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thought to remember, Marx said, "Remove one freedom per generation and
soon you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed."
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, 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 food. "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 exemptions,
tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),
welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose
our freedoms, just a little at a time.
One should always remember two truths:
There
is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to
provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
If
you see that all of this wonderful government "help" is a problem
confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to share
this with your friends.
If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably stay quiet.
