On the recordMay 7, 1996
even on tax freedom day it never ends. Government bureaucrats maintain that California cowbirds lay their eggs in the nest of California gnat catchers, forcing the gnat catcher to raise the little cowbirds. Now, since the gnat catcher is on the endangered species list, the bureaucrats have decided to gas the cowbirds. Now, if this is not enough to ruffle our tarfeathers here, my colleagues, they will spend $67 million to kill California cowbirds. What is next folks? A Government grant for cowbirds to lobby Bruce Babbitt? Aid for dependent cowbirds? Tax credits to adopt the California cowbirds? Is it any wonder we have a $5 trillion debt? I submit these are not normal Government bureaucrats. These are turkeys. Anybody who would spend $67 million to help one endangered species, a gnat catcher, and make another species, a cowbird, an endangered species, needs a proctologist, not a psychiatrist.
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