Wild Pigs

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Wild Pigs

Malladi Venkata Krishna MurthyThere 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 (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, which 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 it 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 the people continually lose their freedoms - just a

little at a time.

 

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