h/t CN and CG
THIS ISTHOUGHT PROVOKING
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.
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 onto your friends. If you
think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably
delete this email. But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!
Quote for today:
"The problems we
face today are there because the people who work for a living are now out
numbered by those who vote for a living." -- *Anonymous*
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