[Doohickey]

Well...

As a native Northern Californian (Lincoln/Rocklin/Auburn), I haven't much sympathy for people who build a city in the desert and expect the rest of us to send our irrigation water south to keep their swimming pools full.

[The Blitherer]

As a native Northern Californian (Lincoln/Rocklin/Auburn), I haven't much sympathy for people who build a city in the desert and expect the rest of us to send our irrigation water south to keep their swimming pools full.

So you'd rather everybody move North TO the water instead of bringing the water here?

[rottndog]

Fair enough....I haven't much sympathy for people who build a city on a hill in Earthquake territory...let them pay their own reconstruction bills after the next major shaker...

I haven't much sympathy for people who have property around the river delta...let them pay ALL the money to rebuild the levy system....

I haven't much sympathy for...(fill in your own instance of Northern Cal leaching tax dollars from Southern Cal)...

[Kozak]

As a native Northern Californian (Lincoln/Rocklin/Auburn), I haven't much sympathy for people who build a city in the desert and expect the rest of us to send our irrigation water south to keep their swimming pools full.

Uh huh. And please put this in perspective with growing RICE in the Sacramento area. A low value crop best suited for oh, Lousiana. I remember flying into Sacramento ( a semi desret and marveling at the miles and miles and miles of flooded rice fields, while at the same time I couldn't water my lawn or wash my car.