[BFritz]

> A chemistry professor in a large college had some
> exchange students in
> the class. One day while the class was in the lab
> 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 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, 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 (CRP),
> 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.
>
>
>
> Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who
> are 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

[DevilsWin]

Good one, and timeless too!

[Stardust]

Pretty cool, and very true