A chemistry professor in a large college that had some
exchange students in the class, noticed one of the male exchange students
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 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 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 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, 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 for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
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, economic stimulus packages, 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.
In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the
candidates are promising you!
"A government big enough to give you everything
you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." -Thomas
Jefferson-