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 trough 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 as the government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to.
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