Catching Wild Lost Pigs

There was a Chemistry professor at a large
college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class
was in lab the Professor noticed one of the young 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 you toward Communism/Socialism and

keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental tax credit for

unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to

plant crops (CRP), welfare, free drug programs, free medical care, etc.

while you continually lose your freedoms in other areas
- just a little at a time.

One should always remember there is no such thing as a free Lunch!

Also remember a politician will never provide a service for you or to you cheaper than

you can do it yourself. If you think a free ride is essential to your way of life then you will

probably IGNORE this REAL story rather than forward it, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

THE END

Government Political articles for the American Working People