She was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate from California in 2010.
Hear! Hear!
Finally someone speaking out against radical environmentalism.
Pray America is waking
Environmentalists who worry about a species of fish going extinct are the ultimate science deniers.
99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. That’s a scientific FACT.
To get upset over a single species of fish is to live in a mind-set where the demise of unicorns is a source of daily pain and sadness.
Fiorina is a feisty lady and that’s a compliment. I hope she gets in the presidential race if just to shake things up and go after the Rats on the war against women issue. Also, she can highlight the failure of liberal policies in her home state.
I just wish she had not virtually destroyed HP.
OTOH, let’s have her run the IRS into the ground...
Liberals deliberately created this problem so they could “solve” it by taking ever more control over other people’s lives.
This is what they do with EVERY issue and EVERY situation. They’re arsonists who insist on being honored as firefighters.
Truly a liberal exacerbated problem.
Of Course this is an Engineered water shortage, - how else could the Dems take more and more control of your life?
Everybody knows this, or should know this rather than trust Moonbeam.
Fines and Taxes..........while Freedom goes down the drain!
Enjoy!
As a resident of California, I’m so happy the non native silverfish is thriving in our state. Kinda like illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, my native children are having their water rationed. It’s so wonderful.
MAN-made? Why only blame men? Oh I forgot this must be part of the alleged “war on women.”
I couldn’t resist....
These problems need to get worse (and they will quickly), so that people can get a taste for what 100 yrs of progressive policies have wrought for the USA. Obola’s policies have accelerated the decline and hopefully have turned up the temperature on the frog to where he might jump out of the pot. We are near the upward end of the swing on the progressive pendulum.
Carley F cribbed all this from Victor Davis Hansen. Good for her>>>>
A Tale of Four Droughts | Works and Days
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/four-droughts/?singlepage=true
Hubris
If one studies the literature on the history and agendas of the California State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project, two observations are clear. One, our ancestors brilliantly understood that Californians always would wish to work and live in the center and south of the state. They accepted that where 75% of the population wished to live, only 25% of the state’s precipitation fell. Two, therefore they designed huge transfer projects from Northern California that was wet and sparsely settled, southward to where the state was dry and populated. They assumed that northerners wanted less water and relief from flooding, and southerners more water and security from drought, and thus their duty was to accommodate both.
Nor were these plans ossified. Indeed, they were envisioned as expanding to meet inevitable population increases. The Temperance Flat, Los Banos Grandes, and Sites reservoirs were planned in wet years as safety deposits, once higher reservoirs emptied. As population grew larger, dams could be raised at Shasta and Oroville. Or huge third-phase reservoirs like the vast Ah Pah project on the Klamath River might ensure the state invulnerability from even 5-6 year droughts.
One can say what one wishes about the long ago cancelled huge Ah Pah project — what would have been the largest manmade reservoir project in California history — but its additional 15 million acre feet of water would be welcomed today. Perhaps such a vast project was mad. Perhaps it was insensitive to local environmental and cultural needs. Perhaps the costs were prohibitive — a fraction of what will be spent on the proposed high-speed rail project. Perhaps big farming would not pay enough of the construction costs. But one cannot say that its 15 million acre feet of water storage would not have been life-giving in a year like this.
In any case, Ah Pah was no more environmentally unsound than is the Hetch Hetchy Project, without which there would be no Silicon Valley today as we now know it. One cannot say that hundreds of millions of public dollars have not gone to environmentalists, in and outside of government and academia, to subsidize their visions of the future that did not include food production and power generation for others. They are no less subsidized than the corporate farmers they detest.
One of the ironies of the current drought is that urbanites who cancelled these projects never made plans either to find more water or to curb population. Take the most progressive environmentalist in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and the likelihood is that his garden and bath water are the results of an engineering project of the sort he now opposes.
Fantasies
The state and federal water projects were envisioned as many things — flood control, hydroelectric generation, irrigation, and recreation. One agenda was not fish restoration. Perhaps it should have been. But our forefathers never envisioned building dams and reservoirs to store water to ensure year-round fish runs in our rivers — a mechanism to improve on the boom-and-bust cycle of nature, in which 19th century massive spring flooding was naturally followed by August and September low, muddy, or dry valley rivers.
Engineering alone could ensure an unnatural river, where flows could be adjusted all year long, almost every year, by calibrated releases from artificial lakes, ensuring about any sort of river salmon or delta bait fish population one desired. One may prefer catching a salmon near Fresno to having a $70 billion agricultural industry, but these days one cannot have both. Releasing water to the ocean in times of drought was not the intention of either the California State Water Project or the Central Valley Project; again, it may be a better idea than what the old engineers had planned on, but it is predicated on the idea that those living in Mendota or working in Coalinga are an unfortunately unnatural species, at least in comparison to river salmon and bait fish.
Population
Even with drought, cancellations of dams, and diversions of contracted water to the ocean, California might well not have been imperiled by the present drought — had its population stayed at about 20 million when most of the water projects were cancelled in the mid-1970s. Unfortunately the state is now 40 million — and growing. Illegal immigration — half of all undocumented aliens live in California — has added millions to the state population. And agriculture is a key route for Mexican immigrants to reach the middle class. Either the state should insist on closing the borders and encourage emigration out of state to no-tax states (which is already happening at about the rate of 1000 to 2000....
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Read more: http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/four-droughts/#ixzz3WuowPJrg
Great essay. I think she has true grit. And I don’t buy all the bs about how she “destroyed HP”.
Every one with a brain the size of a mustard seed, could see this coming 25 years ago. But, because of these “GLOBAL WARMING” idiots and the liberal, socialist and communist cabal, has stopped every attempt to come to grips with this problem. So, instead of taking care of this problem, these California politicians decided to spend the people’s money on speed trains to no where, to create union jobs, the third leg of this triumverate. So, all you voters of California had better suck it up, because you voted for these people, in spite of the warning you were getting.
And she had substantial support from both Dems and Independents in that race. No small feat for a pro life Conservative.
She needs to air her message or billboard it so the idiots here California can get it through thier thick skulls. Instead we hear Governer Moonbeam on radio and TV telling people that drought is caused by man made climate change!
Loser.
California uses 38 billion gallons of water per day. So channeling the equivilent of one week's use of water into San Francisco Bay is what caused this drought? Really?
IIRC 80% of the water from the Cali Aqueduct system is used by Farmers WHO are mostly farming in Cali's Central Valley. Now IIRC that central valley was a desert before the Aqueduct system was built.
So there was a shortage of water in Cali BEFORE men dug a big ditch to get water there.
You can fight with nature but God wins in the end. He can outlast anything man does.
Cali is hitting a natural limit, more demand for water to meet the ever growing demand for more food production. Growing food in a desert means you got to move a whole crap load of water there. Eventually you are going to hit a limit.
Either you get an additional source of water OR you got to put the brakes on. Waiting till you reach the fail point is just stupid.