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LiquidFork
02-07-2008, 07:43 PM
How To Catch Pigs (http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/how_to_catch_pigs/)

We can be free and responsible for our own lives or eat the free corn of the Democrats and it is all up to each one of us.

There was a chemistry professor in a large college who had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the prof 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 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, 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 cuts, 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.

kinda makes you think doesnt it?

sedan
02-07-2008, 07:57 PM
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Napsterbater
02-07-2008, 08:27 PM
I've heard this a few times, always about hated socialism/communism. It seems to me to be just as bad of doom and gloom as the idiots who think 9/11 was an inside job and the nation is tumbling fast towards fascism.

you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
Just because it would be cheaper for me to paint my own house, put up my own fence, whatever in the short run, doesn't mean it's desirable. There's a thing in econ called opportunity cost, and understanding it is key to understanding why people do the things they do. I feel sorry for the bloke who takes these words to heart.

DarkFantasy96
02-07-2008, 09:03 PM
I've heard this a few times, always about hated socialism/communism. It seems to me to be just as bad of doom and gloom as the idiots who think 9/11 was an inside job and the nation is tumbling fast towards fascism.
I agree.

sedan
02-08-2008, 06:16 AM
Last edited by LiquidFork : Yesterday at 08:26 PM.Ninja!

Jester
02-08-2008, 08:32 AM
Now the question is, how many pigs would have starved to death if they didn't get the free corn?

Foolsworth
02-08-2008, 09:15 AM
The real tricky part to that story is juts how in the hell
dat fellar nude to use Our Wild Hogs,herein,as examples.
Man oh boy,talk about a combo of George Orwell and Nostradamus.
Like,is it no secret that even Wild Hogs can learn't pig latin.
As in Latinized - Le Propheties - and the grain-fed Board Mods
from French New Guinea Pigs.

The Praetorian
02-08-2008, 10:36 AM
Now the question is, how many pigs would have starved to death if they didn't get the free corn?
None. I would've killed and eaten them all well before they reached the point of starvation. MMmmmmmm - pig roast....

I don't know about you, but if I see a pig, I actually get hungry.

mikezila
02-08-2008, 10:53 AM
None. I would've killed and eaten them all well before they reached the point of starvation. MMmmmmmm - pig roast....

I don't know about you, but if I see a pig, I actually get hungry.
i tried giving up meat once, it lasted for about a month until i almost wrecked the Mikemobile while driving past a field of cows and daydreaming about running one down and taking a bite out of it. i set course for BK after that:)

dharmabum
02-08-2008, 11:38 AM
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 cuts, 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.

So... tax cuts and dairy subsidies are causing us to lose our freedoms???

How does that work?


and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you
cheaper than you can do it yourself.


Hmmm...

That sounds like an argument against privatization and for having us doing things ourselves via the government.

Take Health Insurance for example, we could save $350 Billion in administrative costs by switching to a single-payer national health program.
Why?
Because we can do it cheaper ourselves.

paulc
02-08-2008, 11:44 AM
If you stand on a a stage and declare the best medical services on Earth
[if you can afford it]
promise to start a new arms race
[bullying russia into playing]
spend billions on new weapony
[to keep us 50 years ahead of everyone else-instead of the usual 20, and increasing our employment stats because its the only way we know how to do it]
pretend we're on a war footing
[so we can ignore constitutional issues, and keep everyone in check-on their way to the weapons factory]
if i could do all those things,and have a good white name and live in somewhere thats real mean and nasty with social issues-like nebraska
[i could be the republican nominee for president]
fuck the pigs

Freethinker
02-08-2008, 12:09 PM
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up.............

Absolutely.

One side of the fence is the belief in the inherent superiority of America and the "American People", no matter what.

One side of the fence is devotion to tradition, to reverence for Old Glory, to hands over hearts and to comforting notions like Mom and Apple Pie.

One side of the fence is religious belief; the instilling in the masses of the notion of a "higher power".

And the fourth side is infatuation with militarism and *Might Makes Right* and the notion that America should overpower those 'evil' foreigners who stand in the way of profits for American businesses.

Those four fences form a nearly impregnable enclosure.

But the creatures captured inside are not pigs, but sheep.

The wolves constructed the fences, and the pigs are used to prevent any from breaking free.

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