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Catching Wild Pigs
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in
the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor 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, who 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 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, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do it yourself.
Also, 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!
'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough
to take away everything you have".
Thomas Jefferson
My Reply to All:
This is just so wrong on so many levels. Since the '70s we've had less and less government oversight and more and more de-regulation. Where's it gotten us? You really like the way things are?
In 1970 the top 1% wealthiest people owned 13% of all the real estate, stocks and bonds in the country. Today they own more than 80% of it all. Did they work harder to get it? Stay later at the office? Become more productive? Nope, your government gave it to them. That mean nasty socialist government has systematically robbed the middle class and given it to the likes of Paris Hilton. People, meet Fascism. Fascism, meet the people.
See, here's the problem with people who belive government doesn't work--they make damn sure it won't! Who in their right mind would hire an employee who told you up front that he can't do the job, that the job isn't worth doing and that it shouldn't even exist in the first place? Well, that's exactly what you do every time you vote for a Conservative.
And it's patently untrue that private enterprise is always cheaper than government provided services. Otherwise you'd hire your own police, your own fire department, build your own highways and buy your own military. How come nobody bitches about the socialized army or police or fire department? They all seem to work pretty damn well don't they? Except the military, oh! but that's right, Rumsfeld outsourced everything he could to private contractors!!!! As a result we've electrocuted 120 soldiers in shoddy housing built by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE and poisoned thousands with untreated sewage in the drinking water provided by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE and paid Blackwater security guards $75,000 a year to do what a $25,000 spec 4 does. Yeah, that PRIVATE ENTERPRISE is one hell of a bargain, ain't it!
This reminds me of the 90 year old widow who lives next door to me. Her only income is Social Security, her only health care is Medicare and I worked hard to get her a $25,000 government grant to renovate her home because it was literally falling down. Her only nutrition is from Meals on Wheels. She constantly tells me that people should just take responsibility for themselves. If she really believed that she'd take responsibility for her husband gambling away a small fortune and leaving her so broke that we neighbors have to take care of her. If not for these programs, every one created by a Democratic administration, she'd be living under a bridge but she votes Republican every time. She says Democrats are all socialists.
No, I won't be forwarding that Wild Pig email to anyone.
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