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brucedownunder2
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Posted: 06:39am 08 Mar 2011

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I read this and have now decided to never vote for "big Joules" or The Rudder" again ,absolutely disgracefull, poor cattle ,not them , the ones with 4 legs.

A TRUE STORY

Cattle Guards

Australian government at work
You will love this one, I haven't stopped laughing For those of you who have never travelled to the country , 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.

Last year, Kevin Rudd received and was reading a report that there were over 10,000 cattle guards in NSW & Queensland. Graziers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Minister to fire half of the cattle guards immediately!!

Before the Minister could respond and presumably try to straighten him out, Minister for Employment Julia Gillard, intervened with a request that before any cattle guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.

And now she is running the country.

Passed on to you without further comment...

mad as a meat ant Bruce

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Posted: 09:39am 08 Mar 2011

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If they were named properly there would be no confusion as they are cattle "GRATES" not sticking up for Gilly or Ruddy though...Poss

A brave man may not live for long, but a careful man does not live at all.

Barry T Coles

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Posted: 01:17am 09 Mar 2011

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Over here in the West we call them cattle grids.

Main Roads Dept dont use the railway iron that they used to as some-one in the Kimberleys worked out that if you simply painted white lines on the bitumen where the rail lines would be cattle still thought it was a barrier & it works I kid you not.
It's an erie feeling when you come accross them for the first time & you expect the boom boom that you would get from the steel ones as you cross them, there's "nothing".

Cheers
Barry

I need to learn from the mistakes of others.
I dont have the time to make them all myself.

Greenbelt

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Posted: 05:15pm 10 Mar 2011

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brucedownunder2

Good one Bruce,
Here's another piece of master Government work.

Those people who are not familiar with a US Gov. program called "Clunker"
It was a subsidy for the auto industry which would pay the down payment up to $1500,oo for a new car if the Owner of a very old auto would trade it for a new one.
In addition to the Item Below, The cheap old clunkers were purchased by School Kids,
So Clunkers are still on the Road.
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Simple
Math and our
Government at work

The person who

calculated this bit of information is now & has been a professor
at West Virginia University in Morgantown for the last 40-some years.
I never looked at the clunker program in this way.

Think of it this way:
A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800
gallons of gas a year.
A vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons a year.
So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320
Gallons per year.
They claim 700,000 vehicles were taken off the road.
so that's 224 million gallons saved per year.
That equates to a bit
over five million barrels of oil.
Five million barrels is about five hours' worth of US consumption.
More importantly, five million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about
$350 million dollars. So, the government paid $3 billion of our tax
dollars to save $350 million.
Bottom line, we spent $8.57 for every
dollar we saved.

I'm pretty sure they'll do a great job with our health care,

Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True?

VK4AYQ
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Posted: 12:24am 11 Mar 2011

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Hi greenbelt

Blind monkeys would be better than politicians in these instances as they can't talk and sign blank checks against the public purse, my dog would be a better leader of our country than the incumbent, but he lacks one important qualification, HE CAN'T LIE.

So i am afraid the the Blind will continue leading the blind until they all fall into the pit.

All the best

Bob

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