Sunday, August 5, 2012

TRULY THOUGHT PROVOKING, The Student Understands


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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.

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