I received an email today that went through the motions of how to catch wild pigs.
First, you go to a place in the woods and lay corn down. The pigs find it, come everyday, and enjoy the free corn. When they are accustomed to coming every day, you set up the first side of a fence around where they are gathering.
When they get used to that, they will return to the corn and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and you continue setting the fence up until you have all four sides of the fence up. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, enter the gate to eat and you slam the gate behind them, catching the whole herd.
Suddenly and subtlely, the pigs have lost their freedom. They are frantic searching for a way out, but, alas, they are caught. So, they return to eating their corn. Now they are so used to having been provided food that they forget how to forage for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
Our government is further pushing us toward socialism through “free corn”- government handouts, debilitating and hobbling welfare programs, tax credit for unearned income, foreclosure bailouts, nationalized healthcare, bad credit buy-outs- the list goes on and on.
All the while, a fence is being constructed around us, eliminating our freedoms a little at a time. Important to emphasise is that a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
We need to keep our minds alert and our eyes open on our newly elected president who is about to slam the gate on America!
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.”- Gerald Ford
