Catching Wild Pigs

I just got this in an email. Interesting analogy.

 

“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 of the
exchange students who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his
back  hurt.  The professor asked the young man what the matter was.
 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 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 every day 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, 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 was exactly what he was seeing
happening in America.

 ’The government keeps pushing the people 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, etc,  etc. while the people continue to lose their freedom -
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.’

I hope you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a
problem  confronting the future of democracy in America. God help us when

the gates slam shut!  Listen closely to what the
politicians are promising  you – just maybe you will be able to tell who
is 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