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Catching Wild Pigs
Feb 21, 2009 | 9:44AM
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 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, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, 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 Communism/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. while we continually lose our freedoms- just a little at a time.

One should always remember 'there is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, 'you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to question the motives of the candidates. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably chose the Hillary or Obama plan, or simply pick one of those RINO's that are running. But God help you when the gate slams shut!

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arlette Read arlette Graverage
February 21, 2009 @ 1:47PM
 
this said it all,nothings free!!
motherpython Read motherpython Gold Member Grabtastic!
February 21, 2009 @ 4:23PM
 
yep, nothing is free...
wingsofadove00 Read wingsofadove00 Grabiocre
February 22, 2009 @ 12:47PM
 
And then there's the old saying, "what goes around will come back around" to those who continually take yet never give.
We cannot go around judging other for their actions, but do what is right in our own hearts and maybe they will see the good in us.
Nice story, thank you.

dsmasincuty Read dsmasincuty Grabnormal
February 27, 2009 @ 12:43AM
 
altho i agree theres no such thing as a free meal. i dont think thats whats happening to our country. we have lost so many companies to over seas theres not enough work for all the people. thank our new president for putting an end to tax breaks for over seas. mayb our factories will stay here. he alo sign to stop tax cuts for the farmer to leave his fields empty. he has done more for the country then bush done in 8yrs.

n i was worried about him being elected. i hope he continues to do what he is doing.
God bless the USA

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