She said she has “a million ideas but the country can’t afford them all”. When Hillary Mrs. Clinton uttered that phrase our Founding Fathers, who sought to eliminate tyranny by creating a government with limited power, must have been turning pirouettes in their graves! She seems to come up with a new Socialist program every day and is closely followed by Barack Hussein and the lovely Jon Edwards in her passion for imposing ‘free lunches’ upon the weak minded and gullible, who don’t seem to understand there is no such thing. Recently I read a story I’d like to share with you.
It seems there was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had several exchange students in his class. One day, while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if it 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 who were trying to overthrow the government of his native country and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked, “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?” The professor thought it was a joke and guessed at the punch line.
The young man said this was no joke. He continued, “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 get used to it, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. Once 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.
By now the pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat. One day you simply 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/Communism by 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 and now government run health care…while we continue to lose our freedom, a little at a time.
Remember, there is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’ and you can’t hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. Does some bureaucrat in Washington know better than you what is best for you and your family? Do you want the same mob that bankrupted Social Security, Medicare and who runs the Postal Service determining what medical treatment you’ll get and when or if you’ll even get it?
If you think there’s nothing wrong with letting your neighbor pay your way, look over your shoulder, there’s a fence going up. Ignore the historical plight of socialist countries and failed government programs; let radical Leftist Democrats ruin the finest health care system in the world, tax us into oblivion, redistribute wealth and destroy the free market economy that made America great. If that’s how you choose to squander your liberty, then let them do it all…but God help us when the gate slams shut!
R.S.F.
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