Posted on 02/20/2010 7:04:23 PM PST by blueyon
On the list of insane public policy moves we have come to expect from the current administration, Cap and Tax, Obamacare and Union Card Check, a fourth has garnered relatively little attention, although the implications for all Americans may be among the most far-reaching. The recurring theme is centralized control.
On Monday, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will host a rare Congressional Field Hearing. A Congressional delegation will venture out of the beltway and actually devote time to a problem in our country. Better yet, they will be listening to real citizens. Sort of.
At issue is what residents are calling a government-made drought in the Central and San Joaquin Valleys of California. Legal and environmental regulations in the Endangered Species Act has resulted in the diversion of 200 billion gallons of water from the agricultural heartland of California into the Ocean. According to California farmer Rose Corona,
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Well, see, there is newsspeak and their is webspeak.
The statement you refer to is webspeak.
They’re afraid that the eeeeeeevil farmers will kill off that little thing? Please, those little ones are probably as prolific as cockroaches, at least in their native habitat, which, as I understand it, is not central California.
Does it taste good, by any chance?
Yet afiirmative action housing and government run healthcare are rights?
Ok, got it.
Thank-you. It’s such a different set of circumstances on water out there than here is SE Ohio. I guess we just take water for granted because it is everywhere. Drill a 1000” hole and you have water nearly anywhere.
Indeed.
Some areas get you on the other side too. Some municipalities are now taxing you for run-off from your land when it rains. Think about that a moment. They are taxing you for an act of God. They also tax you on the water you get from the municipality. So, they get you coming and going. Personally, I'm becoming more and more in favor of hemp neckties.
Actually sounds like the lunatics are trying to start a second civil war.
My daddy used to eat those on crackers...
This is the nature of humans in power. And (short of hemp neckties, I think) it needs to be stopped dead in its tracks at the ballot box.
Good, conservative people need to step up and do the hard, time-consuming, thankless job of governing. That seems to be the only answer. The greedy idiots are in charge now and it's getting pretty terrible out there.
At this rate, it will not be long, before we have a rationing book with coupons for water, no coupon, no water.
And then comes the blackmarket sellers.
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