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RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!
7/14/2010, 12:45 AM
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
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 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, 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 cuts, 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:

1) There is no such thing as a free lunch

2) 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.

Do you think the free ride is essential to your way of
life?

God help you when the gate slams shut!

AMERICA ,The home of the Free
Because of the Brave

MR2-Sooner86
7/14/2010, 01:12 AM
Got to love Neal Boortz.

ddub0224
7/14/2010, 12:00 PM
great analogy

Serge Ibaka
7/14/2010, 01:08 PM
It's funny because RLIMC hates the Welfare State.

Leroy Lizard
7/14/2010, 01:28 PM
You may have to explain the joke.

C&CDean
7/14/2010, 01:32 PM
I just got half-a-hog back from the butcher last Saturday. My neighbor and I split one that hung at 345 lbs. The sausage is the best I've ever ate, and the pork chops (you get LOTS of pork chops on a 345 lb hog) are great too. The ham, bacon, and shoulder meat comes next weekend. Oh yeah, he wasn't hard to catch at all. Backed up the trailer, opened the gate, and shooed him right into the trailer. Piece of cake.

KC//CRIMSON
7/14/2010, 02:55 PM
I wonder how many times RLIMC and Tuba have rubbed one out to Animal Farm?

Look ya'll, Napoleon the pig is just like Barak!

Tulsa_Fireman
7/14/2010, 02:57 PM
AMERICUH! F*%K YEAH!

Comin' again to save the mutha f*%kin' representative republic, not the democracy, yeah!

OUMallen
7/14/2010, 03:08 PM
What is the tax credit for unearned income? Is that confusing the Earned Income Credit? Unearned income (i.e.- investment income) doesn't have any real CREDIT involved to it, does it?

Frozen Sooner
7/14/2010, 03:54 PM
you can never hire someone to provide a service
for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Whoever wrote this fails miserably at economics. Like at the level of not even understanding how economies work at all.

Serge Ibaka
7/14/2010, 04:02 PM
Whoever wrote this fails miserably at economics. Like at the level of not even understanding how economies work at all.

Oh c'mon and submit to its pathos. What's there not to love? A hardworking foreigner perusing the American dream with a commie's bullet in his back? A tidy analogy involving farm animals???

Anybody who doesn't love this is a P**sy America-hater who should give his land back to the engines.

GottaHavePride
7/14/2010, 09:04 PM
Whoever wrote this fails miserably at economics. Like at the level of not even understanding how economies work at all.

I'd like to see someone provide themselves cable TV cheaper than the TV company. I mean, that's a lot of wire to get out and lay all the way across town. And that's without even taking it to the extreme of saying "buy some damn cameras and film your own shows before you watch them."

Frozen Sooner
7/14/2010, 09:07 PM
I'd like to see someone provide themselves cable TV cheaper than the TV company. I mean, that's a lot of wire to get out and lay all the way across town. And that's without even taking it to the extreme of saying "buy some damn cameras and film your own shows before you watch them."

Seriously. What's really funny is the person who wrote that implicitly accepts Marx's labor theory of value.

tommieharris91
7/14/2010, 09:23 PM
Whoever wrote this fails miserably at economics. Like at the level of not even understanding how economies work at all.
Yea, I'd like to see owners of large companies run all aspects of their business by themselves.

tommieharris91
7/14/2010, 09:29 PM
What is the tax credit for unearned income? Is that confusing the Earned Income Credit? Unearned income (i.e.- investment income) doesn't have any real CREDIT involved to it, does it?

You've been to law school. Here ya go. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sup_01_26_10_A_20_1.html)

Anyway, investment income is income. There's a lot of different types of invest income defined under the IRC.

Frozen Sooner
7/14/2010, 10:06 PM
th:

He knows it's income. There's a difference between earned income (wages, salaries, tips, etc.) and unearned income (interest, investment income, etc.)

Frozen Sooner
7/14/2010, 10:06 PM
Yea, I'd like to see owners of large companies run all aspects of their business by themselves.

I was more going along the premise of comparative and absolute advantages. You know, stuff they teach like the first few days of Intro to Macro.

tommieharris91
7/14/2010, 11:04 PM
th:

He knows it's income. There's a difference between earned income (wages, salaries, tips, etc.) and unearned income (interest, investment income, etc.)
There is not a tax credit for unearned income. There are deductions, both for and from adjusted gross income, for unearned income, but not credits. As I said earlier, unearned income is treated differently than earned income, and some forms of unearned income are treated differently than others.


I was more going along the premise of comparative and absolute advantages. You know, stuff they teach like the first few days of Intro to Macro.
Yea, I was thinking about the concept of opportunity cost a little while after I posted that.

Frozen Sooner
7/14/2010, 11:41 PM
Th, I think you're arguing with people who agree with you

tommieharris91
7/14/2010, 11:43 PM
Maybe I should read things on these here boards every now and then.

There's a reason why I've got RLIMC on ignore. That thing was failtacular.

49r
7/15/2010, 09:29 AM
I'd like to see someone provide themselves cable TV cheaper than the TV company. I mean, that's a lot of wire to get out and lay all the way across town. And that's without even taking it to the extreme of saying "buy some damn cameras and film your own shows before you watch them."

To be fair, the original quote was "services that you can perform yourself". With the operative term here being CAN. Obviously cable service doesn't apply here. I think he's talking about simple services like shoveling snow yourself or mowing your own lawn are always cheaper if done yourself.

Now, this is still fail because you have to account for the opportunity cost, sunk costs, etc. But the cable argument is kinda strawman. :D

Frozen Sooner
7/15/2010, 09:32 AM
To be fair, the original quote was "services that you can perform yourself". With the operative term here being CAN. Obviously cable service doesn't apply here. I think he's talking about simple services like shoveling snow yourself or mowing your own lawn are always cheaper if done yourself.

Now, this is still fail because you have to account for the opportunity cost, sunk costs, etc. But the cable argument is kinda strawman. :D

Actually, that's not how the quote read in the OP. "you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself"

49r
7/15/2010, 09:45 AM
Actually, that's not how the quote read in the OP. "you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself"

Okay mister semantics. :D The inference though is that it's a service that one can do himself.

In either case, I agree. It's a horrible statement...way over simplistic. But I suppose that's the appeal of these chain e-mail things, they appeal to a lower common denominator.