Catching Wild Pigs

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November 4, 2007 11:28 AM

Patsy

Member Since:
February 14, 2007

I just received this email and wanted to share it with you all. Perhaps Hillary and her ilk are really pig hunters....and no doubt they will catch a LOT!! Don't get caught in the pen!!

"Pig Hunting" - Here is something to think about
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.

By now 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 Communism/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!' Also, you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. Also, 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 us when the gate slams shut!

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November 4, 2007 01:51 PM

Rayj00

Member Since:
March 29, 2007

What a great analogy.....

Rayj
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November 4, 2007 03:29 PM

FireWing

Member Since:
February 5, 2007

Plenty of piggys at the trough and the government always willing to set out more of those troughs too. Always at election time there are so many promises of what the government can do for you. Of course it never really happens and by then too many of us are caught in the trap. Soon we find ourselves in the middle of a Katrina drowning, waiting for the government to rescue us.

"Good fences make good neighbors."-Robert Frost "Too BAD!!"-Glenn Beck

November 4, 2007 03:50 PM

(CM) BiotechBabe

Member Since:
March 3, 2007

Patsy...THAT WAS POWERFUL! WOW! "God help us when the gate slams shut......"

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress." Ronald Reagan "Evil is powerless when the good are unafraid." Ronald Reagan

November 4, 2007 04:07 PM

speakengl

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

(Admin) BiotechBabe said:
Patsy...THAT WAS POWERFUL! WOW! "God help us when the gate slams shut......"

I guess it's up to people like us to make sure than gate never slams shut! EXPOSURE of the gatekeepers. We need to keep working!

Great Post, Patsy, and an excellent reminder why we are all here!

Washington State

November 4, 2007 04:15 PM

Rayj00

Member Since:
March 29, 2007

If we "make sure the gate never slams shut" , that only means we've waited too long!!!

We are at the stage of continueing to come back to feed.

When the side fences start going up...we then have become way too complacent.

We have to stop going back to feed.... it's the only way!

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

November 4, 2007 05:06 PM

speakengl

Member Since:
May 25, 2007

Rayj00 said:

If we "make sure the gate never slams shut" , that only means we've waited too long!!!

We are at the stage of continueing to come back to feed.

When the side fences start going up...we then have become way too complacent.

We have to stop going back to feed.... it's the only way!

I absolutely agree, but how do we get the rest of the US citizens to see that?

Washington State

November 4, 2007 05:16 PM

Rayj00

Member Since:
March 29, 2007

Whenever I want to diseminate information, I go to my local newspaper and post to the "Letter To The Editor". I have yet to be denied a letter. Only one per month though. I warn you though if your phone number is listed...be prepared...

If you subscribe to out of town papers, I would think you are entitled to have an article in their opinion section too.

You know the old "You tell two people, and they each tell two people, and they all tell two people...and so on...and so on"..... before you know it...someone is back telling you!!!

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

November 4, 2007 05:24 PM

(CM) BiotechBabe

Member Since:
March 3, 2007

Rayj00 said:
Whenever I want to diseminate information, I go to my local newspaper and post to the "Letter To The Editor". I have yet to be denied a letter. Only one per month though. I warn you though if your phone number is listed...be prepared...

If you subscribe to out of town papers, I would think you are entitled to have an article in their opinion section too.

You know the old "You tell two people, and they each tell two people, and they all tell two people...and so on...and so on"..... before you know it...someone is back telling you!!!

That's a great idea Rayj00.....can we take one person at a time and break this "entitlement mentality" that has persisted for decades? We need to start among our own citizens (legal of course). The hard part is that a lot of these people are druggies or just simply don't care. Many are people who DO really need assistance and do not abuse the system...they just need a leg up- temporarily- and that's okay. Most expect it from womb to tomb!

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress." Ronald Reagan "Evil is powerless when the good are unafraid." Ronald Reagan

Catching Wild Pigs

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