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Catching wild pigs

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:25 am
by XMEN Gambit
From an email.
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A chemistry professor at a large university had some
exchange students in his class. One day in the lab the Prof 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 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 along one side of the place where they come to eat. When they get used to the fence, they begin to come 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, you slam the gate on them and trap 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 . The current government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco, steel, & oil subsidies, dairy & coal subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms & protections 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.

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:41 pm
by TimberWolf
So how does a wild pig catch a hunter?