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, 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 every day 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 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.