One day in class, 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 pi gs 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 , 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,
a politician will never 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 you when t he 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

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