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I normally try to avoid posting my opinion but I for one and so tired of the government and it's not just the USDA and their circus of an inspection process.

What makes me more angry than anything is our so called 'leader's in Washington have just bent over backwards and allowed animal rights people to shove whatever up their rear-ends and not even listen to people with sense anymore. I will make no secret about it. I despise animal rights groups. They are nothing but a bunch of tree huggin', lack of common sense, waste of space there ever was.

It INFURIATES me that my tax dollars are being spent for some nut to crawl around on the ground looking for a hair out of place on a horse when I drive everyday past a field of horses here in my hometown that are STARVING and they care more about a show horse's foot than they do about a dying horse. Tell me, what is WRONG with that picture? Absolutely everything!

The government has no right to tell you what you can or can not spend your money on, what you an wear, what you can do to something you own, where or what you can have sex with, or what you can do with your life. PERIOD. And ever so slowly, that is what they are doing. Slowly, they are putting bans and restrictions into our daily lives to pretty soon, we might as well live somewhere else. The way this country is ran today is NOT what our four fathers intended it to be.

And not to sound like a bible thumper but the bible does say God put animals here for OUR use and OUR enjoyment. I don't believe in beating animals but if someone wants to put pads and chains on horse and show him in an arena, by goodness, that is our right and who does the government think they are telling us we can't, which is what they are doing. People spend more money on show horses than some people do their kids. Do you really think they are going to do something that will hurt the horse. The USDA will not stop until the pads are gone, til the chains are gone, and until the we are all riding daisy stepping horses around an arena. (Nothing wrong with pleasure horses, I own two). Next thing, they will tell us bits are too harsh.

ElamCreekFarms - No offense, but I don't expect you to understand the USDA concept because you believe a horse can rack 47 mph! ChainMan is right, you do need to see a doctor! DQP inspectors are different than USDA inspectors and you just haven't ran into the right one yet.

It's like this. If we were 100% compliant, it would not matter. If the USDA runs out of tickets to write, they are out of a job. So, we will never be 100% compliant because as long as there is a quota to be made, they will find whatever to write tickets for. That's not enforcing the horse protection act, that's looking for something that isn't there.

You want abuse? Go look at all these starving horses that in the fields today because the idiots in Washington listened to tree huggers saying 'aww, poor horsies! Don't kill them, they are our friends!" Ok. Let's ban horse slaughter so the horses will not die a quick death and feed someone overseas. Now, the horses have no where to go. Market value has bottomed out and people are turning horses out to fend for themselves because they can't take them to the meat market anymore.

Now look. They are wasting MORE tax dollars trying to figure out what to do with all the horses and my two year old cousin even knows the answer to that problem - reopen slaughter houses! No wonder the economey is shot to hadies. Horse slaughter alone was a 10 billion dollar a year business for the states.

If something doesn't change, I'm going to have to start photographing dog shows. Well, that is until the USDA says Rover is not allow to wear a collar because it's cruel and usual! Give me a break!

Excuse me, I have to go take my blood pressure medicine!

- Natasha
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