As a follow up to my blog post yesterday, this was sent to me from one of the regular readers.  I think it’s a pretty good analogy of the socialistic approach that is being proposed by Barack Obama.  For the record I am not voting for Mcain either.  I don’t really like either candidate, maybe I’ll vote Libertarian or for Ron Paul just to make a point.

Who knows though, perhaps I will end up voting for Obama.  Regardless, it will be nice when this election is over so whoever gets elected can start being accountable for their promises and actually try to fix this country.

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 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 see’s 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,  – not to mention the bailout of greedy Wall Street Brokerages 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.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”

Thomas Jefferson

Interesting analogy. While Capitalism obviously encourages productivity and advancement, it’s also a system that Karl Marx foresaw breaking down.

The divide between the haves and have-nots eventually gets too large and the lower classes rise up in revolt. I think that part of the problem is the level of greed and corruption at the highest levels.

If you look at the legal code in the U.S. it’s a mess, as well as the tax code. The laws are written in a manner that is very difficult to decipher, thus placing that level of power in a small groups hands.

Rather than being accessible to everyone, the legal system has been made into a messy maze to ensure that it can be twisted and only a minority will have any real power.

I think people have grown weary of feeling like the politicians and big-business are only self-serving. What ever happened to the “interests of the people?”

It seems like tons of employers nowadays only want to hire people part-time so they don’t have to give benefits. And they want to cram “and other duties as assigned” into your job description so they can make you their multi-tasking monkey.

I’m not saying that employers don’t need protections to ensure they can deal with problem employees. But there also needs to be systems in place to protect employees rights as well. There needs to be balance, and we have shifted away from that.

I don’t know what the answer is to make things better, it certainly won’t happen overnight. But I would like to see our nation take a more selfish stance and focus inward on our societal problems, rather than concern ourselves with external conflicts so frequently.

Mr. Enke,

I do not appreciate you comparing my economic plan to “catching wild pigs”. If anyone is a pig it is you, hehe, I read your do not click tab.

And remember, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

Barack Obama

Wow, I am speechless. Thank-you Barack for posting here. LOL

Screw economics, lets go barbeque us some Moose.