Posted on 09/07/2012 9:12:24 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Barack Obama is keeping his promise to lower the sea levels, and he’s starting with the drought plagued Midwest where Lake Michigan water is being shipped by the boat loads over to China!
By using a little known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan to the tune of an estimated $500,000 million to $1.8 million per day profit.
By draining the precious jewel of the Great Lakes in the middle of America, our federal water managers are allowing the export of our water out of our country across thousands of miles of oceans into the Asian basin plagued by huge population centers who are suffering from their constant lack of fresh water. How’s that for cutting America down to size?
The water is being sold at a “240 times markup,” that is, well over 240 times its production costs. (2) In 2006, then President George W. Bush signed into law a...
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Sound more like environMENTAL crap, rather than holding all the water for the Chinese. As an aside, how can some environMENTAList think y’all’s puny wells can suck all the water out of Lake Michigan?
So back to my question: what other resources rights should the government confiscate from private owners? How about those nasty lime stone quarries at Rogers City? The copper up in the Keweenaw? The iron in Ipsheming? The oil and gas in Isabella County? The fish that the Chippewa pull out of Lake Huron at St. Ignace?
They are not drawing water from their property. They are drawing water from presumably federal jurisdiction.
What water rights are associated from the property they own on the lake front? Do they have federal water rights or federal use permits? If they are withdrawing water where multiple water use permits are granted, if their withdrawal affects others with water use permits then they must provide remedy to the others or stop.
Remember, a corporation is not a person.
Unfortunately the environmentalists do get involved and further cloud a real issue (Which isn’t China buying huge amounts of water)
That doesn’t mean that Obama and friends aren’t doing all they can to screw us bitter clingers.
The point is that the Great Lakes has 6.9 QUADRILLION Gallons of Water. It’s not possible to measurably change their water level by selling bottled water taken from them and transported in boxes by containership.
Buying bottled water is imbecilic for anyone, of course, so to me it’s a huge win to rip off foreign countries buying bottled water at a huge markup.
The posted article is so impossibly idiotic it’s tough to cover all of them, but another is yet another effort to blame Obama for something that 1) Can’t possibly have ever reached his level for decision and 2) started during the Bush administration, anyway.
If the federal government owns the right to confiscate the mineral rights on property owned by Nestle, it holds the right to confiscate the property of each of us.
“They most assuredly are America’s land...”
Your problem, as I see it, is that that the means of production is privately owned. All of that food is owned by someone and the owner’s are free to do with the fruits of their labor and capital as they see fit. How do you propose to keep all this food in America? Are you going to limit property rights?
“Many are the ones that would sell it all for money.”
So you propose to give the food away? I guess you also know the correct price for selling food and just how much is needed and by whom.
Your system goes by the name of Communism.
I think I have more water in my stock tank than is at issue here.
Nestle better be careful. Selling to the Chinese will come back to bite them- soon the market will literally be flooded with cheap knock-offs...
You of course, don’t know if the corporation owns mineral or water rights to the property.
You of course do know that if someone is taking water from a state or federal body of water, that is different than drilling a well on a property with water rights in the deed.
A corporation is not ‘some one’. A corporation is not a person.
A corporation is a collective. The problem we are discussion is in fact global communism, as the globalists only recognize corporations as their constituents instead of individuals who in the past were the sovereigns with respect to our government.
Please get over the false claim that ‘someone’s’ rights are being violated. Corporations are not persons! They are business collectives that exist because the sovereign citizens grant them their existence.
Great points.
Too bad these globalists can put a logical thought together to understand what is happening in the country.
Apparently they are pulling water out of the aquifer that is affecting the lives and properties of downstream landowners whose property used to have streams running through them and/or wells.
People here are arguing that global corporations have more ‘rights’ than citizens with long standing use of state waters downstream from their operations.
Those chinese funded environmentalists again?
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