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." -
