The schools e-mail system would not save copies of messages, all the transcripts would have been lost, the kids couldn’t access the internets because the tubes were down (or full of commercial trucks) and the dean of the law school would be refusing to respond to queries from the Board of Education.

Don't worry about plagiarizing, it’s already been done above. This went around my e-mail circles a year ago. I do, however, still agree with the lesson.

Typical Liberal tactic you are using by trying to obfuscate the meaning of the story.

The government programs I had in mind are Welfare, Prescription Drugs, PBS, NPR, or any tax dollars that go to people too lazy to work or better themselves. In fact, the one war that we should stop supporting is the war on poverty. Our tax dollars have been used to support the "poor" (read: lazy) for years and years, and yet there are still poor people everywhere. The war on poverty has obviously been lost a long time ago, so why are we still funding it?

I didn't mention hard work in my post, but since you brought it up, I consider hard work as:

Finishing High School and getting a diploma. Staying out of trouble by not giving in to the thug-rap mentality. Going to college if that suits you and graduating in 4-6 years with a degree while working a part time job.

After graduating, going out and proving your value in the free marketplace of ideas by working hard at what ever vocation you choose. A person doesn't have to make lots and lots of money in their profession, just enough to support themselves and their family and not having to suck from the gubberment teet.

“...the term “democrat” originated as an epithet and referred to ‘one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.’”

I think you are a better obfuscater than I!

In the first place, one student giving part of their grade to another is impossible. Lot of obfuscation there! It is not impossible to share!

What happens is, if the student's daddy buys the college a library wing, then the 2.0 is automatically raised to 3.0! Like Bush did!

For Pete's sake $nagedollarSnit1, it's an analogy, we know you can't do that for real, if you're that dumb you must wear loafers, because you're to dumb to tie laces.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

"the poor you have with you always"...does that mean they have ALWAYS been "lazy" {by your definition}? And what would you do to make them "un-poor"? Keep the faith.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I had a professor that said, "the slow-learners you have with you always" and I would suspect they make up a large proportion of the poor. To make them un-poor....teach them a skill and pay them enough to support themselves.