How to catch a Wild Pig........................

[hammAR]

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 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 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, if you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then, God help you when the gate slams shut!

[gunshop guy]

Amen!

[someone1980]

OK I like most of the post.

I do have to call B.S. on

You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

[rucker]

OK I like most of the post.

I do have to call B.S. on

You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

well it's probably always cheaper initially, it's repairing everything you screwed up that makes it more expensive to do it yourself.

[SethB]

OK I like most of the post.

I do have to call B.S. on

You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Second the call.

There just ain't no way I could have operated on my own shoulders with results I'd be willing to live with.

[nyffman]

Still an excellent point. Compares nicely to boiling frogs.

[hammAR]

Still an excellent point. Compares nicely to boiling frogs.

Pigs, frogs, everyone prefers their own version,
just like Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs..........some will get it and the rest won't.....

[selurcspi]

Still an excellent point. Compares nicely to boiling frogs.

, everyone prefers their own version,
just like Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs..........some will get it and the rest won't.....

Pigs, frogs, We consider the French to be both.

Don't worry ttousi, we consider you to be "Merican"

[hammAR]

Buy him some fromage frais, he will feel ok then..............

[ttousi]

Buy him some fromage frais, he will feel ok then..............

watch it gunny .....you might get your fromage "fraised" next round

[BRIT_in_the_weeds]

Get him some nice runny Camambert, that tastes similar too powdered laundry soap and sweaty socks.


I could have said Persil, but then we'd need another translation.