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Detroit water dept pays $56,245 every year for a horseshoer, even though it doesn’t own any horses
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| August 20, 2012
| Dan from Squirrel Hill
Posted on 08/20/2012 8:31:16 AM PDT by grundle
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To: Sacajaweau; All
I believe the city still has a mounted division...the horses are part of the city government....Police department...
To: grundle
Little spare time perk there for administrators as in so many other local governments. Further into the economic collapse, they’ll be dining on their horses.
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08/20/2012 12:13:28 PM PDT
by
familyop
(Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: grundle
So, whose nephew has the horseshoer job? Is it forever, or does another connected nephew get it next year?
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08/20/2012 12:29:19 PM PDT
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JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: goat granny
That Detroit has or at least had in the 1960s mounted police force is true. Does the police department have their own horseshoer or do they use the one from the water dept? If the later is the case, why is this part of the water department budget and not the police budget?
I will be truthful. I went to college, lived and worked in Detroit from 1956-1962. I was in Detroit in 2000 at a spot 2 blocks from where I worked and if it wasn’t for the statue of Prometeus on Woodward Ave., I would have had no idea where I was! Pictures that I’ve seen of Detroit since then are even worse than what I saw in person.
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08/20/2012 12:40:34 PM PDT
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Nuocmam
To: Nuocmam
I was also born and raised in Detroit when it was a beautiful city, born 1939. I do know that Coleman Young tried to get rid of the mounted division but I don't think he succeed. As far a farriers being under another department and not the police department, I don't know unless its simply where they stuck it because of budgets for the mounted division...with what has happened in Detroit since the 60âs riots and Mayor Young, (the most racist mayor any city ever had) that whole place has become incomprehensible to me.... The only thing I know is if there is still a mounted division, they have those that attend horses on payroll. I horse needs shoeing, they cannot just look up one in the phone book and know if he's just fair or good enough to deal with mounted division horses....If I remember from getting into my ...way back machine...they also has a man to handle all the leather work that is needed in caring for a horse....anyone that owns a horse knows taking care of ever a couple can cost out the wing/wang...
Horses require a lot of tack work...(I think thats the right work.)
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08/20/2012 1:09:44 PM PDT
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Fledermaus
(Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are useless and useful idiots.)
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