CATCHING PIGS

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 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 in 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, 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 litt le at a time.
One should always remember two truths:
1) There is no such thing as a free lunch
2) 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!

I usually get them to the trough with free beer and lies about how beautiful they are.




Seriously, good read.  Very true.