I got this in an email recently...


 Catching 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 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 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
 that are used to the free corn start to come through the
 gate to eat, and then you slam the gate on th em 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, etc, etc. While we continue to 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.
 
 
  So, 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 when the gate slams shut!
 

  In this 'very important' election year, listen
 closely to what the candidates are promising you - just
 maybe, you will be able to tell who is about to slam the
 gate on America.
 
 
 
  'A government big enough to give you everything you
 want, is big enough to take away everything you have.' 
 
-Thomas Jefferson