Not sure if this is true but the fact that most people would think it was is telling in itself...

Not sure if this is true but the fact that most people would think it was is telling in itself...
Begin forwarded message:LAUGH TO KEEP FROM CRYING ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !  Joe asks for 6 months of retraining for 'Cattle Guards!' You will love this one, I haven't stopped shaking my head.
For those of you who have never traveled to the west or south, cattle guardsare horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places inthe roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to preventcattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably becausethey fear getting their hooves caught between the rails.
A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report thatthere were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. The Colorado ranchers hadprotested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered theSecretary of the Interior to fire half of the "cattle" guards immediately!Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try tostraighten President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden,intervened with a request that...before any "cattle" guards were fired, theybe given six months of retraining.'Times are hard,' said Joe Biden, 'it's only fair to the cattle guards andtheir families be given six months of retraining! 'And these two guys are running the USA, Passed on to you without further comment. 

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