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
- 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
, watch out when the gate slams shut!
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