Wrangler ponders the Fork in the Road
The Richest Mule on Earth contemplates his next meal. (Kristi Niemeyer/Leader)
A pal of mine (let’s call him Wrangler to keep him safe from the Not-Really-a-Department of Government Efficiency) works for the federal government and was one of an estimated two million employees who recently received President Trump’s generous early retirement offer.
He apparently could take a “deferred resignation,” and then lounge around until Sept. 30 on the government’s tab (aka the tab paid by you and me).
Sounds kind of luxurious, especially since the work he does – hefting 90-pound packs and bales of hay onto mules and then tugging the famously stubborn critters into the back country, where they occasionally spy grizzlies and the like – isn’t exactly easy.
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