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.
But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!
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