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 professor
noticed one young man, an 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 moaists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's 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 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 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, 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 India.
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, tax
exemptions, 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 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
India, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the
free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete
this email. But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!
Hence, Quote for today:
"In India the problems we face today are there
because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who
vote for a living."
