Student Exchange Programs

This is truly thought provoking. Take the time to read it and send it on to those who you think are worth sending it to.

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in his 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 countries government and install a new communist regime…. See More

In the midst of his story, he looked at his 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 it was no joke.

You catch pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and start putting corn down on the ground. The pigs find it and come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming everyday, you put down a fence one side of the place where they are used to coming.

When they get used to the fence they come back and eat the corn again, at this point 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 eating the free corn,start to come through the gate to eat the free corn again.

You slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost all their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence,but they’re caught.

Soon they go back to eating their free corn.they are so used to it, they have forgotten how to forage for themselves so they accept their captivity!

The young man then tells the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing us towards 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: There is no such thing as a free lunch.

If you see that all 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.

But GOD help you when the gate slams shut.