The Beginning of Socialism in America

Over time I seem to have noticed that in this country more and more often laws are passed that take more and more of our money in the form of taxes and use that money to pay for other people to live comfortably. The other day I received an email about a foreign man who had come to America from some country in which socialists were trying to overthrow the government. Part of this story was an analogy that I found very interesting so I have decided to post it.

In the story the man is talking and asked the question, “Do you know how to catch wild pigs? 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, then 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 man in the story says that it is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward 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, Medicare, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.