Texas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote (just for laughs)

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   GA Andersonposted 5 years ago

   I admit there is a bit of a jab here, but even without it, the story is cute.
   
   Texas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote
   January 14, 2011 by Dan Mitchell
   
   "I’ve already had a couple of blog posts commenting on how Texas is kicking California’s you-know-what. Being a fiscal policy person, I always point to California’s punitive state income tax as an example of bad policy and highlight the absence of any income tax in Texas to explain the success of that state."
   
   "But sometimes it’s just culture and attitude. Here’s a joke comparing the two states, but it’s based on something that actually happened in Texas."
   
   CALIFORNIA:
   The Governor of  California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out, bites the Governor and attacks his dog.
   
   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 for testing it for diseases.
   
   4. The Governor goes to the 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 to implement 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 somehow and for letting the  Governor attempt to intervene.
   
   9. An additional cost to the State of California:  $75,000 to hire and train a new security agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.
   
   10. PETA protests the coyote ’s relocation and files suit against the State.
   
   TEXAS:
   The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A Coyote jumps out, bites the Governor’s leather boot, 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, boys and girls, is why California is broke………..And, more importantly, why too much government doesn’t work."
   
   GA

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      Miebakagh57posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Hi, GA, is this a reality? Thanks.

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         GA Andersonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         It was a made-up joke Miebakagh57, but it is also a fair caricature of what many feel the real political situation is in those two states.
         
         You can look at it as a "loose" analogy.
         
         GA

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            Miebakagh57posted 5 years agoin reply to this

            Hi, GA, thank you. joke aside, so the coyote teaches the governor an economic, a judicial, and health lesson? Thanks.

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   Wesman Todd Shawposted 5 years ago

   An absolutely perfect example of the exact sort of economic and judicial mindsets, and how one is clearly superior to the other, in terms of success.
   
   Hey, I love Texas, it's my home. I lived for a season in northern California in 2009. I was living in Seaside, which is very near to Monterrey.  Anyway, one day I was driving, probably going to Starbucks, which was the only place I could get a wifi signal, and going through the neighborhood I saw a woman pushing her infant in a stoller on the sidewalk. Maybe just 50 feet behind her on the sidewalk was a coyote.
   
   The coyote was limping. It had a bit of a gimpy leg. I was horrified by this. You almost will NEVER see a coyote in the daylight in Texas unless you are somewhere far removed from sidewalks, and women pushing infants in baby strollers. I panicked. I thought surely this coyote was going to attack her, or her baby.
   
   Well, traffic situations changed. There were people behind me wanting to move forward. Nobody was hollering at the woman to tell her to look out, and so I figured it was just another nonsensical California thing, and that surely the police would show up, and fine the coyote for using a sidewalk, and not a designated nature trail, or something.

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   RTalloniposted 5 years ago

   There will surely be comments re the broader applications of this coyote analogy...

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      GA Andersonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Yep, the source link for the joke did just that.
      
      GA

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 5 years ago

   - yes, Mr. M, it is here in CA ... and getting worse.
   
   ... and this thread should not be for laughs but for serious discussion.

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      Miebakagh57posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      "-yes, Mr. M, ...' I am getting used to it seriously! If Mr. M means Miebakagh. Thanks.

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