Catching Pigs

While having dinner the other night with some friends, one of them, while reaching for her cell phone, jokingly referred to it as her Obama phone. When I asked her what she meant by that, she said it was her free phone courtesy of Obama and I could get one just like it.

“Free?” I said. “Who paid for it?”

“What do you mean?” she asked. “It’s free.”

As you can imagine, I quickly let her know that free is not free. Someone had to pay for it and it was probably all of us taxpayers at the table.

She was flabbergasted, had just accepted the free phone. Did she think money grows on trees?

A friend of mine sent me the following in an email. I found it instructive and hope you’ll share it with everyone you know. There is a cancer pervading this country – socialism, Marxism,or whatever you want to call it. 

IS THIS HAPPENING TO US?

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 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 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 o 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, and
2) You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America  you might want to share it with your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably ignore this.

But God help you when the gate slams shut!

I’m sure you’ve heard that if you drop a frog in boiling water, he’ll jump out, but if you put him in water and apply heat gradually, he’ll stay there till he dies. I think we’re in that water, nearly at the boiling point. It’s time to jump out.

Restore integrity.

Restore honor.

Restore the Constitution.

Let’s replace all of those criminals that make up our Congress, both Republican and Democrat, and restore our government to what the founding fathers envisioned, where individual liberty is protected, where justice is equal for everyone, and where “social justice” – where the government steals money from some of its citizens to give to others -- are just words that will appear in our history books in a few years.

Until next time…