I'm reprinting this story that was originally posted by Rose. I think she posted it to illustrate how getting "free stuff" leads to dependency on the government. But, the story is a two edged sword.....it has two lessons.

"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 c*******ts in his native country who were trying to o*******w his country's government and install a new c*******t 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 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. 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 C*******m/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 entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to."

The first lesson is that government programs provide us with security at the cost of some of our freedom. The second lesson is that when we build fences (or walls) around us for security, we also lose some of our freedom. Trump is eagerly trying to build a wall around us for security. Franklin was incorrectly quoted as saying (but it's a good quote nonetheless), "Those that are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither."

It seems most of our differences here in the Attic is determining how much of each we want. Some want freedom and some want security. Since we can't have both, we have to compromise. Therein lies the problem and is why we the Attic is alive and well.

The President has not lied.
You have NO proof of actual lies.
If your standard for lies is as we all know it to be then obummer, f**e news, hillary and bubba, pelosi and schumer are telling lies each time their lips move.