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CATCHING WILD PIGS

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 (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 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 that are used to
the free corn start to come through the gate to eat, and then 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, etc, etc, etc. While we continue to 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.

So, 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 on to 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 you when the gate slams shut!


In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the
candidates are promising you - just maybe, you will be able to tell who
is about to slam the gate on America.


'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough
to take away everything you have.' Thomas Jefferson

Excellent!...

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That is why I am afraid to vote for the wonderful things the Democrats have planned for us. On the other hand, I don't want an unfettered corporate world to run my life either.
What we need is a viable third party. I know it's been said before. But the more competition the better.

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This true in business & politics

What a great article. it is scary to think that we are going down that road.

Feh. Wish I had found this earlier...

While we continue to lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.

What "freedoms" are we supposedly losing BECAUSE OF the corn being put on the ground?

Quite frankly, I see quite a few "freedoms" being lost. Our privacy being sacrificed in order to tell us that we are safe.
Our access to the farmer's house (the white house) to see what he's been up to is being routinely cut off and we're told it's none of our business.
Personal freedom for abortion, or to protest, being eroded away.
firstamendmentcenter.org: news

But I really don't see the connection to the "corn" on the ground.
And while the article gives examples of what it considers "corn", it completely fails to explain what "fences" it is talking about...

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.

I think one of the things that the article fails to acknowledge is that while a person may be able to BUY something "cheaper", there are a LOT of Americans that do NOT HAVE the capability to "buy" some of these things in the first place.

For some people, the REAL LIFE question will be "Can I actually get these items for cheaper than what it will cost me in taxes?"
And when that question becomes NO for many people, the choice becomes more clear.

This isn't an issue of "wild hogs" finding food out in the wild, or getting fed in the fence.
For many, it's an issue of NOT getting the food out in the wild, or being able to get some of those options in some shape or form.
And as long as people keep glossing over that distinction, the rhetorical "freedom" TO DO WITHOUT loses value...

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