Old MacDonald Had a Farm
CATCHING PIGS
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that 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. 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.
Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh!
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.
And on his farm he had some pigs, ee i ee i oh!
With an oink-oink here, and an oink-oink there
Here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink-oink
Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh!
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