THIS IS THOUGHT 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 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 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 outnumbered by those who
vote for a living." -