Bluedevil
10-14-2007, 07:58 PM
This is a good email I was sent.
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 (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.
>
> By now 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
> Communism/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,You can never hire someone to 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,
> If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then
> you will probably delete this email, but God help us when the gate
> slams shut!
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 (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.
>
> By now 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
> Communism/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,You can never hire someone to 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,
> If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then
> you will probably delete this email, but God help us when the gate
> slams shut!