Posted on 09/27/2001 10:48:08 PM PDT by farmfriend
Legislating more funding & projects for water in CA is like trying to deliver humanitarian food & aid to Somalia or Ethiopia: the intentions are noble, but dumping money & resources into the region ignores the fact that it's a desert, naturally incapable of supporting a dense population.
I highly recommend the PBS series Cadillac Desert which shows the history of the region, how CA has been transformed from mostly inhospitable desert to world breadbasket, how delicately balanced the water system is structured, how much is subsidized, and how it's rapidly growing toward a catastrophic breakdown.
California the populous cityscape and productive farmland as we know it, is really a fluke of the last 50 years. Legislative fiat cannot indefinitely prolong flukes.
If the envirals and Club Sierra had their way, we would not any water for food, to drink, to bath in and for recreation unless you are a big donor to Club Sierra and run a rafting or canoe business! Of course no water for electricity!
They will have some type of ESA critter from the Barbara Boxer short nosed Suckers, to Coho inspite of millions of them, to the red legged frog to control the water!
If you control water in California, Oregon and Washington, you control all who live in these 3 states. Of course any farmer/rancher or someone who lives in the country is a vile person and should be disposed of in the view of the Green Nazis!
One of the positive aspects of 9/11 is that Club Sierra and many envirals have stopped their 24/7/365 attacks on President Bush to raise money. This plus the slow down in our economies on the left coast before and after 9/11 are apparently really hurting these enviral phoney charities! Lets hope that they really get hurt!
You always hear the how expensive it is crap when you bring this up, but the fact is it's done everyday in the Middle East.
If California wanted to they could do it, but they are used to the rest of the country sacrificing for them.
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Looks like most of the activity described here is in Northern California.
We have some activity down here in Southern California.
I'll post the article and flag you!
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