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Federal rules leave drought-stricken California high and dry
The Washington Times ^ | Feb 14 2014 | Damien Schiff and Julie MacDonald

Posted on 02/14/2014 11:28:12 AM PST by WilliamIII

In this present crisis, government isn’t the solution. Government is the problem.”

With that famous phrase at his 1981 inauguration, Ronald Reagan called out the federal government for overregulation that helped drive the economy into a ditch.

For Californians today experiencing a severe drought, Reagan’s words should once again hit home. Of course, the weather is the prime culprit. Until a desperately needed storm moved in this past weekend, it had been a dry winter, — and the storm hasn’t compensated for the months without rainfall.

However, the damaging effects have been magnified by destructive regulations. Federal policies under the Endangered Species Act are making things worse, not better.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: editorial

1 posted on 02/14/2014 11:28:12 AM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

That’s for darned sure!


2 posted on 02/14/2014 11:29:21 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: WilliamIII
And the damn California communists Democrats support it. California is a cess pool of the dumbest bunch of idiots in the Country.
3 posted on 02/14/2014 11:33:14 AM PST by Logical me
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At least half of California's drought problem is government made.
Nature throws us a curve ball (drought, flood) only every once is a while, but government regulation works nonstop.

4 posted on 02/14/2014 11:34:18 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: WilliamIII

who are the two senators from CA again?

Who controls CA politics on every level again?

When you vote socialism you get socialism...


5 posted on 02/14/2014 11:36:10 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: WilliamIII

Ideologues with no reason or logic. They can’t even help themselves from the dogma.

They will quash farmers at all costs to prevent them from irrigating their crops because of the purple darted snail farter, even if it destroys the crop picking jobs they so love to provide for their future voter illegal Mexican pickers.


6 posted on 02/14/2014 11:37:23 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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“...even if it destroys the crop picking jobs they so love to provide for their future voter illegal Mexican pickers.”

Who will now, I suppose, get to collect unemployment because the government has deprived them of their livelihood.


7 posted on 02/14/2014 2:37:15 PM PST by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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