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[Westley Annis]

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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! 

 Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam the
gate 
on America . 

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to
take 
away everything you have" 

 
    Thomas Jefferson