Catching Pigs

[DanCookson]

CATCHING PIGS
I thought this was truly thought provoking!
Dan


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 credits 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.

[Warph]

Amen to that, Dan!  Very thought provoking!  Maybe it's just me but, gosh....
that sure sounds like Obama's Political Platform 

[flo]

I have read this many times and it still holds true.

[Teresa]

Yep~~