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.
                    
                    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 us all when the gate slams shut!
                    
                    Quote for today:
                    "The problems we face today are
there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those
who vote for a living."
                    --Anonymous

In response to tvoter's comment:

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions, leading to statistical errors.

Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive inference toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study.

Confirmation bias is a phenomenon wherein decision makers have been shown to actively seek out and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, and ignore or underweigh evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis.

As such, it can be thought of as a form of selection bias in collecting evidence.

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Clearly, that's monsanto-brand, genetically modified, roundup-resistant corn they're munching.

In response to WhatDoYouWantNow's comment:

Thats all.

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Right..except that the story isn't even true..it's one of those silly chain e-mails. I actually got this from a crazy right wing relative a few weeks ago.

Gotta love the poster who post these chain e-mails in a political discussion forum...declare them to be true stories..and then wonder why no one takes anything they say seriously.

In response to tvoter's comment:

It may be true of pigs, but not of humans. After all, you are a potential beneficiary of all the policies you hate, if the worst was to happen to you. Have you therefore quit your job and gone on welfare?

Nevermind that the point of the story, which apparently you didn't even read to conclusion, was conspiracy-like thinking about the loss of all our freedoms. Since that's what you're constantly worried about here.... like I said...confirmation bias.

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Wher eit came from is only important if, your looking for a small reason to just discard it.

The scenerio is true of animals, That is the point!

In response to WhatDoYouWantNow's comment:

Hey guys, just thought I'd talk about pigs for a moment. What are you talking about? Whaaaa?

Nice story bro!

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In response to WhatDoYouWantNow's comment:

I always like it when you post stuff you didn't write, and don't understand, it always reassures my opinion of you and your ilk.

Where do you think the term "welfare generation" comes from, folks get used to getting free stuff, then pass this trait onto their children, and so on and so on.....

Of course folks are going to support the people that give them stuff, and if it makes them pigs in a pen, eating free corn, thay are OK with that.  It's quite obvious, look at the recent election results.

Let's see if this lasts through the day, deleting posts for no reason is childish, although I understand it when people fear others.

So the message of this story is that conservatives think people are no better than wild pigs...

In response to tvoter's comment:

Actually, it is the current administration that think some people are pigs in a pen, or cattle, or sheep.

They think they can just give them stuff that is taken from other people, and they will get more votes, worked for Obama.

The Welfare state re-elected him, prove me wrong?  Or STFU!

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But, since you "worked with animals" Im sure you already knew that.

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And the army will just.....take it....

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