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!'
