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Catching Wild Pigs

If you are patient and know their weakness, it is easy!

Table of Contents
* University
* Fighting Back
* Catching Wild Pigs
* Resistance at first, then ...
* Keep giving away things until ...
* Free Stuff is Stuff!
* Give, then take

University
There was a Chemistry professor at a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in lab the Professor noticed one of the young exchange student who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

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Fighting Back
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 government. 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?"

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Catching Wild Pigs
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.  The young man said this 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. 

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Resistance at first, then ...
The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate
to eat, you 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.

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Keep giving away things until you find what they want
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
happening to America . The government keeps pushing you toward
Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form
of programs such as supplemental tax credit for unearned income,
tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops
(CRP), welfare, free drug programs, free medical care, etc. while you
continually lose your freedoms in other areas - just a little at a time. 

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Value is only added, when labor is involved - Free Stuff is Stuff!
One should always remember there is no such thing as a free Lunch!
Also remember a politician will never provide a service for you or to you
cheaper than you can do it yourself.   If you think a free ride is essential
to your way of life, then God help you when the gate slams shut!

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Give, then take
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big
enough to take away everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson"

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G. Steven Andres
Psalms 45.17
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