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REDWHITEBLUE2
11-29-2007, 06:03 PM
THIS IS TRULY THOUGHT PROVOKING. There was a chemistry professor in a large college who had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the prof 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 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 through 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 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: There is no such thing as a free lunch and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

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 the gate slams shut!

Classact
11-29-2007, 07:17 PM
THIS IS TRULY THOUGHT PROVOKING. There was a chemistry professor in a large college who had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the prof 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 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 through 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 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: There is no such thing as a free lunch and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

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 the gate slams shut!Excellent post! My first thought before reading it was to build a trash dump. In Germany the trash folks had to watch their backs at the trash dump. I guess there is an analogy in there somewhere?

typomaniac
11-29-2007, 07:20 PM
Your post (paste?) rings totally hollow when juxtaposed with your signature: the Republicans are throwing out as much free corn for you wild pigs as anybody else is.

Little-Acorn
11-29-2007, 07:31 PM
the Republicans are throwing out as much free corn for you wild pigs as anybody else is.

And this refutes the point of the story....how?? :lame2:

diuretic
11-29-2007, 08:24 PM
Hard to refute a simplistic, one-sided folksy little homily that is very obviously propaganda. :coffee:

Little-Acorn
11-29-2007, 08:39 PM
Hard to refute a simplistic, one-sided folksy little homily that is very obviously propaganda. :coffee:

In other words, you can come up with nothing in response to a valid comparison, except to call it names, change the subject, and try to blame the original author for your inability to refute any of it. Again.

This seems to be a habit of yours. Don't you ever feel embarrassed over your chronic inability to contribute anything useful to the debate?

:cheers2:

typomaniac
11-29-2007, 09:42 PM
And this refutes the point of the story....how?? :lame2:
It doesn't: it just shows the poster's total lack of understanding of the story. :D

diuretic
11-29-2007, 10:07 PM
In other words, you can come up with nothing in response to a valid comparison, except to call it names, change the subject, and try to blame the original author for your inability to refute any of it. Again.

This seems to be a habit of yours. Don't you ever feel embarrassed over your chronic inability to contribute anything useful to the debate?

:cheers2:

This reminds me of Denis Healey's comment in the British parliament describing an attack on him by one of his opponents as like "being savaged by a dead sheep."

Don't get yourself all upset by my sometimes offhanded manner. I don't mean to be a prick to the original poster but I won't patronise the poster either, I'll say what I think and I did. Your response, probably written in a fit of high dudgeon, was to attack me and not address my point which was that this little story is propaganda. That wasn't an insult by me nor was it a deflection. My point was that the story was simple propaganda.

I would like to think I do contribute something useful to the debate(s) and I do like learning from them but I'll keep calling them as I see them and if I have to I'll engage in a defence of my position.

Again, this is propaganda. By all means contradict me and we should have a nice chat about why it is or why it isn't propaganda.

And :cheers2: as well back at ya :D