Catching Wild Pigs

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

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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 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; 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 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, a politician will never 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 pass it along. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably ignore it, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

Clearly we are a nation divided. The enemies of freedom are currently in charge. They seek the eradication of those elements of the Constitution that guarantee freedom to the people. They seek, instead, to create a slave class of government dependents sufficiently large to sway all future elections.
What shall those of us who are committed to freedom do about this threat?
We cannot rely upon our party’s elected officials. They are cowards.
We cannot rely upon our government. It has become our sworn enemy.
We must return to the spirit that birthed this once great nation. We must rely upon ourselves.
We are the source of freedom.
We are the hope for our country.
We are the ones who stand in the breech.
We are the ones who pledge our wealth, our lives and our sacred honor to the cause of liberty.
We must learn ways to fight and defeat this abomination that seeks to engulf us.
We must restore our nation to its former glory.

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