Have you ever thought about it quite like this?

Question

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 of the exchange students, a
>> young man, kept rubbing
>> his back and stretching as if it 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 the 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, "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. When the pigs, who are used
>> to the free corn and
>> walls, 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!

Answer 1

The only true freedom can come when there are no laws.

But if you want to live in a society, you have to abide by laws. It is up to you if you want to live in a society that cares for others, or one that allows you the 'freedom' to die from gun crime, or lack of basic medical care.

As for politics and freedom, check out the link. You will be surprised who is more of a threat to freedom.

Answer 2

Yes, I did. I quite smoking on Nov 15, 2001... I started smoking back in 1964 and was up to 2 packs a day

Answer 3

The government is not pushing for communism/socialism it's maneuvering for a dictatorship, otherwise the analogy/analysis of the situation is correct.

Answer 4

I agree with Robert...this is not a proper comparism to the USA