Wild Pigs and Other Things  by Tom Reynolds

How to catch wild pigs:

Find a suitable place where wild pigs frequent and place an adequate amount of corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn.
When they are used to coming every day, put a fence down one side of the area where they are used to coming.  When they get used to the section of fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that small change in environment and start to eat again. You continue this process until you have all four sides of the fence up, with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to eating the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat.
When you see that they all are peacefully eating the free corn, you slam the gate shut 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. They eventually accept their situation and soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are now owned.

Nobody provides something of value without getting something in return.  Ask the mouse why the cheese in the trap is free.

If the government controls any entitlement, they can take it away as they see fit.

Once the government provides you food, the government can control what you eat and if you eat. 

Once the government controls healthcare and medicine, the government can control if you are valuable enough to live. 

Once a government provides you with basic utilities, the government can decide when to turn them off or on. 

Once the government pays for your education, the government can control what is in your education and what career you pursue.

Once the government pays for your housing, the government can control where you live. 

Reread the above but, if you are a Democrat, replace “government” in the above with “Trump” and if you are a Republican, replace “government” in the above with either “Pelosi” or “Biden” or “Cuomo” or “Schumer”.  That’s the reality of what giving control to the government really means.

Once the government gets you to agree to gun control, you have no way to prevent the government from doing all of the above.  (Other than, of course, voting and preventing any of the above from happening.)

There is no such thing as a Free Lunch!  Someone is going to pay for it now and eventually everyone is going to end up paying for it later. And when you rely on someone else to take care of it, it will be very expensive and will probably not be done as well as it could have been, because you had no choice and will have to do what the government says and take what the government decides to give you.