[StBernard] Wild Pigs

[Westley Annis]

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 (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 was 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 g overnment 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