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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. 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
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.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to
take away everything you have"
Thomas Jefferson