Cattle Guards

CATTLE GUARDS
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> 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.
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> 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???