Posted on 09/19/2009 5:38:03 AM PDT by Patriot1259
“Turning the water off is not just bad politics, it’s an act of domestic terror.” - Former Fresno, California Mayor Alan Autry
Forgive me if I am less than diplomatic here. I am not a fan at all of the radical environmental movement. I’m even less of a fan of radical, Big Government.
Let’s cut to the chase here. The rabid environmentalists have destroyed the economy in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Not only have they destroyed the economy, they have destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of farmers, as well.
According to the California Farm Water Coalition unemployment in parts of the San Joaquin Valley reached 41 percent in August. Over 400,000 acres of some of the richest farm land on earth are now dormant and unplanted. More than one million acres are in danger of destruction. .
These government stooges have created a modern day dust bowl. They have created something the government actually worked hard to educate people against doing again some 75 years ago!
(Excerpt) Read more at thecypresstimes.com ...
I watched the Hannity Show. I don’t get this.
If the water is in CA and needs to be shipped to these farmers, why doesn’t CA just ship the water and give O the finger?
“...it’s about over-turning the Constitution.”
It pretty much ALWAYS comes back to that, doesn’t it?
Was that part of CA originally desert, to? Has water always needed to be piped in? Or does it have natural aquifiers? Just askin’ ‘cuz I don’t know.
The economic devastation on the westside of the valley goes way beyond farmers and farm workers. Everyone who lives or works or does business in those small farm communities depends on farm income for economic survival.
Obama does not give a hoot about some minnow. He is up to destroying the free market.
This is the Wiki on the fish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_smelt
This is the pumping plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks_Pumping_Plant
This is the pumping plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento-San_Joaquin_River_Delta
All of it is in CA.
Why doesn’t Arnold just put in an order to turn on the pumps? Then let the Fed sue him?
It’s a matter of states rights, isn’t it
Sorry, make that last one, Wiki for the Delta.
I saw that and I still didn’t get it.
The Pumping plant and Delta are in CA.
Arnold is supposed to be an R.
Turn on the water by State National Guard and let the Fed draw the line in the sand regarding States rights. I never saw Hannity say that at all.
How about a huge huge caravan of trucks transporting water to these farmers.
So, do they want to save the fish or save all that polluting gas from the trucks.
It would be a great media story.
Boy California’s balls are in a vice and being crushed every which way.....forcast for the rest of America and coming soon!
Free people would march up and turn the water on.
My question is if the pumps have been turned off and the water that would have gone to the farmers is now being pump into the ocean, like the video reported, what prevents the 2” fish from not being pumped into the ocean and lost are destroyed by way of being eaten from ocean dwellings, etc. I mean both ways would be a negative to the 2” fish, right?
Didn’t the irrigation pumps in Zimbabwe get turned off also? Turned the breadbasket into a sandbox.
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Congress has to held accountable! Obama and the Left have to be held accountable! All of them are cut from the same cloth.
Like a Berlin Airlift effort? That idea has a chance to increase momentum for our efforts against tyranny in this nation. Great idea!
Why don’t farmers and resident blow the GD dams open and when the “Govt Pukes” show up drill ‘em w/ a 30-06 round to the head!
It isn’t O, it’s Congress. And at some point I wonder if Ca will just start doing it. Of course then they get penalties, etc...
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