THIS IS THOUGHT PROVOKING. TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT, AND IF YOU AGREE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEND IT ON TO THOSE THAT YOU THINK WILL SEE THE WISDOM IN IT AS WELL.

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some
exchange students in his 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
everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every
day, you place a fence down one side 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 shut on them. The wild pigs have lost their
freedom and run around and around inside the fence, but can't
escape

Soon they just go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it by now that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, and they simply 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 cuts, tax exemptions, 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 two truths:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch.

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

If you agree 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 others to ponder.

Those who think the free ride is essential to their way of life, will likely just delete this email.

But God help us all when the gate slams shut !

Author Unknown To Me