CATCHING PIGS

 CATCHING PIGS

        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." -