stlrtruck
03-12-2008, 08:41 AM
Just a fun little parable....
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.
One should always remember two
truths:
1) There is no such thing as a free lunch
2) and
you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can
do it yourself.
If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will
probably ignore this parable.
But God help you when the
gate slams shut!
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.
One should always remember two
truths:
1) There is no such thing as a free lunch
2) and
you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can
do it yourself.
If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will
probably ignore this parable.
But God help you when the
gate slams shut!