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 Several years ago, a high ranking bureaucratic clown (clone) in
     Washington, D.D., threatened to cut off federal highway funds to New
     Mexico unless the state fired at least 50 Percent of its cattle guards.
     Seems that the cattle guards were not meeting unemployment reporting
     requirements, not paying social security or withholding taxes, and
     because many of the cattle guards were working on federally funded
     highway projects, the (the cattle guards) were in violation of just
     about every federal mandate for employer-emplyee reporting requirements
     that existed at the time.

     Please understand that cattle guards are more or less unique to the
Western
     United States, but they are used in every other state in the Union.

     But here we go again.

     As reported in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the January
     1995, New Mexico Stockman Magazine, President Bill Clinton was made aware
     of the  fact that there were 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. And
because
     Clinton was (is) so upset with the rancher's protests over his grazing
     policies, he directed interior Secretary Bruce Babbit to fire half the
     cattle guards immediately (Babbit is from a ranching family, certainly he
     knew what cattle guards were). According to published reports, before
     Babbit could act on Clinton's orders, U.S. representative (Colorado) Pat
     Schroeder intervened with a request that before any of the cattle guards
     were fired, they would be given six months of retraining.

     this is the epitome of ignorance and a major reason why a great many
     elected officials, including a bunch of bureaucrats, need to be
divested of
     their authority at the polls or by Congressional refusal to fund various
     federal agencies and programs.

     The American taxpayer pays people like Schroeder $130,000 a year. For
what?
     We do not need to discuss the President's salary.

     For those who may be uninformed, a cattle guard is a wood or metal devise
     that is set in the ground between fences in place of a gate so that
     vehicles can cross, but cattle (including horses and other livestock will
     not). Cattle guards do not breathe, do not pay taxes and are not
citizens.

     I can not help but wonder how many people, now out of work, would have
     applied for the non-existent cattle guard jobs of those who were fired?

     Perhaps, if you have a moment, you might enlighten both President Clinton
     and Representative Schroeder of those facts.



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