On 20/02/2011 10:24 AM, Ziggy® wrote:

CATCHING PIGSThere was a chemistry professor in a large college that had
some exchange students in the class. One day a student 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 cuts, 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
lunch2) and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you
cheaper than you can do it yourself.3)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.4)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!

Wow. Good analogy.

And think, the kept piggies don't even know what they miss being stuck
in the pen all day. Won't be long before government tells the little
piggies how to bread, if they they are allowed to.

Glad I am not as a penned up piggy as most.

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Socialism is a great ideal as long as someone else pays for it. And when
no one is left to pay for it, they all can share nothing.