that’s some quality Onionesque writing Coloradan. Well done. You had me good for a few sentences.
It practically writes itself.
My greatest wish is that the federal government doesn’t bail CA out, i.e. put taxpayers of other states on the hook in response to idiocy entirely within CA’s borders. This drought has been 50 if not 100 years in coming, and demographic trends (including water usage, and including agricultural water usage) is no more secret than are rainfall averages and the fact the area is a desert. All these things together bring the key, central issues to the forefront of the legislature: gay rights, assault weapons bans, and healthcare for illegal immigrants. Oh, and the multi-billion-dollar light rail project. Why store up grains for seven years, to borrow the Biblical analogy, when you could micromanage the population to advance your ideology, instead? Coupled with a hefty dose of featherbedding, not to mention federal pork.