Catching pigs

[SilkRider32]

This may have been posted before but doen't hurt to see it again.


CATCHING PIGS

THIS IS TRULY THOUGHT PROVOKING. TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT AND SEND IT ON TO THOSE THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTH SENDING TO.




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 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 disregard this.

[warrottjr]

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[Pete]

Originally Posted by warrottjr

And while we're at it, let's get rid of social security, medicare, military retirement, combat related special compensation, service-connected disability, commissary privileges and MWR.

We can always deliver pizzas!

I do not view my military retirement check as a welfare payment. I kinda' like to think I earned it.

I like that little statement that SS sends us each year. The one that adds up what you payed in and what you should get back a month after you retire "Edited - a month before your birthday". I went over $100,000 paid into it a while back. With about 15 years to go adding to it I don't think I'll ever draw it back down to zero.

[Snaquebite]

Originally Posted by warrottjr

And while we're at it, let's get rid of social security, medicare, military retirement, combat related special compensation, service-connected disability, commissary privileges and MWR.

We can always deliver pizzas!

Nor do I Pete, I PAID for all of these in one way or another.

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by warrottjr

And while we're at it, let's get rid of social security, medicare, military retirement, combat related special compensation, service-connected disability, commissary privileges and MWR.

We can always deliver pizzas!

Not without a union card.

TR

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by warrottjr

And while we're at it, let's get rid of social security, medicare, military retirement, combat related special compensation, service-connected disability, commissary privileges and MWR.

We can always deliver pizzas!

Sort of stepped on your crank......

Like the others I feel very stongly that I've "earned" my military retirement pay and paid in blood, burnt limbs and broken bones for the combat related special compensation.

I will most likely never see a social security payment as it will most likely be gone well before I come of age.

warrottjr,

The post above is referred to as "trolling" as it adds nothing to the thread/discussion but only incites others.

Consider this a warning.

Team Sergeant

[SilkRider32]

I believe that all retirement is earned by those who worked for it. You put in the time you should get some compensation for your efforts. Especially those who have served their country.

[warrottjr]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

warrottjr,

The post above is referred to as "trolling" as it adds nothing to the thread/discussion but only incites others.

Consider this a warning.

Team Sergeant

Acknowleged. Won't happen again. Post deleted:

Originally Posted by warrottjr

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