I had this story e-mailed to me. It has some good thinking points, and I would like to get your take on its relevance.....
Do you know how to catch wild pigs?
This is 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 h ow to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
According to the writer, 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.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." Thomas Jefferson
...I am not an anti-government activist, nor do I want the government to stop providing services and security functions for me/us, but I think there is a lethergy that is overtaking us in our dependance. I am an advocate for personal and civil responsibility of each citizen.
What do you think of this story? Does it apply to you / America?
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