Cowboy Coffee House Fodder

Cowboy Coffee House Fodder

Susan Allen
Susan Allen

 

The disconnect between this president and agriculture just keeps growing and along with great frustration comes a few good coffee shop jokes. I’m Susan Allen stay tuned for OpenRange. With the EPA wanting to fine farmers and ranchers for dust, the recent wolf fiasco in Idaho and USDA’s Secretary Tom Vilsack virtually ignoring the beef industries request for a economic analysis of it’s grain inspection, (even after receiving calls from one hundred and fifteen members of the US House of Representatives and several U.S. Senators,)  it is obvious why the Obama administration has become the butt of jokes. One that has been bouncing around cattle country goes like this. (First for those of you traveling through the west and catching this program, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, next  to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing into that area. Cattle will not step on the "guards," because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.) Anyway, a few months ago, President Obama received a report that there were over 10,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Because Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, Obama 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. I’m Susan Allen
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