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 (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 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, so 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 ...

He said, "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, free medical, 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.

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 and your family when
the gate slams shut!

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big
enough to take away everything you have."

Thomas Jefferson