tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993059.post-3475677309350234872008-05-12T09:31:00.000-07:002008-05-12T09:41:16.006-07:00I received the following in an e-mail and I thought I'd share it with you:<blockquote>There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. &nbsp; 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.<br /><br />The professor asked the young man what was the matter. &nbsp; The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. &nbsp; 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.<br /><br />In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. &nbsp; He asked, "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"<br /><br />The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke.<br /><br />"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. &nbsp; The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; They get used to that and start to eat again. &nbsp; You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. &nbsp; 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."<br /><br />Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. &nbsp; They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. &nbsp; Soon they go back to eating the free corn. &nbsp; They are so used to eating the free corn that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.<br /><br />The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. &nbsp; 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, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.</blockquote><br /><br />Before you vote for the next President of the United States, ask the candidates how they feel about Socialism. &nbsp; Then ask yourself (yes, do the research) to uncover what they have said about Communism / Socialism over the course of their lifetimes, in school including college, in public meetings of all varieties, etc. &nbsp; Then find out what the people who are closest to them think about these topics. &nbsp; Spouses count. &nbsp; So do mentors and close associates. &nbsp; So do ministers and other spiritual and personal advisers and proponents of one's candidacy (ies). &nbsp; The way one interacts with the world with friends, advisers, and family says more about one's beliefs than all the practiced political rhetoric can possibly tell us.<br /><br />Obama has associated with men who advocate communism, men who have attempted to overthrow the government of the United States, <b>violently</b>, for the express purpose of replacing it with a Communist regimen friendly to the Soviet Union. &nbsp; Obama's spouse has openly advocated Communism while she was in college and afterwards. &nbsp; Obama's spiritual advisers are men who advocate violence against whitey and, again, advocate Communism. &nbsp; Obama does not like to hear from those who triffle with such terms as liberal or Socialist, but almost everything which comes out of his mouth stinks of Socialism. &nbsp; Consider that before you vote.Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17440565180290280728noreply@blogger.com