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HOW TO CATCH WILD PIGS

January 12, 2008 · 13 Comments

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 (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 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?’ 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. 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.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to 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, 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 ‘There is no such thing as a free Lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

I just don’t know how some people don’t get this..

 

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13 responses so far ↓

  • patricksperry // January 12, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    This is one excellent parable to be sure.

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  • TRM // January 12, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Thanks, got from an old wise freind…
    Unfortunately, I will probably be preaching to the choir and those that need to read and understand it will not…

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  • James // February 26, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    This is a very interesting way to catch wild pigs. It is very interesting and creative method to catch the entire pig family - fahter, mom, kids, uncles, uncle’s family, and grand parents of pig family alive and unharmed. Thank you for the story!

  • Anne // May 12, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    Nah. The corn is the cheap goods we’re all happy to buy, putting ourselves out of good jobs. We’re more trapped around here than you think.

  • Our Hero // June 10, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    I agree with Anne, we grab the free corn at Wal-Mart in the form of cheap chinese-made goods. We fear terrorists and other boogeymen, and eagerly step in line to give half of every tax dollar to the military industry for endless wars that make us less safe and make our enemies hate us more. We allow the government to slowly take away habeas corpus, protection from unlawful search, seizure, and surveillance. The fence is a supreme court that rules in favor of business over individual’s rights every time. Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Russia - it’s all the same.

  • Ralph Ekwall // June 10, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    This parable is out of date. Does anyone seriously believe that Communism is a threat to our country? What specific freedoms is our Congress and our government taking away from us? How about a few specifics.

    I can want to mention Social Security and Medicare and ask: are these the programs that the author wants to abolish. How about some specificity.

    I welcome comments

    Ralph Ekwal

  • patricksperry // June 12, 2008 at 7:01 am

    Ralph, this is not my blog, but I would say. Do your own research with regards to the above postings.

    It’s a sort of class thing.

  • foutsc // July 6, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    I am a conservative, and I was pleasantly surprised to see this story on this site. An oppressive, overweening government is a danger, regardless if it governs from the left or from the right. Our Demican and Republicrats have gotten us so far away from the founding fathers’ original ideal…

  • patricksperry // July 8, 2008 at 6:11 am

    Again, not my Blog, but please, capitalize Founding Fathers. It is simply a matter of respect. Thank you.

  • devildog6771 // September 2, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    This is a wonderful post. There is truth in what it says. I see a couple really didn’t get the message. Maybe they should also do some research as another reader was directed to do. It is all out there for anyone who decides to stop being a sheep and begin being a bull!

  • Buffoon // September 2, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    Devil dog you know I don’t blog here anymore, right?

    new home is
    http://www.dequalss.com/wp/

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