A Tale of Four Droughts: Each is a Metaphor of What California Has Become

Pajamas Media ^ | 03/16/2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

[SeekAndFind]

California is not suffering one drought, but four. Each is a metaphor of what California has become.

The first California drought, of course, is natural. We are now in the midst of a fourth year of record low levels of snow and rain.

[Pajamajan]

5th drought in Californian -Common Sense.

[immadashell]

The State and virtually all of its agencies are bankrupt. Those “Other People’s Money” folks have had enough of liberal redistribution and are either packing up and leaving with whatever they may still have or are taking mind bending doses of joy juice to convince themselves they still live in Paradise. In either case, the State is gradually devolving back to its natural origin, just another Mexican territory. There is no more gold left in California. Maybe we can sell it back to Mexican warlords before they steal it.

[ltc8k6]

Do you need high speed rail, or water?

[lormand]

Humans - the only species created that loath's itself.

The root cause of this is liberalism.

[ßuddaßudd]

Im sure some of the immigrants will solve our water issues... /sarc

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Droughts during the ice age?

I understand that Antarctica is one of the driest places on earth.

[Kit cat]

Yes a FRICKING TRAIN instead of desalinization we are living with governor moonbeam remember, if you lived her and actually realized where this train is being built NO ONE will use it!!!!!! UTTER STUPIDITY
paying back big donors at our expense JUST DISCUSTING!!!!!!!!

[cripplecreek]

I wouldn’t love federal funding for desalination plants but it would be a hell of a lot easier to swallow than paying for trains.

[cripplecreek]

I understand that Antarctica is one of the driest places on earth.

It is in the sense that there is little precipitation. The water is tied up in ice.

[Disambiguator]

Besides, what kind of a moron would pump water 1800 miles to dump it on the ground next to an ocean.

I take it that is a rhetorical question, because the answer is "a liberal."

[American in Israel]

Yeah, the illegal half.

[publius911]

Releasing water to the ocean in times of drought was not the intention of either the California State Water Project or the Central Valley Project; again, it may be a better idea than what the old engineers had planned on, but it is predicated on the idea that those living in Mendota or working in Coalinga are an unfortunately unnatural species, at least in comparison to river salmon and bait fish.

For most of history, homo sapiens, being as much a part of nature as sardines, and driven by the same need to survive, consider progress primarily as the duty to ensure the survival of future HUMAN generations.

Fast forward to the latter part of the 20th Century and California found itself decaying into a society which was a shadow of its former self. As its population decayed into hedonism, substance abuse and perversions, the average IQ of their "elected" officials plummeted, and thoughtful future planning disappeared.

The foresight of their great great grandparents also disappeared, and they set about dismantling the infrastructure carefully built over a hundred years to transform a semidesert into the agricultural wonder of the world. DECADES LATER, THE SAME "STONED" PEOPLE, TO ADD STUPIDITY TO ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE, decided to tax themselves hundreds of billions$ to AGAIN build the destroyed dams for the benefit of swamps,sardines, snails, snakes, bugs and bunnies!

Meanwhile, the Central Valleys of California continue turning into dustbowls and tumbleweed.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks for that reference.

[robert14]

Using Isreal as a baseline for desalination costs, we could solve California’s entire water problem for $120 billion. $120 billion is also what the bullet train to nowhere is projected to cost.

[bgill]

Deport all the illegals and CA US citizens will have all the water they need.

[DownInFlames]

If half the population bugs out, so does their 52 electoral votes. This is going to be a disaster.

[uscga77]

We will help save water by getting the heck out of here and moving to Texas. Counting the days!

[SZonian]

Hate to say it, but even Texas isn’t immune from drought...in fact...

http://www.tceq.texas.gov/response/drought

http://waterdatafortexas.org/drought/

http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/drought/

[Carthego delenda est]

“DECADES LATER, THE SAME “STONED” PEOPLE, TO ADD STUPIDITY TO ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE, decided to tax themselves hundreds of billions$ to AGAIN build the destroyed dams for the benefit of swamps,sardines, snails, snakes, bugs and bunnies!”

Very well put! Add to that, the infrastructure built for their future generations is also being given to an invading nation, enticed to come here because they can clearly see that the current inhabitants are so stoned and insane that they willingly give away the fruits of their labor AND their children’s inheritance. Yes, these are the same people who would rather starve by letting an agricultural paradise die and willfully dismantle an engineering masterpiece, for the equivalent of a few pallets of canned sardines.

[Regulator]

Yup.

120 billion will be about double whats needed, but maybe we can send some water to Phoenix.