Cliff Stearns: “I keep hearing from that side of the aisle, they talk about fairness and equality. Let me ask them to listen carefully…”

“I keep hearing from that side of the aisle, they talk about fairness and equality. Let me ask them to listen carefully to an example of a classroom of students about to take a final exam. Some students worked hard all year, were well prepared for the exam, while other students routinely chose to blow off homework assignments and skip most of the reading. I think most school teachers today recognize that scenario. The students who worked hard all year, surprise, surprise, almost always do better on the final exam than those who goofed off. But what if the exam results were tallied and then the equality police, on this side of the aisle, came in and said ``That's not fair. That's not equal. We need to have equality''? So they go in, the equality police come in and take a few points from those that scored the highest and give it to those that scored at the bottom. Suddenly they declare, ``Then, that is fair.'' My question is, ``Fair to whom?''”