Posted by
paddy o'furniture on Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:51:55 PM
A chemistry professor in a large college had some
exchange students in the class. One day while the class
was in the lab the professor noticed one young man
(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 government.
In the midst of his story he looked at theprofessor 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
punchline. The young man said this 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 use to
coming every day, you put a fence down one side
of the place where they are used to coming. When they get use
to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you
put up another side of the fence. They get use 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,
who are used to the free corn, start to come through the
gate to eat, you 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. The young man then told the professor that is
exactly what he sees happening to America . The government
keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free
corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental
income, tax credit for unearned income, 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: There is no such
thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a
service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
Also, 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, butGod help you
when the gate slams shut!
A government big enough to give you
everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you
have.
Thomas Jefferson