How to catch wild pigs

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Or, "The Dumbing Down of America"

 

 

"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 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. "

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Dont feed the bears. We say that all the time In my business.  

[Neonred 3,648]

I know I am going to catch heck for this, but...this is how we used to catch pigs back in my day at the U of South Carolina.

 

Wait until late at night

 

Go to the bar that had ladies night

 

Look for a really big one

 

So easy

 

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

10 minutes ago, Neonred said:

I know I am going to catch heck for this, but...this is how we used to catch pigs back in my day at the U of South Carolina.

 

Wait until late at night

 

Go to the bar that had ladies night

 

Look for a really big one

 

So easy

 

My wife told me that's how girls do it too, I have to wonder, was I the hunter or the prey

[TBoneTX 46,137]

14 hours ago, Satisfied said:

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America.

Had this been a Political Science* course, the kid would have gotten an immediate and automatic grade of F.

Do not criticize socialism or Communism, to your peril.

 

*or Journalism

[TBoneTX 46,137]

Official message:  need a link to the original post, per the rules.  Thanks.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

It is but a simple (yet poignant) parable, author unknown.  Not a news clip or similar.

[Dashinka 24,804]

This is so real, and it transcends political parties, many of the congressional GOP delegation seem to support a lot of these free giveaways.

 

I still find it hard to believe that with the historical track record of socialism and communism, that people still believe the failures are a result of poor implementation.

 

[TBoneTX 46,137]

Socialist programs fail only because the right people weren't in charge during previous attempts.

[Dashinka 24,804]

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Socialist programs fail only because the right people weren't in charge during previous attempts.

Who defines the "right people"?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

17 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Who defines the "right people"?

The people in charge of ruining the country/state.

[Ban Hammer 13,558]

13 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Who defines the "right people"?

the left.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

 

[2018JNJ 141]

On 9/2/2018 at 7:26 PM, Neonred said:

I know I am going to catch heck for this, but...this is how we used to catch pigs back in my day at the U of South Carolina.

 

Wait until late at night

 

Go to the bar that had ladies night

 

Look for a really big one

 

So easy

 

I heard it's best to go right before closing time..while you might not get the cream of the crop you will get something. (clap)

Desperate times..Desperate measures. 

 

jj