Congress does it again???

[Jack]

Here are a couple links to what is in H.R 1018, known as The Mustang Act.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1018/show
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1018
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills...1_HR_1018.html
I see nothing in the text of the bill about horse condoms or horse abortions.

[bulletpusher]

Jack,

I have not read the bill as of yet, I just reported what was on the radio, from 3 different comentators at 3 different times of the day on 2 different radio stations.

My complaint is about the $700,000.00 spent on population control of horses that was reported on the radio.

I can remimber when I was a youngster the radio reports and newspaper reports about the government spending money (millions and millions) on things like "Studies to find out how a bumble bee fly's, can frisbees be used as flares, etc., etc. It appears that the government has not changed even after all of these years, the commie liberal demicrats where in power then also.

I can tell you the conversations about the horse condums and abortatons was broadcast live over the air waves.

Take it for what its worth.

[GoodOlBoy]

* On Friday July 17, the House of Representatives met to debate . . . Go on, take a guess: Health care? The cap-and-tax racket? Stimulus Two? No, none of the above. Don’t worry, they’re still spending your money. Wild horses couldn’t stop them doing that. The Bill provides condoms for horses.

The welfare mustangs are supposed to be put up for adoption. But, what with the government taking all our money to fund the Barney Frank Institute of Bureaucracy Studies, many of us no longer have the necessary discretionary income to stable a mustang in the rec room. A lot of the nags in managed-care facilities are getting a bit long in the tooth, and thus unlikely ever to find homes. So, rather than go on attempting to flog near-dead horses, the BLM was considering inviting the seniors to do the decent thing and sign up for assisted suicide or, in the designated euphemism, death with dignity. In the Netherlands, pretty much everyone over 47 who goes into hospital for a minor hernia winds up getting talked into death with dignity. Given that mustangs were introduced to America by the Spanish, its not inappropriate that they should meet a European end. With all this in mind congress decided to mandate enhanced contraception for horses and burros. Yes that’s right $700 million for Horse Condoms.

http://monroerising.com/2009/07/20/b...horse-condoms/

didn't take much of a search to find about 50 websites with this information in it.

GoodOlBoy

[GoodOlBoy]

House Democrats plan to hold a vote on the “Restore Our American Mustangs Act” (H.R.1018), which would create a new $700 million welfare program for wild horses. This floor action comes at a time when unemployment has soared to 9.5 percent, a 26-year high, and the federal deficit has grown to a historic $1 trillion.

“There are serious issues facing our country right now and it’s absurd that Democrat leaders believe that spending $700 million to pamper wild horses is the best use of our time and Americans’ tax dollars,” said Ranking Member Hastings. “Instead of restoring American mustangs, let’s restore American jobs and put the horsepower back into our economy.”

Here’s what HR1018 proposes to do with the $700 million:

* Conducts a horse census every two years
* Provides “enhanced contraception” and birth control for horses
* Establishes an additional 19 million acres of public and private land for wild horses
* Covers $5 million tab to repair horse damage to land
* Mandates that government bureaucrats perform home inspections before Americans can adopt horses

Birth control … for horses. How exactly does that restore the mustang population? If it needs “restoring”, doesn’t that suggest that we need to encourage reproduction rather than launching a mustang safe-sex program? Of course, mustang rubbers would make each successive “horse census” easier, assuming mustangs can figure out how to wear them.

And what exactly does a government inspection of a home for “adopting” a mustang mean? It sounds like a back-door way for the federal government to interfere with horse sales, or at best a wildly stupid idea about the role of the federal government in relation to American homes and pet adoption. Note that the federal government does not do home inspections for human adoption; those get handled by state governments.

Of course, it’s the third point that really means anything at all. It’s a land grab. Congress wants to condemn another 19 million acres of land for their own control, and they’re using the mustangs as an excuse. It’s transparent, and transparently stupid in the middle of this economic crisis. Democrats need to quit laying money on the horses — and while they’re at it, quit betting with House money on socialist schemes.

from another site. . . .

GoodOlBoy