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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!
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