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Wild Pigs


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 (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 Communism/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.

posted on Apr 20, 2008 3:43 PM ()

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I didn't get first read through...clever! I'm a little dense sometimes.
comment by mattguru18 on Apr 28, 2008 12:39 PM ()
I can see the pattern
comment by larryb on Apr 26, 2008 12:10 PM ()
Isn't it interesting how we as in U.S. is thought of by others. We have a lady in our orgainization from Uganda..and it is amazing to listen to her. How her country or some in her country view the U.S.
comment by elfie33 on Apr 26, 2008 10:57 AM ()
Good Story
comment by grumpy on Apr 24, 2008 4:01 PM ()
You've got a good author bookmarked, but this one is better:
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comment by sunlight on Apr 23, 2008 4:26 PM ()
Maybe so... So, we're the pigs???
comment by sunlight on Apr 21, 2008 10:41 PM ()
muuuuu
comment by docrock on Apr 21, 2008 7:06 PM ()
How many sides of the fence are left to put up?? Great analogy.
comment by angiedw on Apr 21, 2008 2:06 AM ()
ummm.
comment by cindy on Apr 20, 2008 5:31 PM ()
interesting... very thought provoking!
comment by kristilyn3 on Apr 20, 2008 4:54 PM ()

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