Cattle Guards

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.

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