Will the government take away your chickens?

[hemet dennis]

You do not have to lay off the workers at homeland security. Just put them in different positions.

Doing what ?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Then we just lay off everyone in homeland security ?

Should have never been hired. Gonna all be jobless anyway when we run out of credit...

 

[Matthew3590]

Doing what ?

Take homeland security and put it part of the FBI or CIA. Also if they did get fired its not like they will starve to death. They will just get another office job somewhere else with the government.

 

[hemet dennis]

Should have never been hired. Gonna all be jobless anyway when we run out of credit...

Should have never hired FEMA the border patrol the coast guard ?

 

[ChicKat]

Does anybody seriously fear the government will take their chickens? What sort of national emergency do you envisage that would require the general public to hand over their chickens to the government? Surely, in this sort of emergency people will be encouraged to breed and care for more chickens, they may even be incentives. That's what happened in WW2 in Britain during rationing. Isn't the registering of livestock necessary to monitor the movements of animals, important for disease control? Anyone who has witnessed the devastation caused by the spread of foot and mouth disease would not question the need for registration and movement monitoring of livestock. It is the only disease control that is effective.

Good thought newfoundland..... RHranch adds good insights too.

Anthrax, Bovine Spongeform Encephalopahy (I know I spelled BSE wrong-- mad cow disease is what I'm talking about)-- and any pandemic -- tracing livestock would be valuable.

Ridgerunner, thanks for the common sense links! Hope we all remember to think, dig a little deeper and see all sides of the question before the FUD (fear, uncertainty and Doubt) factors set in. I love the idea of Snowflake the rooster too--- sounds like the name is the opposite of the behavior.

 

[hemet dennis]

Take homeland security and put it part of the FBI or CIA. Also if they did get fired its not like they will starve to death. They will just get another office job somewhere else with the government.

The CIA cant work in the U.S. Do you really think the FBI should run the coast guard ?

 

[ChicKat]

I cannot imagine why the government would want my chickens. I guess if you want something to worry about, this is as good a reason as any. That said, some years ago there was a Newcastle disease outbreak in California and the feds, probably from a department of agriculture, were going door to door and checking and vaccinating everybody's chickens. An acquaintance of mine in Buelton had a number of feral chickens free ranging on her place. The feds came to her door and told her she had to catch and pen up her chickens so they could be inspected. She told them she could not catch the chickens. She was right. She couldn't. No one could. They then said that in this case they would just have to destroy her chickens. She handed one of the feds a shotgun and the other a 22 rifle and told them to have at it. At that point the agents decided her five chickens did not pose a threat to avian health, and they left. For some reason, I thought this was very funny at the time. Still do.

y'know.... I agree, it is funny. Luckily too, Newcastle disease didn't wipe out all the chickens in California! LOL.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Quote: No, should have never been needed...

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Quote:
CIAs job is to find threats an relay that info to the FBI who do work inside the USA. If they did that job why would we need homeland security? If they cant do that job why would you think homeland security could?

 

[hemet dennis]

A small group of people that decide to do something to us are almost impossible to catch before hand.