California:
The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.
A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor’s dog, then bites the Governor.
1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie “Bambi”
and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is only doing what is natural.
2. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the
State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State
$200 testing it for diseases.
4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for
diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts
a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is free of dangerous animals.
6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a “coyote
awareness program” for residents of the area.
7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies
and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
8. The Governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. State spends
$150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.
9. PETA protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million suit against the State.
West Virginia:
The Governor of West Virginia is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A Coyote
jumps out and attacks his dog.
1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued pistol and keeps jogging.
The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
2. The Buzzards eat the dead coyote.
And that’s why California is broke.
September 22, 2010 at 10:55 pm
A very teachable example.
WV , despite the independent streak of its populants is still required to implement whatever cocamaimie regulations that are thrust upon it by the feds. AND the tax burdens .
When you add up the costs of excessive enviro and employment regs , federal ownership of car and insurance companies , govt mandated healthcare , spending off the charts , its no wonder the economys in the toilet.
While idiots scream about businesses relocating overseas and American cities bulldozing whole abandoned neighborhoods , they dont hesitate to pull the voting levers for the same spendaholic bleeding heart pols that gave us the mess.
When they first get elected they may exercise some restraint. But if they stay in DC they turn rotten.
A simple way to turn off the spigot is to enforce the term limits rule YOURSELF , by simply never reelecting any incumbent.
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