Producer Jake says: I guess I need a slap in the face because clearly I'm going crazy, or at least that's what I assumed when I read this earlier today. Guess where 700 Million of your dollars are heading...if you guessed to WILD HORSES (as I'm sure you did) you would be correct. The House Democrats are pushing the “Restore Our American Mustangs Act” (H.R.1018), which would create a new $700 million welfare program for wild horses. Is this really what you thought the stimulus was for? I bet everyone who comments on this could think of at least one area where the "Stimulus" money is better suited other than promoting horse contraceptives.
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don’;t they round these horses up and the sell them?
I live in FL and heard that Ocala was maybe a place where they are taken and you can buy them ?
Do you know anything about this
Someone needs to explain this one to me. Thomas lists this as H.R. 1018, which makes it a House Resolution. How can a House Resolution have a cost of $700 million? Wouldn’t it have to be a H.B. (House Bill)?
The big con job on America. Our Congress is stealing this money for themselves and their political supporters; pure and simple.
The problem will then take care of itself.
How about making this a win-win proposition for the public/taxpayer?
Sell the extra horses & ponies to the zoo’s. Lions and tigers have to eat something.
I would worry about the outcome of conservatives in the USA if I were you and quit worrying about a bunch of horses. Put your energy where it counts: In countering Bozo and the boys, else you may find your self out grazing with the horses in order to survive.
I’m as big a fan of Marguerite Henry as anyone, but wouldn’t it be kinder too slaughter them than let them starve?
Either turn them into pet food or sell them to countries that like to eat horses!
I think the Democrats were voting for a memorial to themselves. They thought the $700 million was for whores and asses.
I worked the Nevada Test Site back in the 80’s and those horses don’t need any damn money. They have plenty of room to roam around.
BLM manages them and captures them when it is determined there are too many on the rangeland. They corral them and feed them at taxpayer expense and try to get people to adopt them at auctions they run in many states but the demand is not there for the numbers they have, especially with the current economy. Also, many of the horses are not horses that people want.
There use to be two or three slaughterhouses in the states that slaughterd horses for human consumption, the meat was shipped to Europe. The horse lovers were outraged and got our government to pass a law that shut them down so now the numbers have become a real problem.
Here's several articles I've filed on the subject, there's many maore if you want to look them up and research it.
Too many horses: Northwest tribes consider slaughter facility for wild horses
They can be very aggressive and I have retreated more than once when a stallion, protecting his group of dames, approached in a menacing manor.
The local herd of proud noble wild horses was turned out by a bankrupt rodeo stock company in 1949.
Talking to a BLM employee, he said anyone using the term “feral horse” gets an official reprimand in his folder.
The horses graze all year and destroy the range. Cattle and sheep are only grazed for a brief period each year to help improve range.
Stuck on a time machine loop are something??? The stimulus has been passed and signed into law for sometime now.
So how in the hell do you think current house business, passed friday, has anything to do with the bogus stimulus. Don't give the liberals ammo to shoot you with.
Someone should remind the government that horses are an invasive species.
This is the result of the misguided attempt to “save” the horses from being sent to slaughter for food.
The result is that both wild horses and domestic horses will wind up starving to death. People who can no longer afford to keep their horses are in some cases turning them loose to fend for themselves. It was far more humane to sell them at auction where someone could benefit from them rather than what the situation is now, where the BLM will have to PAY to have them put down and then do SOMETHING with the huge pile of carcasses to keep vultures from eating them. The medication used to euthanize them would kill any critter feasting on them.