So to hell with the people whose families have farmed the delta for 150 years - LA wants water, is that right?
No. The Delta plan is the enviro whackos idea. I am opposed to that.
“So to hell with the people whose families have farmed the delta for 150 years - LA wants water, is that right?”
That’s the usual reason. The cities rule us, always have and won’t give up that power easily.
You might appreciate this 1994 article.
Fred Charles Ikle a Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, served as under secretary of defense for policy in the Reagan administration and as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Ford administration.
OUR PERPETUAL GROWTH UTOPIA
Fred Charles Ikle (1994) [snip]
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/04/bigger-isnt-always-betterwords-from.html
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization. Ronald Reagan, Governor, State of California, Hearings before Subcommittee on Census and Population, 1974.