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 Prof 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 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, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the
gate to eat the free corn, 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.
All of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the
future of democracy in America
