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
prof 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 everyday 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
cuts, 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 you
when the gate slams shut!
