DeserTBob, the wild pig

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 prof 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
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, 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 cuts, 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 you when the gate slams shut!