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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on July 22, 2008, 09:46:55 PM
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THe upcoming political season could have devastating effects on our second amendment rights. There is a slow tide rising in this country and we all better build a dam or buy some floatation devices.............
CATCHING WILD PIGS
One day a professor leading a chemistry lab class noticed a young exchange student who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if injured.
He asked the young man what was the matter and the student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot during fighting in his native country by those wanting to install a 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 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 everyday 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, hardly noticing the opening getting smaller as the gate quietly creaks closed.
Almost suddenly the whole herd realizes it is caught. But not so suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. Some run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they all 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, etc, etc. while we continue to lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.
Generally government will never provide a service more efficiently for you than you can do it yourself. So, if you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you rationalize these programs in the interest of “fairness or kindness” or 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 is closed!
In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you - just maybe you will be able to tell 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
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Bullseye. Now if we could get everyone to think like that.
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Bullseye. Now if we could get everyone to think like that.
Fat chance, I'm afraid. Too many kool-aid drinkers.
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"Too many kool-aid drinkers"
You got that right, my friend.
The 'sheeple' have lined up and bought into all manner of hype for so long that that I'm afraid common sense has left the building.
Mercy be on all of us.