Catching Wild Pigs

My sister sent this to me and I had to share

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 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