HOW TO CATCH WILD PIGS!

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in his class. One day, the professor 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 about his apparent discomfort. The student told him that 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.

Then he asked the professor a strange question. He said, "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 can 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 every day to eat the free corn. When they are accustomed to coming every day to eat the corn, you put up a fence on one side of the area. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again. Then 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 now used to coming to get the free corn, start to come through the gate. Then, when all the pigs are inside, you close the gate on them and you have caught the whole herd of pigs. They run around inside the fence, but they are caught and can't get out. Soon they just 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".

What is happening to us in America is like what happened to the wild pigs. The government keeps putting the "free corn" out for us in the form of special programs, subsidies, bailouts, welfare, health care, etc., while we gradually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time. Soon we will find ourselves fenced in by socialism or worse, and we won't be able to escape it!

Accepting the "free corn" now being pushed on us by President Obama and Congress is going to come at a great cost. They are building the "fences", bit by bit, around us. Then they will provide or withhold the "free corn" and we will have no choice but to accept it because we have surrendered our freedom to decide for ourselves and direct our own lives.

Wake up, America. before they close the gate!

(Taken from an article by Mike Boyer)