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 . The 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 President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden,
intervened with a request that...before any “cattle” guards were fired, they
be given six months of retraining for Arizona border guards. 'Times are
hard', said Joe Biden, 'it's only fair to the cattle guards and their
families!'
*And these two guys are running our country, OMG!*
