Posted on 07/25/2009 10:45:29 PM PDT by Entrepreneur
San Joaquin Valley farms are laying off workers and letting fields lie fallow as their water ration falls.
Reporting from Mendota, Calif. -- Water built the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley into an agricultural powerhouse. Drought and irrigation battles now threaten to turn huge swaths of it into a dust bowl.
Farmers have idled half a million acres of once-productive ground and are laying off legions of farmhands. That's sending joblessness soaring in a region already plagued by chronic poverty.
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This year has been even drier after a federal court ordered that pumps moving water through the system be turned down to protect endangered species including delta smelt, salmon and green sturgeon. The pumps can reverse the water flow and trap salmon in the river, pulverize fish or ensnare them on screens, said Maria Rea, supervisor of the Sacramento office of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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As many ways as those self-appointed lords in the US Congress are still in office.
1. Rep. Nazi Pelosi
2. Rep. George Miller
Can you say desalination?
Then if an elected Senator or Congressperson that you are blaming should ever drum up the courage to exercise proper oversight on the people's behalf on said bureaucrats, the MSM/DBM donkeys start braying like the jackasses they are until this whole thing gets court-ordered to make sure the fish, not the people, come first!!!
To make matters even worse... this same bunch have gotten the laws to slanted that litigators get their legal fees reimbursed, win... Lose... or draw (settle out of court) It's all pure insanity and nothing but affirmative action for fish and plants and welfare for wildlife at the expense of our economy and Ameica's taxpayers!!!
People can know that the misery they are suffering is helping save a small fish they have probably never seen, thanks to an Omnipotent Liberal Member of the Judiciary supported by the Political Party they put in power.
Ah, the law of unintended consequences.
Americans must realized that the liberal politicians are not necessarily inept. Obama’s not some mindless idiot that is making foolish decisions, appointing unqualified individuals to high positions, and naively sabotaging foreign relations, all for the sake of wielding power.
We must examine the motives behind such decisions. Namely, the ideology which drives liberals. Specifically — Marxism.
As Skousen states:
“To achieve his goal, Marx required two things. First, the total annihilation of all opposition, the downfall of all existing governments, all economies and all societies. “Then,” he wrote, “I shall stride through the wreckage a creator!” The second thing he needed was a new kind of human being.”
- The Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen
This Marxist ideology has been incorporated into our public institutions of education in order to help create that “new kind of human being”.
Examine this official documents:
Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
The liberals agenda is not just to create a sense of defeat and despair, but to destroy our way of life. It is not only intentional, but it is also diabolical.
It’s not about stupid people in office, and self-destruction per se. It’s about individuals with an agenda which seeks to bring us to total ruin.
Very sad.
Ya but at least those fish are safe.
Thanks, all gov bureaucrats, living high in DC, while the CA farmers die ..
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And let’s not forget what those wonderful self-awarded legal fees are ...
$100++ an hour, padded by the liars about 300% or more ???
I know- I saw them do it.
They pulled this same trick on the Klamath Falls farmers in 2001. Fisheries officials closed the headgate of “A” Canal that feeds the Klamath Basin to protect the endangered sucker fish. This was done in June, after the farmers had already put seed in the ground. This episode began the Klamath Water War (for more info Google Klamath Water War). Farmers gathered around the closed headgate and with a torch, cut through the locks; opening the waterway.
It is time that people rise up in defiance of these commie fools and their pie in the sky rules and regulations. They exist for no good reason but to drive hard working people into poverty. Of course these inviroweenies get that grant money rolling in for making ‘lookie me, I so good.’
They have only the Democrat King of Hearts Party to thank for the lunatic miseries they are suffering under.
Kill the Babies!
Save the animals, trees, mice, frogs! Kill the people!
Kill all the Gammas and Gandpaas! They are too old!
Save the mass killers! betray the Military!
Make law abiders unarmed easier to kill!
Aid the invaders! Jail the border guards!
This is So Cal. Despair is everywhere. At least they are in the San J Valley. In L.A., everyone is miserable.
Does this mean the environazis are putting the illegal migrants out of work? I wonder who would win in a battle between the militant “immigrant rights” groups and watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) commies?
Why do the Federal Judges hurt the people in this way. I can not begin to imagine 39 percent unemployment. Just like the wood at Home Depot. It is all cut in foreign countries while our logging companies close. Judges are closing those. The Federal Judges do not care for the people or their families or jobs.
As the Sierra Club stated years ago:
Our ultimate goal is the elimination of all humans west of the Rockies!
A Judge, one rouge judge has crippled California’s agriculture and we can’t do anything about it. They won’t even give his name.
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