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Goats Are Doing Our Job, Says Union!

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 8 months ago to Humor
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This is both smart and funny.
No fan of unions which are inherently marxist and usurpers by nature but instead of paying for the treatments of poison ivy by union members clearing this property...they brought in goats...which were not only immune to the ivy but I am sure...a whole lot cheaper.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 8 months ago
    Nothing like competition to put a little rationality into the discourse of union leaders. Automation would also be effective in clearing underbrush, especially the autonomous robots.

    Goats are currently cheaper and more efffective and wont sue you, so I think its a great idea.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 8 months ago
    Wonderfully cheaper! The goats are paid in full with the food it is their job to eat.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years, 8 months ago
      Exactly and we don't have to worry about them donating our funds to the opposing political candidate.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 8 months ago
        Excellent point.
        For three years I lived in a rented house next door to a wooded property where five goats were fenced in beside a creek that was bracketed by dense brush anywhere else.
        As for that "wooded" property, it was "wooded" because there were just trees. The grounds were as neat as a park for no bushes, no weeds, no no ivy, none of that invasive kudzu that grows all over Alabama and unfortunately no flowers. There was some grass that never needed to be mowed but the ground was mostly bare earth.
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        • Posted by $ 6 years, 8 months ago
          That was the problem with goats and sheep back in the day because they rip out the grass, roots and all.
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          • Posted by $ Snezzy 6 years, 8 months ago
            No, it's horses that rip out the roots. As long as there is enough grass for the size of the herd, sheep maintain a beautifully mowed lawn. Look at the old 16th or 17th century paintings of fine English homes. Beautiful lawns. Sheep.

            Goats are preferentially browsers (eating brush) rather than grazers like sheep. In the woods they will eat everything up to about four or five feet in the air, leaving you with a nearly unobstructed view through the trees. Cattle much the same, but they really prefer grass.
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  • Posted by Jstork 6 years, 8 months ago
    Perfect. If the union wins, the University and the owner of the goats,(who have entered into a mutual. non-coerced agreement according to the laws of liberty and capitalism) will be forced essentially under the threat of some kind of eventual violence to comply with the government's decision. I would bet that if the union owned the goats and have a paid herder, they would not be complaining. I believe in putting the shoe on the other foot. That is right out of "Atlas Shrugged."
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    • Posted by $ 6 years, 8 months ago
      They do not like competition because they can't compete or do not want to compete with that...like a bunch of jealous brats.

      I have begun to define Competition as two or more entities, dependent upon each other, to achieve the best they can achieve.
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