A college professor had foreign exchange students in his class. One day the professor noticed a male exchange student rubbing his back as if it was sore. He asked the young man if he was okay, and the student told him that he had a bullet lodged in his back, put there by insurgents who tried to overthrow his country's government.
Then the student 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, “You catch wild pigs by finding a place in the woods and putting down corn on the ground. The pigs find the corn and begin coming back every day to eat.
“When they get used to eating the corn every day, you put a fence down one side of that place. After they get used to the fence and eat the corn again, you put up another side of the fence. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate. When the pigs come through the gate for more corn, you shut the gate and catch the whole herd.
He continued, “The pigs will be upset that they’ve lost their freedom, but soon will go back to eating all that free corn, because at least they don’t have to forage in the woods for it.”
The young man said, “That’s what’s happening in America. The government keeps spreading free corn in the form of supplemental income, unearned income, subsidies, welfare, bailouts, free medical care and free drugs."
He concluded, “When you lose your freedom a little at a time, you don’t see when the gate is shut. You may reason it seems better this way than before, but you are no longer free. And one day the government may refuse to give you corn, because they say you have had enough.”
Thomas Jefferson once said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have."
"AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE." (John 8:32)
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