"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
(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, which 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
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, 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 "There is no such thing as
a free Lunch!"
Also, 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 are a conservative. If you think the free ride is essential
to your way of life then you are a liberal Democrat, but God
help you when the gate slams shut!