Everyone who profits off the industry should be made to pay into a mandatory Equine Re-Homeing or Retirement Fund. The problem is, according to those "in the know" like Marsha Naify, chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners of California , owners and breeders "just dont want" to give. (See article, "CHRB Supports Owners Plan for Retired Racehorses," by Jack Shinar, pub. in Bloodhorse News, July 20, 2007) Sound a bit like the Big-Oil Barons or the World Bank and/or Federal Reserve? Not one dime of their billion dollar profits do they want to give to help correct a problem that they mostly created.
Why dont they want to give, even just a little?
George Soros,
http://www.soros.org/about/bios/a_soros
global financier, multi-billionaire economists' & philanthropist said it all when asked during a House Sub-Committe Meeting on economics, last spring. The question was put to him as to why the World Bank and the Federal Reserve refuse to help out our Nations ailing economy,....his answer was shocking but true; He answered,.."We all are addicted to money,...we are like drug addicts and money is our fix. We never have enough and what we do have we want to keep." Guess nobody ever told Ole George that addiction is a disease, and a "less then desirable" human "character flaw" and that there is TREATMENT and a CURE for it. Maybe its time for some rehab for the greedy sobs'.
