Posted on 05/09/2017 6:14:05 AM PDT by artichokegrower
California is asking the federal government to pay 75 percent of the hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs to the badly damaged spillways at the nation's tallest dam, a state water agency spokeswoman said Monday.
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Typical of LIB lunatics. Unfortunately, repub quislings will go along to be “friends” with the LIB idiots.
Caliwhackistan can jam it.
No money to Mexifornia until they want to be part of the USA.
Any federal funds provided should be minus the previously allocated repair funds that were diverted to other causes. Maintenance is a responsibility of ownership and passing this on to others because you chose not to do your duty is not equitable.
Hmm, what can we get, or get rid of, in California in exchange for funding your dam repairs..
Ditto.
How about California skim off 1% of the billions they are handing over to non-citizens for "free" tuition, driver's licenses, Medicaid, etc. With all that money California could rebuild all their dams and probably build their choo choo train to nowhere.
Let’s see. Maybe, if they outlaw sanctuary cities and start cooperating with immigration authorities?
Then not a cent more og my tax dollars. I want real oversight where this kind of thing happens. There’s people and livestock downsteam of this thing, though. State officials that diverted the money intended for this project should have their pensions revoked for fraud
Apply Holder’s retainer towards the repairs.
Only if California agrees to a federal audit to determine where the money went from the two billion dollar bond that somehow was not used to fix the dam.
As long as the politicians who misappropriated the funds do hard time for tax fraud then there is a slim chance the work will actually be done properly.
But as California spent 24 Billion on illegal immigrants last year, fixing dams has little to do with lack of funds and everything to do with fraud.
The Leftist government has set the following priorities above all else:
-- Continue to offer and pay extraordinary benefits and pensions to government employees and officeholders although the taxpayer funded system is far beyond broke);
-- Continue to provide full public benefits (e.g., healthcare; in-state tuition; state-sponsored protection from federal laws, and anything else you can imagine) to illegal mexicans and other non-citizens;
-- Oh, and to continue construction of Commissar Brown's wet-dream: The multi-billion dollar high-speed rail line to Manteca.
“The $7.545 billion water bond approved overwhelmingly by California voters in November 2014 is expected to provide a significant infusion of funding for water projects and programs at a pivotal time in California water. ...”
Give Jerry Brown a shovel and tell him to get after it.
“Give Jerry Brown a shovel and tell him to get after it.”
Won’t work! The Jesuits gave Jerry a shovel to use when he was studying to be a Catholic Priest (that was back before he decided that his “real life’s work would be to live off of the CA taxpayers and knock boots with Linda Ronstadt) down at their vineyard in Los Gatos, and he quit because he didn’t realize that being a priest entailed actually working.
California got closer to 20 times that amount during the Obama stimulus.
Okay, I found it on the Washington Free Beacon.
“Despite more than a decade of warnings about Oroville, there is no public record of the country’s tallest dam receiving any of the more than $34 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act sent to California for infrastructure projects.”
States were allowed to determine where these funds were needed and Oroville did not bump the sidewalk beautification for UC Davis campus to take care of water needs for its population. Global warming was going to cause a perpetual desert, why fix reservoirs?
You’re right...California got $35 Billion from the Obama stimulus and still managed to spend $0 on the Oroville Dam.
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