Got this email this morning and sounds about right:

 

 

Subject: Fw: How to trap wild pigs

 

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

 

 

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, an 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 regime.

 

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 every day 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 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.

 

One should always remember two truths: There is no
such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire
someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do it yourself.

 

If you see that all of this wonderful government
"help" is a problem confronting the future of
democracy in America, you might want to send this on
to your friends. If you think the free ride is
essential to your way of life, then you will probably
delete this e-mail. But, God help us all when the
gate slams shut!

 

 

"Hogs, we've been penned!"

That pretty much sums if up.....but like cattle in the slaughter line they watch what's happening in front of them and just don't get it....

I checked Snopes.  Turns out the pigs were too smart to fall for that. 

It was Thomas Jefferson Anderson who coined the phrase; "fellow hogs, we've been fenced" using the analogy of capturing pigs in a corral. That was back in the 60's. Anderson was an ultra-conservative member of the John Birch Society. In the 70's, he ran for vice-president and then president on the American Party ticket.