CATCHING PIGS

THIS IS THOUGHT PROVOKING.

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange

students in the class.

One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man,

an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back

hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him

he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting

communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's

government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange

question.

He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a

suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it

and begin to come every day to eat the free corn.

"When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of

the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence,

they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

"They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have

all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. "The pigs,

which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that

free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around

inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free

corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the

woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening

in America .

The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps

spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental

income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies,

dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine,

drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a

time.

One should always remember two truths:

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to

provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you see that all of this wonderful government "help" is a problem

confronting the future of democracy in America , you might want to send this

on to your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will

probably delete this email.

But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!

Quote for today: "The problems we face today are there because the people

who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living."

--Anonymous

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