Petition: Pelosi’s Drought, Breadbasket Goes Hungry

Townhall.com ^ | August 19, 2009 | Steve Poizner

[mdmathis6]

It’s already August...even if you get the water released tomorrow...the damage for the year is done. It’s going to be a very expensive year for vegetables here in the US.

[babble-on]

I’ve always wondered frankly why so much of our nation’s food is grown in a place where it doesn’t rain.

Get Farmers off the GOVERNMENT TIT NOW!!

NO MORE CORPORATE WELFARE FOR AGRICULTURE!!

FREE WATER ISN’T FREE!!

[AmericaUnite]

This is so needless and sad. Sounds like something Robert Mugabe would do.

[Lazamataz]

There is more than a passing chance that this is an engineered drought. It is easier to kill millions by hunger, than it is by bullet.

Stalin starved the Ukraine. There is precedent.

[GeronL]

Online petition? Does anyone think an online petition is going to do anything? Did the Oregonians wait an wait and circulate a petition? No, they went down there and they turned the water back on.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I’ve always wondered frankly why so much of our nation’s food is grown in a place where it doesn’t rain.

Because California has so many electoral votes the rest of us subsidize their water, power and who knows what else.

Fortunately the left-wing will destroy all that wealth and drive California's population down to the point where they don't matter any more.

[Guenevere]

How about a contrived or engineered virus...like Swine Flu?

Or am I a conspiracy theorist?

[RKV]

You are lacking in clues. The water is already within the boundaries of the state, in the Sierra Mountains. As to the subsidies for dams and the like, the citizens of the State of California paid for those (not the American people at large), before the envirowackos shut down our ability to build new dams.

[Lazamataz]

Or am I a conspiracy theorist?

Think of the worst conspiracy you could imagine.

It's a zillion times worse than that.

We're all gonna die!!!!

[Guenevere]

I knew it

[Inwoodian]

Has this banshee done anything, one single thing , right since she became speaker?

[stephenjohnbanker]

“One scholar predicts that up to 30,000 jobs will be lost in the Central Valley, all because Speaker Pelosi and many of her colleagues in Congress have decided to turn their backs on California’s farmers, families, and small businesses. “

Pure evil.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The water is there, it has just been cut off.

[SZonian]

From what I’ve heard, this “fish” they’re worried about isn’t even indigenous to the US, it’s foreign.

That being said, driving to Boy Scout summer camp this summer thru the Central Valley, we saw lots and lots of brown and fallow fields. Very little action in the once active fields.

Sad.

SZ

[calex59]

Nobody subsidizes CAs water. What a tool. CA has all the water they need, the problem is the EPA diverting water to the "Delta Smelt", a non indigenous species brought into CA in the 1940s. Rather than see the water, water paid for by the farmers BTW, go to the farmers it is being sent down the rivers to the delta and into the ocean so these wonderful entirely unnecessary smelt will continue to exist in CA waters. We get our water from the mountains, we are not really in a drought except one manufactured by the politicians and we would have even more water if the EPA and other enviro weenies hadn't stopped us from building more dams, dams CA residents paid for BTW. As it is, there is plenty of water for the farms but the politicians won't divert it to the farms that are supposed to get it.

You are correct on the electricity however, but that doesn't excuse you from running your mouth about something which you know nothing about.

[sportutegrl]

Are these the people I saw on Hannity with the dead almond trees? These were 8 year old almond trees that are dead now due to lack of water. Nut trees take several years to reach the point where they produce nuts. This is an incredible waste, IMO. It will take years to replace these trees.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The DU server crashed again? Must be why you guys are here.

Now I know you don't like facts, but this is old news. Here's one example in easy to read English. If you had a computer with access to the internet, you could search and see this isn't all that unusual.

Now don't go crying and starting the name calling again, I'm sure DU will be up again later this week.

[jimt]

CA has all the water they need, the problem is the EPA diverting water to the "Delta Smelt", a non indigenous species brought into CA in the 1940s.

And as I understand it, smelt exist in many other places and the only "endangered feces" part of this is that these smelt are very slightly different than others through adaptation.

I wish enviro-whackos were an endangered species. Of course if they keep shafting the farmers they may be.

[crazyotto]

Let califorina fall into the ocean and forget about it. We would not even miss it. All it does is burn every year.