stephen norwood:  

CLASS OF 1979
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Frankfort, IN
Lafayette, IN
Lafayette, IN

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stephen is from Lafayette, Indiana. He is single. His schools include Jefferson High School, Wainwright High School. stephen's interests include In Almost Everything. Music he likes includes Punk Otis, Meytal Cohen, The Doors. Books he likes include Westerns, If Democrats Had Any Brains. Movies he likes include Braveheart, Gladiator, Outlaw josey wales. TV shows he likes include Dallas, The Five on Fox (Fans), Criminal Minds. One of stephen's favorite quotes is:"CATCHING PIGS 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 suddenly looked up 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 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...Expand for more
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 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, someone is paying for it 2) and when you begin to think that having your government provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you've also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email. But God help you when the gate slams shut!". More about stephen:"What about me?".
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