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How do you suppose Wild Hogs are equated to Tame Americans? From an email I received a few days ago, an adaptation...

Catching Wild Hogs...and Tame Americans?

There was a professor in a large college that had some Exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in session 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 student 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 hogs?" The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

The young man said this was no joke.

"You catch wild hogs by finding a suitable place in the woods and start putting corn on the ground. The hogs 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. When the hogs, which are getting 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 hogs 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 Communism, and 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, Health Care, drugs, et al. While we accept continually lose our freedoms-just a little at a time."

The Punch Line? One should always remember TANSTAAFL: "There is no such thing as a free lunch!"

So, look around you. Do you even see the 'walls' that are going up? Can you pull yourself away from that 30-minute sitcom long enough to see what's really happening to the Tame Americans in this country?

Or are you just waiting for the day when that tax money corn you're shoveling into that field is earmarked or subsidized for you...your own personal use, an entitlement.

You might want to listen for creaking of the hinges....