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Politics and Religion => Politics And Religion Discussion => : imadogman February 18, 2009, 01:20:58 PM

: How to catch Wild Hogs
: imadogman February 18, 2009, 01:20:58 PM

True Story??? Maybe not, but something to think about while eating corn.

THIS DESCRIBES WASHINGTON, DC!!!!!

Catching Wild Pigs

A chemistry professor in 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 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, 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 forgottenhow 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, welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we
continually lose our freedoms -- just a little at a time.

One should always remember:
There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician
will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do
it yourself.

Also, 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 think the free
ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably
delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams
shut!

Keep your eyes on the newly
elected politicians who are 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

: RE: How to catch Wild Hogs
: TCups February 18, 2009, 02:09:25 PM

You obviously didn't notice that Atlas Shrugged and the gate has already clanked shut.  Wooo Pigs!  Sooooooieeeeeeeee, sooooooieeeeeeeee, socialismmmmmmm.  The total obligations of the US government for "Pork" -- entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, "Stimulus Packages" Federal subsidies, etc. etc.) now exceeds $60 trillion (more than the entire globe's GDP).  Of course, everything should be just fine as long as the corn doesn't run out.  And no chance of that as long as the US government just keeps buying more corn on credit and raising taxes on that minority of who still actually work and pay income taxes . . .    I wonder what the hogs do when the corn stops but the fence is left in place?  Eat each other, most likely.

: RE: How to catch Wild Hogs
: Mick February 18, 2009, 02:47:23 PM

If they're lucky they do like I did 50+ years ago and crawl out through a hole in the fence ... minus almost every thing but the shirt on my back - lol !

Mick

: RE: How to catch Wild Hogs
: TCups February 18, 2009, 02:59:05 PM

Hey Mick:

I have checked out at least part of your web site.  Interesting.  Where is Luminary, TN, btw?

: RE: How to catch Wild Hogs
: Mick February 19, 2009, 12:01:40 AM

Welll ... first you find a remote ridgetop and look around for any sign of civilisation ... if you see as much as a tree cut down, you ain't there yet !   Actually it's not quite that remote, although at the time I first back-packed the area som 50 years ago while living in SW Ohio it was a "dangerous area" for strangers ... it's on the border of Rhea Co. and "Bloody  Bledsoe" Co. atop Waldens Ridge in East Tennessee.   To spot it on a map ... and it isn't marked on many, although most current satellite scans do identify it ... about 11 miles SW of Spring City ... about 13 miles NE of Pikeville ... about 20 miles SE of Crossville ... and about 20 miles NW of Dayton.   How's that ?   On some maps one may find a community named Milo ... this was an old mining village - now defunct - about 2 miles NE of where Luminary is supposed to exist.   Our School and Post Office haven't existed for a generation now but we have about 1000 folk scattered along maybe 10 miles of the ridgetop.

http://maps.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTExNmIycG51BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLWJ1dHRvbgRzbGsDbGluaw--#mvt=h&lat=35.697749&lon=-85.003827&zoom=18

For reference, this is my cabin as seen from space ... the one to the left of the Lowes Gap Road text ... I logged about 14 acres a couple of years back so it now stands out from "the jungle" when viewed from space.   My 100 Metre rifle range can be seen as the SW/NE brownish strip along the tree line to the south of the cabin, with the 50 yard range, the whitish strip, running NW/SE just to the immediate south of the cabin.

Mick

: RE: How to catch Wild Hogs
: TCups February 19, 2009, 12:11:26 AM

This is my "Cabin" near Zirconia, NC.  No logging done.

: Sheeple are much easier to catch!
: 3n00n February 19, 2009, 03:13:09 AM

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Bread and circuses .. .

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