Topic: Catching Pigs

[AmericanPatriot]

CATCHING PIGS

THIS IS TRULY THOUGHT PROVOKING.

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 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.

[charlesoakwood]

 

[LadyVirginia]

There are those who understand they're giving up freedoms but think it's worth the price

[BigAlSouth]

Personally, the Blue Counties are a lost cause. They are a perfect example of the story of the wild pigs.

I have said before that once a man forgets how to feed himself, he becomes a slave to those who provide him his next meal. When that meal is withheld, the next step is revolution.

[Libertas]

If people were more self-reliant they wouldn't be lured into accepting freebies or submitting to captivity!

Those who do so willingly have earned my contempt.  Those who practice this perversion have earned eternal oblivion.

[IronDioPriest]

There are those who understand they're giving up freedoms but think it's worth the price

There are also those who understand their liberties are being taken and don't think it's worth the price, but believe themselves impotent to resist. Those are the ones who will - or will not - save the republic. Someone among them must build a pathway to the confidence that comes with looking to your left, right, and back, and understanding that you are not alone. Until people know that bold action will be supported and replicated all across the land, those people will believe they are impotent to resist. I think most of us here would fall into that category if we're honest with ourselves.

[Dan]

There are those who understand they're giving up freedoms but think it's worth the price

And I think I despise them most of all.