Amazing! Surely Not

Started by Judy Harder, June 18, 2010, 07:29:52 AM

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Judy Harder

I presume this is true...  AMAZING!    SURELY NOT


Your government at work...

You will love this one, I haven't stop laughing yet.....

For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.

A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado .  Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the "cattle" guards immediately!!

Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that.. before any "cattle" guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.

And these guys are running our country, OMG!!


Passed on to you without further comment....

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Mom70x7

It's a funny story, but Snopes says it's false:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/cattleguards.asp


Snopes says it possibly started as a joke printed in a newspaper (in the jokes section).

It also has variations involving people from the East (Connecticut) visiting the west.

frawin

Judy, I love it and given the 2 main players, it is believable to me.

pamagain

 Yeah it IS funny. The version I got was ACLU lawyers tho LOL

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