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 every day to eat the free food”.
“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 exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to.
One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and 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 this with your friends.
God help us all when the gate slams shut!
Quote for today: “The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living.”
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[–] lemon11 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
Capital and opportunity costs make this untrue. It doesn't really have anything to do with government crowding out private enterprise, which is done with stolen money and labor.
[–] anoncastillo 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Yeah, that was the one and only line in the story that struck me as untrue.
[–] TheSeer 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
That is only true of productive people, though.
[–] Gislisson ago
Sure it is, why would I spend an hour shoveling snow when I could bill out that hour at a higher rate than the neighbors kid.
[–] lemon11 ago
No. An ubermensch can do everything better, can be self-sufficient in a state of nature. But it's still cheaper in terms of opportunity costs and capital costs to buy something that's already been made by morons to save the time and effort.
[–] Gislisson 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I can repair the brakes on my car, and do it cheaper than a pro at a shop. But I don't, because I don't want to take the chance of killing my family saving a few dollars (if the 'fixed' brakes don't work) and if I survive the wreck there is someone to sue.
Same is true for the gas furnace in my basement.
[–] EyeOfHorus ago
You don’t have to be incompetent.
[–] Blehblehbleh73 ago
This reminds me of something I heard from Ben Shapiro a few years back (I know, don't even start). Said something along the lines of a single hoagie sandwich costing thousands of dollars over the coarse of a year or so if you completely create it by your own hand (raise the livestock, grow the wheat, etc.).
[–] Dewannawonga 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
That is a really great analogy. What forum is it from?
[–] NeedleStack [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
This is the post where I saw it but you have to be a member on Ravelry to see it I'm afraid.
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[–] Gislisson 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Agreed. similar to the idea of how to boil a frog. But as I was reading it I thought, what if the pigs were armed to the teeth?
And doesn't that explain the relentless push for gun control.
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[–] Deflo56 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There’s a ton of trap videos on Utube. The secret is to slowly get them use to the free food. The leaders will remain skittish and must be eliminated or the team will rebound. Mass extermination is the game. The free pig is too unpredictable for the farmer (elites).
[–] NosebergShekelman 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
JFK was (((assassinated)))
[–] Hand_of_Node 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MHr3yLWMVU (0:18)
People have been predicting 'end times' for quite awhile now, and thinking that "things can't get much worse than this." Whenever it's going to happen, it's sure looking like things are going to get a lot worse.
[–] NeedleStack [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's a pretty terrifying clip when you compare it to what's going on now.
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[–] Honey_Pot 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Still powerful, as well.