Catching Pigs

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.

Letter to the Editor from Michigan

I love it when readers send me letters to the Editor from their home town papers,...
........shows that good old American common sense is still alive and well across this great land. If the letter is hard to read, click on the image to open up a slightly larger image.

A Nation of Entitlements

I write this as it appears the Health Care Bill before Congress has enough unprincipled representatives to vote to pass. Apparently the overwhelming opposition to this bill throughout the Country did not bear enough on the Representatives to have them vote down this monstrosity of tax increases, entitlements and unparalleled Federal Government power.

This forebodes terrible things for this Country as we become more and more a Country of Entitlements and not personal responsibility. The Founders are rolling over in their graves.

A local example in the County I live in: The largest City in the County voted to grant benefits for the unwed partners of City Employees. This is a city that is at least 10 million dollars in the red this year. One person’s Letter to the Editor states that “even criminals in prison are given free medical care so what not the unmarried partners of City employees?” Are you kidding me or what? Then, this idiot further writes, “Let us hope that common sense will rule the day.” 10-4 on common sense, but we need the Thomas Paine type of common sense, not the Barack Obama Socialist type of common sense.