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[SIZE=3][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=3][SIZE=2] The following is something I read several years ago that, more now, than ever weighs heavily on my mind. The writer of this mentions political affiliations, that is NOT why I place it here. I would like some honest opinions.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=3][SIZE=2]the English language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
I can best explain my concern about the new congress's agenda, by using
this analogy given to me by a former student of mine.
Several years ago I was supervising a beginning teacher in a city school
system. One day during our end-of-the-day feedback conference, the young
man gave a facial grimace and began to rub his back. I asked him if he had
strained his back in the school lab. After a long period of silence, he
sat down at his desk and explained that he had immigrated to the United
States because of political problems in his native country. The discomfort
in his back was caused by a bullet wound he had received while fighting
the Communists who were trying to take over his country's government. He
was then a member of the underground nationalist force.
Then he asked me a surprising question: "Dr. Hedges, do you know how to
catch a wild hog?"
The question was completely out of context regarding the day's classroom
and lab teaching. I replied, "I'm not sure what you are talking about.
Tell me."
"First," he said, "you find out where the wild hogs are roaming and
feeding, and then you put some corn out in the field. Soon they will come
to eat the corn. You keep putting out the free corn. More wild hogs keep
coming to eat the corn."
"So what?" I said. "That's normal for any animal."
"Be patient. I will tell you what comes next," he said. "After the hogs
get used to your free corn, you put up a length of fence along one side of
the feeding area. The hogs get used to it. You keep giving them the corn.
Then you put up another section of fence at right angles to the first. You
keep giving them the corn. The hogs get used to the second fence. Then you
put up another length of fence at right angles to the second section. You
now have a U-shaped fenced area.
The hogs get used to that section of the fence. You keep giving them free
corn. Then you put another section of fence with a gate in it, making a
closed area except for the gate. You keep giving them corn. Now, the hogs
no longer are out in the fields, working to find their own food. They keep
coming into the area to eat the free corn. They get used to the fenced
area with the open gate. Then, one day you slam shut the gate when the
hogs are inside the fenced area. The wild hogs are caught - they are your
prisoners."
I understood then that the wild hogs were really the people of his native
country, and that the free corn was the enticements that the Communists
were giving to the people. "That's correct," the young man said. "Now, the
hogs will not get anything to eat unless you give them food. You are in
control. They depend on you to feed them, or they will starve. They can't
get out into the fields and forests anymore to find their own food. They
have probably forgotten how, as it is. They are your servants, your
prisoners. They must obey you. Or else they starve.
"The hogs," he said, "were so accustomed to having the free corn, that
they ignored the building of the fences that would eventually trap them.
When the gate slammed shut, it was too late for them to realize what they
had been blind to. The free corn was enticing, so effortless to obtain,
but eventually the cause of their loss of freedom. The fence had been
built; the gate had been shut."
At this point in our conversation, the young teacher, in a voice shaking
with emotion and with fists hitting the desktop, loudly exclaimed, "This
is what I see happening in America today! People are being offered free
corn by the government. People are being blind to the fences being built
around them by the liberals - the socialists - and that is what frightens
me! Just like it was happening in my homeland. The American people do not
learn from history. And history shows that socialism/communism does not
work. Take note of Russia .
Has socialism been the best thing that ever happened to that country?
Absolutely not! But socialism is what the American people are being fed,
and they don't realize it. All they can focus on is the 'free corn.' They
want more and more of the 'free' corn. And this free corn is being fed to
us little by little, and soon the gate will slam shut. I am very
frightened, and also amazed, that the American people don't see what is
being fed us, and for what purpose."
With that said, the young man sat down at his desk and continued to rub
his painful back. And I was silent in my chair. And afraid. For I could
visualize the supposedly "free corn" being fed to our nation's people, and
our growing addiction to the "free corn." And I could see the gate being
slammed shut. We, the people of the United States of America , because of
our ignorance of history, because of our addiction to the supposedly "free
corn," could soon be prisoners of liberal socialism.
Along with this fighter for freedom from socialism/communism, I, too,
wanted to slam my fists on the desktop and cry out in a loud voice for all
to hear, "Wake up, America! The fences are being built! Don't you see what
is happening to us?"
In the agenda of the new Congress governed by the liberal Democrats, there
is much "free corn" being promised the American people. In our greed for
this "free corn," will we ignore the incremental building of the fences,
and the inevitable shutting of the gate?
As I ponder the building of the fences now underway by the new Congress, I
remember the old adage, 'There is always free cheese in a mousetrap."
It seems the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from
history.
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Let's say we agree,
Why do republicans support using "Big government" and "Our tax money" to save everybody around the World?
Don't you think that those people are thinking the same thing: "The scariest words in the English language are:
I was sent by the US government and I'm here to help"
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