Catching Pigs

[RiverStyx]

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 exemptions, 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 two truths:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is

paying for it

2) and when you begin to think that having your government

provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you’ve

also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.

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!

[puff26]

looks like we are to far gone.but thanks at least now I can go catch me a pig.

[vern]

It,s called WELFARE son- That is how the system gets you---- once you learn to suck the hind teat then you will ALWAYS be there.... Welfare was put in place for single mothers as a way of getting over the hump- meaning from one job to another. It was just a helping hand. What happened next was people got in the way. They took a biblical approach and desamatited it---You got to many people saying this should be this way and that way- Like Hunting eg--- PETA---- I say kill it before you Grill it-- PETA says dont touch it---- see what happens? I say Veggies are good with a de3cent chunck of meat -- people coma along and say being a veg is better... see what happens - Things get taken out of context------WELFARE was the same- ---------TRUE STORY---Yesterday my wife and I were coming out of a restaurant and this man (i use that lightly) comes up to us with to balls and says --- I f you give me a cigarett i will jugle for you ---I looked at him and asked if he was a dog. He got upset and said NO- i SAID --dogs do tricks. -- He then got angry ---I told him to get a job and that he was the kind of lazy person who is taking our Great country down the tubes. I also said that is why His parents probably kicked him out because he was lazy. H edidnt say a word. He almost cried. I told him to starve because he wasnt hungary enough to work. He said i didnt know what i was taking about. I asked if he knew what WELFARE was and he said yes-- I said that there is the problem. I asked what would happen if they took away WELFARE- he said they wouldnt -- I couldnt believe my ears. I watched him as other patrons were coming and going and he didnt say a word to them. When i left he said he had a job and i asked where - he said here. i juggle and i get paid. My wife said DRIVE the car. Im glad she was with me----- iwould be wrighting from a CELL PHONE ---- ---WELFARE HAS DESTROYED our land ----IMHO-Vern