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THIS IS TRULY THOUGHT PROVOKING. TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT AND SEND IT ON.
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.
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.
