cornbread
05-08-2008, 10:55 PM
THIS IS TRULY THOUGHT PROVOKING. TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT AND SEND IT ON
TO THOSE THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTH SENDING TO, AS I HAVE DONE.
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 t h e 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
inAmerica. 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!
The only thing I can add to this is a question for you......Which
candidates out there are most eager to spread around the feed corn, and what
might their motives be? Think about it.
TO THOSE THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTH SENDING TO, AS I HAVE DONE.
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 t h e 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
inAmerica. 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!
The only thing I can add to this is a question for you......Which
candidates out there are most eager to spread around the feed corn, and what
might their motives be? Think about it.