It looks like political junkie and Paul Wellstone Democrat Al Franken is on his to becoming the newest Senator from Minnesota. The lawyer for Republican numbskull Norm Coleman says that it appears that Al Franken will continue with his lead heading into the state supreme court decision. It appears to me that Al knows more about politics than most politicians, so let's hope he will be our next elected representative in Washington.
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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 sees 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, 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.
Also, 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 not listen to this messag, but God help you when the gate slams shut!
Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam the gate on America .
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big
enough to take away everything you have"
Thomas Jefferson
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