How to Catch Wild Pigs

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 (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 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, who are used to the free corn, start to come through
the gate to eat, 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 .
The 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 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: There is no such thing as a free Lunch!
A politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do
it for yourself.

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