Cattle Guards





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- CATTLE GUARDS -

For those of you who have never traveled to the great
west, cattle  guards are horizontal steel rails placed
at  fence openings on  highways  to  prevent cattle
from crossing. For some  reason the bovines will
not step on the guards, probably because they fear
getting their feet caught between the rails. I need to
make that clear in  order for everyone to
appreciate the following
story.


President Clinton received a report that there were
over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado.  Because
Colorado ranchers protested his proposed changes in
grazing policies, he ordered Secretary of Interior
Bruce Babbitt  to fire half of the guards immediately.
Before Babbitt could respond, and presumably
straighten him out (maybe),
Colorado's congresswoman Pat Schroeder
intervened with a request that before any of
the cattle guards were fired, they be! given six
months of retraining.
Funny, but the Vice President, Al Gore was in approval
with the firing of the cattle guards.


Source: Unknown




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