http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:902285535f9dd25dc496ed95bdba667b:62cb358867fd9dd6be57ec32e8223101/Mr-ObamaTurn-On-This-WaterNOW?usc=1
What the heck is wrong with these people?
Welcome to Amerika where you have to beg our leader for water , medical care or fincancial aid and home loans. A sign of things to come for all of us...
What exactly would happen if they, the Central Valley farmers, turned out en masse and forced open the water valves themselves? Is it possible? Is it not time to take their very survival into their own hands?
He could really force a 10th Amendment crisis by using all available CA law enforcement and even National Guard (until they were nationalized) to turn the water back on--by force if necessary...
Today I was at a birthday party for a 10 year old. A had a lot of fun telling them how the Democrats are destroying this country. I did not get ANY push back. This must be our plan. We must turn the non political minions into voting Republicans. People vote for Democrats because they watch and read MSM and don't know any better. I give homework assignments to people I seem to make inroads with to watch FoxNews and research for themselves what the Democrats are doing. I then have them report back to me.
Sorry, but I’m not on the farmer’s side, they are getting water subsidies off the tax-payers. Let *them* cover the full cost of irrigation, not the tax-payer. This isn’t an environmental issue, it’s an economic issue. If this farming would be so good for the economy then private investors would be funding it, including the irrigation.
There is a rule on FR that we do not advocate or encourage violence or other illegal acts.
That is the rule and this is Jim Thompson’s house to rule as he sees fit.
Therfor I won’t suggest that the people who are being denied water take up arms and take over the facilities that are blocking their water and forcibly turn it back on.
I won’t suggest that at all. Even if it is the right thing to do I won’t suggest it.
Had enough yet?
This is simply stealing property and wages. The government has no right to do this. The Constitution protects property rights and says that the government can only take property in limited situations and that it must justly compensate the property owner.
I wish the governor would have the water turned on and that he would place the national guard on the site to keep anyone from turning the water off. What would the judges do them? Andrew Jackson defied the Supreme Court. We need leaders like him right now. What makes the Supreme Court supreme? Does the word supreme mean that they are above the President, legislators, governors and the voters? They are not supreme over everyone, they are only supreme over other courts. They do not have any special rights above everyone else. That would make them dictators.
We don’t beg or plead for our rights - we DEMAND them!
But, but what about all the corn that was supposed to fill our gas tanks!
Guys, this is going to affect the entire nation next year, especially with this ethynol crazy administration. Food shortages are coming.
Hannity had the rally at Fresno last week. He interviewed a SF environmentalist who said the water was turned off to protect the salmon runs because all the wild salmon are dying. There is a good deal of evidence that the salmon are dying because of proximity to farmed salmon from which they contract a parasite.
Much of the water is polluted because of raw sewage from cities without sewage treatment plants.
The water situation is very complex and has been dominated by politics for 100 years.
It will take a good bit of research (honest research) and thought to resolve all the deals that have been made and introduce an truly free market to California’s water problems. It was absolutely unconscionable to turn off the water for the Delta Smelt.
Of course it is obvious that when the small farmers and landholders have been driven out the land will be bought up by corporations and farms turned into factories.