FREE CORN?

I came across this while I was reading today and thought I would share; some thoughts to ponder.  It goes with the saying, "Be careful what you ask for."

Something for Nothing   

"I don't know about you but I'm getting awful tired of the entitlement mentality. As a culture we have become so programmed and trained to run to the call of FREE.   We have become so programmed for wanting faster, cheaper and more, that quality and service have often become secondary.

This has also spilled over into our work ethic.  Please understand, I am generalizing here. As an employer, we see far too many, who work for a few days or weeks and then tell us, the job is not what they thought it was.  They don't want to work this hard.  In days gone by, men took pride in being a hard worker and giving an honest days work for a fair wage.  We don't see this as much today.  Too often our youth are looking for "an easy job" that doesn't require too much.

Could it be that this Something for Nothing attitude and behavior is by design?  Let me share with you an analogy:  

"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, which are used to the free corn, begin to come through the gate to eat the free corn.

"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."

This is exactly what many of us see happening in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as Social Security, tax credit for unearned income, sugar and other farm subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, Medicare, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.  In advertising, the Something for Nothing philosophy is echoed in mantras such as you "you deserve a break today" and "you owe it to yourself" reinforce too often that we are entitled to benefits we may not have fully earned.    

  

We should not be opposed to a good deal and working toward cost effectiveness and savings.  However, the "Something for Nothing" attitude has strings attached and the old saying that "There is no such thing as a free lunch" is still true."