • GayDem4Beck
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 6:55am

      The other points they missed in this are as follows:
      - How do the Dems plan to pay off the debt ? = Tax the rich…
      - How do the Dems plan to cover Social Security ? = Tax the rich…
      - How do the Dems plan to cover Medicaid/Medicare ? = Tax the rich…
      - How do the Dems plan to balance the budget ? = Tax the rich…
      - How do the Dems plan to cover Obamacare ? Tax the rich…

      I see a pattern here and eventually they would run out of everyone else’s money. The Dems are creating the war on classes and there plan is to make everyone the same (get rid of the middle and upper classes).

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 7:48am

      You got to laugh at all these hypocrits who keeps saying that it’s different…here what‘s different it’s their grade is something they earned and since wealth redistribution is redistributing something someone else earned they fine with it. some could argue that alot of rich people are born into money so they didn‘t have to work so hard but then some could argue that some peopel are more with more intelligence and don’t have to work as hard for their grade as well…. In the end we see the true color of these hypocrits and I coould watch hours of these people skirmingh to justify their hording of their earned GPA from the less advantage while supporting the redistribution of money that others worked hard and sacrificed to earn.

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    • Rearden Steel
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 7:56am

      Classic.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:01am

      eeeeeeeeeeeaawwwwwwwwwww, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww, squeel, squeel, snort grunt grunt eeeeeeaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww eeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelll squeeeeeeeeeeeeell

      I mean that is all I heard from the liberal bobble heads…

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:10am

      Liberal Hypocrits make me want to up-chuck…I am proud of our young conservatives – GOOD JOB guys, I applaud your BRILLIANCE in exposing these two faced donkeys! Liberal progressives have no idea what the real truth is, they live in a fantasy world, they bend the truth, they say one thing and mean another and talk out of both sides of their ugly mouths!

      God wants people to stand on their own two feet, work hard, love each other, provide for themselves and have a belief in Him through Jesus Christ – is that so hard to understand? There are people who need our help, those with mental and physical disabilities, but if you are able minded and abled bodied you fend for yourself!

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:33am

      encinom
      Posted on April 20, 2011 at 11:52pm
      Of cause leave it to the GOP to under value education to support the rich. Question with taxes is are the upper 1% paying their fair share for the services that they receive? Thanks to W. and his cuts, the benefits have been shared by the rich, while the burdens and risks fall to the middle class and working class. W. started to unfunded wars and squandered the Clinton surplus. Again the GOP plan is to place additional burdens on the middle and working class. Its clear from their actions that the GOP operates for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.

      ————————————————————–

      LOL, you don’t have a brain in your bobble head. Clinton stole the money from the Social Security system to balance the budget, and he was forced to balance the budget by a Repulican majority, it‘s really too bad you don’t know the facts at all. And how do you explain the top 2% of taxpayers pay 40% of ALL income taxes? And the top 10% pay 70% of income taxes, then the bottom 40% pay 0% in taxes, as being fair? There is NO HOPE for you encinom, you are a hapless, hopless waste of time, and there is no amount of explaining this to you as you have been co-opted by the progressive liberal lie, I really do feel sorry for you. WE THE PEOPLE are coming for you and your kind, we’re going to VOTE your communist leaders OUT of office and there is not a damn thing you can do about it – except to revolt, and I hope you do! The redistribution of wealth days are hanging by a thread, and you know it, and are desparate to cling to the free ride – time for talk is over – actions at the ballot box are going to squash you like a grape – say bye bye Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Waxman, Boxer, and all of your communist friends, you’ll have to find a day job at McDonnalds, LOL!!!!!!!

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 8:56am

      caitthegreat

      I almost fell out of my chair by your spoiled brat statement, “My parents can easily afford My tuition”. Maybe your outlook would be different if YOU got off YOUR lazy a$$, got a JOB to pay YOUR own tuition! You had better stay in school so that one day you will learn how to pull your head out of YOUR BUTT! I guess the saying is still true for some of you. If your not a liberal and your 20 you have no heart. If your a liberal and your 40 you have no brain!

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:00am

      anniyan428

      Let me guess…..you were/are one of the dumb ones in school.

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    • effenmontero
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:18am

      dood, this is funny

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:23am

      Brains full of mush!

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    • Class2000Generation
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:36am

      This is news because it’s at their level. They don’t have their own “wealth” they’ve earned ~ this is a great analogy. Posting this for my young lib friends to see.

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    • Metroiddad69
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:24am

      This is news, what the students should have titled the piece the true meaning of SELFISHNESS. Being selfish in one area and not another still makes you a selfish person, we all are. The students kept saying that the analogy was not valid because it involved grades not money, I beg to differ. Being selfish is being selfish, that is what the authors was trying to correlate in their argument. How can one be selfish about their grades but be generous with someone else’s earnings? That to me is selfish. Yes, this is news because it opens the door to how educators in colleges sway the opinions of young people, by keeping them in the mindset of immature thinking on life. It is immature to look at someone else’s situation in life and covet what they have because you or someone else do not have it. If students who were failing in college formed a group to really ask for other peoples points from their GPA, what would these professors say? I would venture to guess they would say that those students were thinking in an unrealistic and selfish manor, but they will not see the beam of it in their own eyes while they are teaching.

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    • sclasson
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:25am

      Well this is a eye opener,if they want people who work hard for their money to give it to those who sit on the porch,then why is it they don’t want to redistribute their grades.
      we think they should be put in jail if they don’t redistrubute their grades,this is only fair,just because other students sit on the porch and sleep that is no reason not to redistrubute others grades so that they get at least a B

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    • Truthislight
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:50am

      Bitemepeta is right. Petitioner should tell students he only needs a few more signatures to have a vote on redistribution of grades and the majority of students are for it. Now that would be fun to watch!

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 12:02pm

      OK this was a good example HOWEVER.. the arguments for it could have been better..FIRST they should have pointed out how IF someone has a HIGH GPA they are obviously working TO HARD.. therefore.. they should NOT keep those grades they should be given to those THAT DON‘T WANT to work as hard and would prefer to PARTY therefore don’t have the same discipline as you or believe studying is a waste of their time..
      Than when they say NO ask them IF they plan on getting a good paying job BECAUSE they worked so hard on their GPA .. I do beleive they would answer YES.. Than ask IF they will work hard? again a YES.. THAN ask them IF they think someone with a lower GPA.. should qualify to make as much as they would doing a lessor job? IF they answer YES than ask them WHY they are studying so hard cause it won’t make a difference.. .. IF they answer NO than ask them WHY when they are MAKING a nice pay check the government should TAKE their money and give it to the guy with the LOW GPA who partied and didn’t study .. they are LOSING the connection between earning GRADES and WHY they want to earn those good grades.. and what the government wants to do with the money they earn from the job they are studying hard to get…WAKE THEM UP

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    • formerschlubclubber
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 1:07pm

      This is GREAT NEWS! These kids are finally on to something! When people talk about social justice, they are all about talking about money. But the ONE thing that is equal for everyone is TIME! It takes time to earn good grades, just like it takes time to earn money. When will some leftist explain to me how my husband working 30 hours a week for the “have nots” (because yes, that is how long he works in his almost 60 hour work week before he actually gets to “bring home the bacon” for US) while some folks only have to work an hour a week for the “have nots” is FAIR? Screw the money, I want my husband back! Time is precious. They have no right to it, yet they take, take, take it and have the balls to call it justice!

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    • What Would Jesus Vote
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:21pm

      it should be more like someone with a 2.4 GPA getting points from someone with a 17,000.6 GPA.

      how can you call yourselves followers of Christ when you worship money?

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    • DirectlyUnPCman
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:58pm

      Yep, these guys have no life experience to temper their liberal thinking. To even glimps the birth of comprehension is worthy of notice. Why do you think Obama is always talking to kids? They dont know anything yet. They are easily excited and motivated in the wrong direction.

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    • docvet
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:59pm

      The difference is obvious. Me = unfair. Some one else – sock it to ‘em. Same thing as “My neighbor loses his job, its a recession; I lose my job, its a depression”.

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    • desertspeaks
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 2:59pm

      Yeah these students are liberals UNTIL the shoe is on the other foot.
      They should put the question to the top ten percent students with a 4.0 gpa that the other 90% of students who do not have a 4.0 gpa are voting to forcibly take points from the top ten percent, JUST LIKE INCOME TAXES,.. BECAUSE IT’S THE ONLY FAIR THING TO DO! Those poor underachievers need those gpa points and anyone who thinks this isn’t fair is a RACIST or just to stupid to understand. RIGHT?? LOL

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    • anOpinion
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:04pm

      I love this video, its such a great analogy.

      For many students and the left, its much easier to give away other peoples money to keep things fair, but when its something THEY have worked for (grades) then its an entirely different story.

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    • stubbs71
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 4:15pm

      I love this College Republican group. I donate to this group because I think the conservative messages they’re communicating to the younger voting block, is critical in getting ready for the 2012 elections. Keep up the good work in pointing out hypocrisy.

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    • swolves
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 6:32pm

      My daughter (15) is a partime cashier. Our agreement is that she can keep 50% of her checks, the rest has to go into her savings. When she got her 1st paycheck, she nearly lost her mind when I explained the deductions and what that money was used for. She now has a very definite opinion about redistribution of wealth…and it all started with a $7.00 deduction. If I had given her $65.00 and then asked for 7 back, she would have never learned the lesson. .

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    • SLARTIBARTFAST
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 6:35pm

      I haven’t read the comments so forgive me (or not) if I’m repeating a point: This argument is Absolutely Brilliant!!! Taken further is that better gpa’s lead to better colleges, better jobs and more money. I’m going to teach my high schooler this argument tonight (it won ‘t take long). If you drive home their hypocrisy enough in an intelligent, and polite, manner as they did, it will hit home. Maybe we are getting too old to think of these things sometimes, as simple as their logic is. It sure does give me a little more hope for the future. WELL DONE GUYS!!!

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    • anniyan428
      Posted on April 21, 2011 at 6:54pm

      @blackhawk1

      Well if you really want to know, I have been accepted to Johns Hopkins Medical School to study radiology, so no, I am not one of the “dumb” ones

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    • tomtom1983
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:49am

      anniyan428 your comment was completely moronic in much the same way as your blast to another commentator. First students in fact care a great deal about their GPA and for good reason, their GPA represents a multitude of accomplishments earned through hard work and commitment. Second the very idea of stealing from one and given to another is in itself “unfair”. Only a liberal mind would surmise the process to which one steals and redistribute wealth or even one’s GPA to anyone for any reason is aligned with the democratic process.

      That would create a serious violation to the constitution, meaning you would have to work harder while they hardley work. This is not compatible to a democracy, it also angers me to hear the ignorance of these idiotic students in tandem with hypocrisy.

      For life to exist there must also be competition, it’s this competitive drive that forces the best and the brightest this world has to offer, so I ask how can life evolve and grow should all things be exactly the same while lacking encouragment to be better? We would become stagnant and stuck. It is entirely unjust to steal from people and then take that stolen property and give it to someone to which it doesn’t belong.

      Liberals are so contrived and myopic.

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    • dawghowse
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:05am

      @M82A1, I tested and carried a M82M when they first came out. Before that I was carrying a M21 and other nice toys! Long distance is the next best thing to being there!

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    • What Would Jesus Vote
      Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:53pm

      this comparison is a false equivalent. it‘s not like we’re all in a GPA point pool where some get more than others. 4.0 is the finite amount. it’s the maxium. there is no maxium on income and we ARE all pulling from the same pool. if these guys had been taking an increasingly larger share of the finite amount of GPA points then this would make sense.

      but it doesn’t have to make sense. it is red meat for the red state dummies. it’s a football cheer.

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    • tinanettles
      Posted on April 23, 2011 at 1:49pm

      This is news because it shows a highly enlightening snapshot of the faulty reasoning common among uninformed college students.

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    • ralphhouzen
      Posted on April 26, 2011 at 10:22am

      gpa isn’t used to buy goods and services like money, gpa is a gauge of success, money is a gauge of work, redistribution’s purpose is to help make the middle & low class more comfortable into making purchases aka fuel the economy.the whole nation has to be able to pay their bills before they can spend money on things they don’t need (ex. baseball tickets, sunglasses, cool shoes).companies that sell novelties & niche products are the ones that get hit first, these companies need their market back….redistribution is designed to help all in the long run, a everyone benefits when people start buying comfortably again… gradually all companies benefit, a rising economy, and when this happens the rich bank the biggest because they own the companies and move the products… not all of rich people have a huge income tax because their income isn’t big annually (they inherited money, hit big one year or two years with a good one time opportunity/deal, lotto)……….which shows.not every rich person earns their money by hard work….. some people work hard with multiple jobs and struggle……the title of this article is so self-righteous.

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