Posted on 05/30/2018 7:19:50 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
There's no money in either bond measure to fix California's deficient and decrepit water infrastructure or to provide new water to fix California's chronic water shortage
Droughts are naturally occurring; water shortages are government-created and political. Examples of this can be found in every water bond in recent history, put on the ballot by politicians, and passed by emotional voters.
California voters will be facing two more ballot initiatives claiming to be water bonds this year, totaling $13 billion. But the overall cost will be much higher for taxpayers. One water bond is on the June 5 ballot and a second one is on the November 6 ballot.
How about placing the value of farming and human life above that of some fish that they pretend is “endangered”???
Screw the water! Get that desperately needed Light Rail project going!!
Priorities, priorities....
Keep wasting your dollars trying to control global warming and you will drown in the flood waters you failed to prevent, divert, and control. Choose wisely.
Forget the Light Rail. Elon’s hyper tube thingy.
Every Single Water Bond measure in the last 25 years has NOT Added a Single DROP of Storage or Conveyance!!!!
But a whole lot of “Environmental Communists” got paid rather handsomely as a result.
1. The author completely dismisses the imperative to keep the Delta alive, as well as the rivers that feed it.
2. Then she twists the water usage numbers, saying only 41.x% of “developed water supply” is used by farmers. The truth is that farmers use 80% of all the water used by humans in CA.
I am a “crazy conservative”, having cast my first vote for Reagan in the 1976 California GOP primary.
But I do not want to see this beautiful land completely destroyed. And that would be the result of killing these rivers.
Some of the water must pass to the sea.
CA water bonds have always been a scam. The money is used for anything the state legislature wants to use it for.
Along with Cal. Vet. bonds, water bonds are an automatic "YES" to most people when they are voting. I voted in CA elections for 36 years and don't remember ever seeing a water bond initiative fail. Typically they pass by 70/30 or 80/20 margins.
The moral of the story is avoid investments that include CA state or municipal bonds.
Because nobody will sell them water. At least not from Washington State, which is where the water is.
Socialism in full display. There are more than enough resources to fulfill California’s needs but controlling resources is power. Add graft and corruption of the 1% rulers with a mostly idiot population and there you go.
There has been no accounting done for the water bonds passed just a few years ago.
NONE of that $$$ was spent in repairing the spillway on the Oroville Dam, and when it failed, Jerry Brown pleaded with the Feds & Trump for $$$ to fix it.
Where did the $$$ from those bonds go?
The corruption & outright theft in California is monumental.
I cannot wait for it all to come tumbling down.
bkmk
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