From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   CALIFORNIA:   
      
   The Governor of California is jogging with his dog on a nature trail. A coyote   
   jumps out and attacks the governor's dog, then bites the governor. The   
   governor starts to intervene, then reflects on the movie BAMBI and realizes he   
   should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.   
      
   He calls animal control, which bills the state $200 for disease testing and   
   $500 dollars for relocating the coyote.   
      
   The governor calls a veterinarian, who collects the dead dog and bills the   
   state $200 for disease testing and $1000 for disposing of the corpse.   
      
   The governor goes to hospital, spends $3500 getting checked for diseases and   
   infection and getting his bite wound stitched up and bandaged.   
      
   The nature trail is shut down for six months while Fish & Game conducts a   
   $100,000 survey to ensure the area is now free of dangerous animals.   
      
   The governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a coyote awareness   
   program for residents of the area.   
      
   The state legislature spends $2,000,000 to determine how to better treat   
   rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.   
      
   The governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack and the   
   state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special   
   training regarding coyote threat management.   
      
   PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million lawsuit against   
   the state.   
      
      
   TEXAS:   
      
   The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog on a nature trail. A coyote   
   jumps out and attacks the governor's dog. The governor shoots the coyote with   
   his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging.   
      
   The governor has spent 50 cents on a .45-caliber hollow point cartridge. The   
   buzzards eat the dead coyote.   
      
   And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.   
      
      
   (h/t to anim8r for finding this for me.)   
      
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