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.

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 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 you when the gate slams shut!

Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are

about to slam the gate on America .

"A government big enough to give you everything you want,

is big enough to take away everything you have."

~~~~  by Thomas Jefferson