CATCHING PIGS

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 wh ile 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 the 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 co rn 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 to your friends.
 If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life,  God help you when the gate slams shut! 

 The only thing I can add to this is a question for you......  Which candidates out there are most anxious to spread around the feed corn, and what might their motives be? 

Think about it. 

A very wise man said “A government that can give you everything you need is also strong enough to take away everything you have”