No Free lunch

[Chiefin]

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 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 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, 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, you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself."

[Last Resort]

[Injun Pete]

[porkchop]

What color is the bear?

[Last Resort]

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. The result is that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

[Micmac]

What color is the bear?

 

He's dead, he got ate up by a panther from Carolina!

[porkchop]

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. The result is that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

 

Power is not a Means it is an End.

One does not establish a Dictatorship in order to safeguard a Revolution.

One makes the Revolution in order to establish the Dictatorship.

[porkchop]

He's dead, he got ate up by a panther from Carolina!

 

Stop it you're killing me!

 

Think I'll have a Polish Sausage for lunch at Hankus'

[indian T]

One should always remember "There is no such thing as a free Lunch!"

"Also, you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself."

 

Thats why I do almost all of the work on my Chief.

[Chief Waldo]

"Also, you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself."

 

That depends... On what your time is worth, and on what you have to give up doing to do the service you could have paid someone to do.

[Boss]

What color is the bear?

 

 

White.

[firebird77clone]

what does this have to do with the bullet in his back?

[whadayawant]

That depends... On what your time is worth, and on what you have to give up doing to do the service you could have paid someone to do.

That's th' long and th' short of it.

[RCH]

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. The result is that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

Exactly why our founding fathers new not to establish a democracy. Pretty fart smellers those guys were. Wish we had some smart fellers in gummint now.

[porkchop]

White.

 

Correct.

 

Now tell me why.

Edited September 17, 2007 by porkchop

[Grumpy]

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. The result is that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

 

Thomas Jefferson

[Maldev]

"Also, you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself."

Bullshit.

It always cost me more to have a professional mechanic fix my work on my motorcycles than if I had taken it to a professional mechanic in the first place.