I'm on vacation, but this is the top viewed post of all time, October 14, 2007 and still right on:
Don't know who wrote this, but it's hard to beat....
No
Free lunch 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, 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.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
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