Pigs Don't Know Pigs Stink

The following message was traveling around cyberspace via email. I cleaned it up and set it to a downloadable PDF. Write me and I'll send it if you like. Like many others, I tried to track the source and can't say difinitively who get's the credit for this story.

It's an interesting analogy, even more interesting when you look at the slow decline of America and how it's come about. It's interesting that people always want to blame our problems on the current administration. Yet if we look at history, we can see that nothing happens overnight - there were warnings far in advance of the Great Depression, though nothing was done. There were warnings prior to 911, and nothing was done. What are we going to do now, wait for the gate to close? You decide.

How to Catch Wild Pigs

Find a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs will find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, put a fence down along one side of the place where they come to eat. At first they might be intimidated but in time they get used to the fence and begin to eat the corn again. Then 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, now used to the free corn, will come through the gate to eat. Then 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.

This is what’s happening in America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism - sprinking the free corn 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, Medicaid, free prescription drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms – little by little so we hardly notice like the frog slowly being boiled.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch. A politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. Don’t be buffaloed.

If you see that all of this wonderful government “help” is a problem that flies in the face of democracy in America, you might want to share this information with your friends.
In this critical election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you. 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.” Thomas Jefferson

And pigs don’t know pigs stink.