On 01/07/2011 3:26 PM, John H wrote:
...I suppose it would work pretty well...

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 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, 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."

Interesting..

Used to catch quail using a similar technique. Illegal, but we were kids. Now I know better.
Besides, corn has gotten pretty expensive.

Sounds like big government story. Give everyone a small refund,
deduction or a little bonus while talking much more. Maybe even a small
welfare check. After time the sheep expect this and feel comfortable.
So feed them more government services.

Then one day the sheep wake up and find they have lost their economic
freedom. They are then just there for the fleecing. And no way out as
they no longer have the economic freedom or confidence to do otherwise.

As the government takes too much fleece, the sheep get sick from bug
bites and cold. Fewer new sheep, and sickly sheep don't replace the
sheep lost...making a smaller less productive herd. So government
fleeces them even harder. Eventually making every sheep sickly.

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Government isn't the solution to the bad economy, it is the problem.
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In Debt We Trust!
-- Obama and the democrats, world record in debt incursion.