Catching Wild Pigs
Karl Marx once said, “Remove one freedom per generation, and soon you will have no freedoms and no one will have noticed.”
One day while the class was in the lab, a professor noticed one young man, 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 that 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.
Then, the student 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 punchline. 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 food.
When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. At first, they are scared, but 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 I see happening in many countries. The governments keep pushing us towards Communism/Socialism and keep spreading the free corn out in the form of programmes such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, Free / subsidised Rations , Caste Benefits, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops, welfare entitlements, 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, and
2. 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, there is hope.
If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then God help you when the gate slams shut!
Most of the problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living
Book review – The art of War by Sun Tzu
10 lessons from The Art of War by Sun Tzu:
1. Know your enemy and know yourself. This is the most important lesson in The Art of War. If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.
2. Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. This is a lesson about deception. By appearing weak when you are strong, you can trick your enemy into underestimating you.
3. Attack where the enemy is unprepared. This is a lesson about surprise. By attacking where the enemy is unprepared, you can gain an advantage.
4. Make use of spies. Spies can provide you with valuable information about your enemy.
5. Use terrain to your advantage. The terrain can be a powerful tool in battle. By understanding the terrain, you can use it to your advantage.
6. Be flexible. The situation on the battlefield is constantly changing. You need to be flexible in order to adapt to these changes.
7. Concentrate your forces. Don’t spread your forces too thin. Instead, concentrate your forces on a single point of attack.
8. Strike at the enemy’s heart. The heart of the enemy is their will to fight. If you can break the enemy’s will to fight, you will win the battle.
9. Use deception. Deception is a powerful tool in war. By deceiving your enemy, you can gain an advantage.
10. Know when to retreat. Sometimes, the best course of action is to retreat. By retreating, you can preserve your forces for future battles.
These are just a few of the many lessons that can be learned from The Art of War.
This book is a classic for a reason. It is full of wisdom that can be applied to all aspects of life, not just war.
About Jacinda Aderns new ‘award’
Do you think Jacinda deserved a damehood?
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/saint-jacinda-becomes-a-dame/
It obviously wasn’t for causing the most racial division by a PM or any of these:
The Day Jacinda resigned, news was pushed aside of food price inflation data released showing the highest rate of increase in more than 30 years.
Sixty-four percent of Kiwis, across all ages, believe New Zealanders are more divided than ever.Violent crime is up 30 percent. Retail crime is up 40 percent.
Gang memberships are up over 60 percent and in five of our police districts we have more gang members than we now have police officers.Number of attacks on police has almost doubled in last 2 years.
3,500 families live in motels paid by the tax payer, and over 400 families live in cars.Number of Kiwis living in cars has more than quadrupled since 2017.
Gross debt figure is now $722.62 Billion, up 47% from 5 years ago.
Under Jacinda, tax take in 2017 was $69 billion, now it is $107 billion, an increase of $38 billion in tax every year = over $100 million in extra tax every single day! That’s $17,500 in extra tax per household each year.Average weekly rent in 2017: $400, in 2023 up 50% to $600.
37,000 more kids are in benefit dependant homes than when Labour’s government took power 5 years ago.Stats NZ data showed a deficit of $10.5 billion between export earnings and import costs for the year ended June, the highest annual deficit since current records began in 1960.
Ram-raids on retailers have soared under Labour, with a more than 500 per cent increase within the first six months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2018.
In a multi nation survey involving 12000 people, NZ is now ranked 51st out of 52 countries for best place to live, no.52 was Kuwait.
This was a Government elected to make housing affordable, help those less well off, reduce child poverty, and give us a kinder, more united society. On every front, it could not have failed more profoundly.316 foreign entertainers, including 64 DJs, were fast-tracked through MIQ in 2021.
Taxpayers have spent $1.2 billion on MIQ – $660 for every household in the country.
Labour has taken away all healthcare targets. Every single healthcare metric has gone backwards in the last five years, even though Labour has increased healthcare spending by 68%.
Doctor GP waiting times are now 5th to bottom of OECD countries (38 countries). Access to GP’s is the first thing to go in a failing health system.
Patients waiting for specialists for over a year has gone up 17 fold since 2019.
Emergency Department wait times are now the worst in at least a decade, with more than one in five people waiting at least six hours for treatment.
Ramping hours (Ambulances sitting outside ER waiting to get patients in) went from 3000 hours per in 2019 quarter to 9756 hours per quarter in 2023.Burglaries crime stats:
49% were under 18 years old, and 51% of those did not face court action. 112 between 0-17 arrested received a family group conference – that’s it.
Most were just formal or informal warnings. 94 didn’t receive any consequence whatsoever.25% drop in prisoners, just ‘let out’ doing community sentences, while there has been an increase in offending against prisoner officers.
For more than three decades, the Swiss Institute for Management and Development (IMD) has compiled annual rankings of competitiveness for 63 of the world’s most important countries. Back in 2017 when Labour took power, New Zealand ranked #16 – ahead of Australia at #21. Five years on, New Zealand has fallen to #31, while Australia is now ranked #19.
Over the past few years, we have plunged in economic performance, falling from 22nd to 47th place.
Government efficiency has also deteriorated markedly from 7th to 17th place.Consumer confidence in New Zealand now stands at the lowest level since Westpac’s Consumer Confidence survey began in 1988.
And, perhaps most damningly, for the first time, a majority has a negative 5-year outlook on the economy.After 6 years of a Labour government, emissions have increased and the importing and burning of coal has more than doubled – all after Jacinda declared climate change is her ‘Nuclear free moment’.
Govt car fleet grown 16% for past 3 years and 1000 of them are petrol or Diesel, their stated ambition on being EV by 2025 is a joke.
Public sector managers have been growing at nearly twice the rate of frontline workers since the current Government came to power.More than 100,000 students were chronically absent from school.
70% of NZ businesses have no confidence in this government to steer them through the economic down turn.Nearly 5000 New Zealand nurses have registered to work in Australia since August. As of March 4th 2023, only 1 nurse has arrived from overseas in NZ.
2023: 19,000 nurses have left the profession in the last 5 years under this Labour government. In 2017 it was under 3000 leaving compared to 5000 leaving in last year – a 60% increase in nurses leaving.
80,000 public submissions opposing Three Waters were not only ignored by Labour, they then tried to sneak entrenchment through.
In December 2022, NZ 13-year-olds recorded their worst-ever score in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.”
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