Thornton Parsons
This parable has been around for quite some time, however, it rings truer today than ever. Freedom is at stake, and if Socialism wins, we’ll all be captured.
A chemistry professor at a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor 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 that 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 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, 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 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.
Most people only hear about the 47% of the nation who pay no income taxes and are dependent on government assistance. They don’t think about the corporate end of the spectrum; those who pay no income taxes, or very low income taxes, and are dependent on the government for bailout assistance. So, now what percent of the nation do you think has been captured like wild pigs? The takeover is almost complete.
So we are the tallest midget in a room full of midgets, and shrinking more everyday…
I applaud this article for its insightful nature and clear example, which I have personally witnessed being done with another type of animal.
If a person shirks responsibility for herself, she will lose the ability to be responsible when she needs it most.
Amerika is the most capitalist country in the world. Your "commentary" is pointless and uneducated.
HST