\nCATCHING PIGS
\n\tThere 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, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.<\/p>\n
\tThe professor asked the young man what was the matter.<\/p>\n
\tThe 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 communist regime.<\/p>\n
\tIn the midst of history, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"<\/p>\n
\tThe professor thought it was a joke and waited for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.<\/p>\n
\t"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 corn. <\/p>\n
\tWhen they are used to coming every day, you put fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to that, 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.<\/p>\n
\tThe pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. <\/p>\n
\tSuddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.<\/p>\n
\tSoon they go back to eating the corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."<\/p>\n
\tThe 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 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 – a little at a time.<\/p>\n
\tOne should always remember two truths:<\/p>\n
\t1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is paying for it<\/p>\n
\t2) When you begin to think that having your government provide for you and make your decisions is okay, realize that you have also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.<\/p>\n
\tIf 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.<\/p>\n
\tIf you think the carefree ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email.<\/p>\n
\tBut God help us all when the gate slams shut.<\/p>\n
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