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 professor noticed one young man who kept rubbing his back as if it hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was wrong. The student told him he had an old bullet wound received while protesting the communist government in his native country. In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
When the professor, thinking it was a joke, asked for the punch line, the young man shook his head and said,
"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 that are used to the free corn start to come through the gate to eat, and then 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 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, welfare, medicaid, drugs benefits, etc. Meanwhile they build the fence.
We take the free corn not realizing we are slowly losing our freedom.
Two quotes are appropriate here:
The professor asked the young man what was wrong. The student told him he had an old bullet wound received while protesting the communist government in his native country. In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
When the professor, thinking it was a joke, asked for the punch line, the young man shook his head and said,
"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 that are used to the free corn start to come through the gate to eat, and then 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 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, welfare, medicaid, drugs benefits, etc. Meanwhile they build the fence.
We take the free corn not realizing we are slowly losing our freedom.
Two quotes are appropriate here:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
-- Gerald Ford (12 August, 1974 address to a joint session of Congress)
"When you get in bed with government, you're going to get more than a good night's sleep"
-- Ronald Reagan (10 November, 1977 speech at Hillsdale College)
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