Government view on Cattle Guards

the Coug June 17th 2010, 12:47 am

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. 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 a report that
there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado . Because Colorado
ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, he
ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the guards
immediately.

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

And we PAY these people???

Sometimes it pays to check things out, before you embarrass
yourself....

Government view on Cattle Guards Icon_rolleyes