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« on: December 14, 2011, 05:20:35 PM »
a political analogy
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.
One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an 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 regime.

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 it 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, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again.
You then 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 in America .
The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, 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.

One should always remember two truths:
There is no such thing as a free lunch and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


by someone older and wiser than I

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Re: from another forum
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2011, 05:37:50 PM »
... and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

I like the analogy, but I'm not sure about the last bit. Isn't exchanging goods/services with a net gain for both exchange parties sort of the whole point of capitalism?
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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2011, 07:19:22 PM »
I like the analogy, but I'm not sure about the last bit. Isn't exchanging goods/services with a net gain for both exchange parties sort of the whole point of capitalism?

Yeah, for instance I can hire a local contractor for $10/hr less than I make.

That is how you catch contractors.  =)
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2011, 11:01:32 AM »
When I was in the insurance business, I had a fair number of clients who were eastern Europeans who had escaped from various pars of the Russian Empire after WWII.

The things they told me and the observations they made about where we were headed as a country were parts of the reason why I have come to be revolted by what our elected and non elected  bureaucrat critters have and are doing.  What's worse we are letting them do it.  These folks told me these things 30 years ago.  If Americans don't finally wake up soon, say next election, I'll be double glad that I'm old.  If union rank and file don't wake up and weed out the Marxists they have put in charge of their unions, it's even worse.
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