Probably not what you are expecting by the title. I got this in an email this morning and hadn't seen it before so I'm sharing.
> 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, 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 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.
>
> Also, 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, but God help you when the
> gate slams shut!
>
> 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
