CRITICAL LIFE LESSON: 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
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(h/t to excel)
There was a history professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in sessions, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student slightly older than the others, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if it hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a piece of a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting Communist guerillas in his native country a few years ago, their trying at the time to overthrow his government and install a new 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 every day to eat the free food”.
“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 the UK. Momentum 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, free university places, welfare entitlements, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the Labour government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to.
One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, 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 the UK , you might want to share this with your friends.
God help us all when the gate slams shut!
https://medium.com/@graham100200/critical-lif...626a84c161
Author unknown
(h/t to excel)
There was a history professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in sessions, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student slightly older than the others, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if it hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a piece of a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting Communist guerillas in his native country a few years ago, their trying at the time to overthrow his government and install a new 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 every day to eat the free food”.
“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 the UK. Momentum 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, free university places, welfare entitlements, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the Labour government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to.
One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, 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 the UK , you might want to share this with your friends.
God help us all when the gate slams shut!
https://medium.com/@graham100200/critical-lif...626a84c161
