[LouAvul]

My son lives in the central valley. It’s bad. California needs to get its head out of their rear and do the right thing. Shutting down the valley’s agriculture for what, a fish? We’re not merely talking state’s rights here. We’re talking the survival of the source of 1/4 of America’s food. Idiots.

[Cowboy Bob]

If the farmers go bankrupt, what are the Liberals going to eat?

[volunbeer]

Desalinization of sea-water is the logical solution to the situation in California, but the communists, er... environmentalists, will not allow it.

If our nation truly wanted a green revolution we would proceed full speed ahead on the new generation of nuclear energy and this would make desalinization affordable. It would also create hundreds of thousands of new jobs with the cheap energy that is the lifeblood of tomorrow’s manufacturing.

Win - win for everyone but the communists.

[Grampa Dave]

Hopefully, God will help us.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3125905/posts

Rain Finally Back in the Forecast for California
AccuWeather ^ | February 22, 2014 | By Kristina Pydynowski
by Brad from Tennessee

The second half of the upcoming week will feature soaking rain and mountain snow returning to drought-stricken California.

Confidence is growing for California to receive a substantial amount of rain and mountain snow from two storm systems later next week.

The first system is scheduled to move through California Wednesday through Thursday with the second to follow for Friday through the first part of the next weekend.

The second is likely to be the stronger and wetter of the two systems, bringing a much-needed soaking to many communities (with the deserts being the exception).

If the first storm bypasses or only grazes Southern California, the second will not. It is possible that Downtown Los Angeles receives at least half of the rain that fell in all of 2013 (3.60 inches) from this one storm Friday through next week.

Several inches of rain could soak the northern California coast, while feet of snow may blanket the Sierra. Snow levels could drop low enough to whiten the mountains of Southern California. . .

[cherry]

it will be catastrophic for our farmers and the workers....to hell with this getting produce from other countries...I want American grown fruits and vegetables to choose from...

[Steely Tom]

The owners of central valley farms wouldn’t happen to mostly lean toward one political party by any chance, would they?

[NormsRevenge]

I know ..

Lets float some more water bond initiatives and see if they hold water now.

Oh wait.. Dams and reservoirs are evil, they disrupt the naaaatural environment & kill people when they burst,, like we will likely ever see another full one in our lifetimes anyway at this rate and early stage of a long term drought.. all caused by Global warming and cow farts and man.

It takes a spillage
To wreck a village
Yaknow.

[oldbrowser]

The marxists and this administration in particular like to create a problem and then ask the people for more taxes and power to solve the problem. They then centralize the power and steal the money.

A food shortage that they are creating will have people begging for help.
They have control of our finances, our health, our energy, and now our food.

Are the dots starting to connect?

[easternsky]

This comes only a week after that loser waltzed in to town, with Feinstein and boxer. How stupid do they think we are.

[Qwackertoo]

Guess they get what they voted for.

I hope fruit and produce goes sky high. Nationwide.

Let them see what the Dems are doing to them.

[Grampa Dave]

We haven't been south on 101 to the San Luis O area this year. However, last year, we noticed after several trips, there were no bans on irrigation up and down 101.

My wife asked why south of Sacramento on 99 or I5 the land looked like a desert.

My answer was, the counties down 101 are blue counties and apparently get all of the water they need and don't have worry about a red legged frog or a delta smelt, unlike the farmers/ranchers in the dry Red Counties.

cui bono? is Latin for "who benefits?" It is the single most important question to ask when evaluating any (usually political or criminal) 'maneouver'.

The: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"—"Who watches the watchmen?" In this case, the Bureau of Reclamation which controls the water in the State of California.

[Balding_Eagle]

Suddenly, true organic farming rears it’s ugly head.

[jimjohn]

Ya know, up until the 1980’s, a government entity making such a unilateral move against the population would be tantamount to an act of war. Yes, even in the good old USA.

In the 90’s, and even into the first decade, there would be massive protests, which itself could force political change.

I know this. Mr. Head knows this. We’ve seen it all before.

This is for those in the affected areas who think a nice, hand - written letter to your Congress person or whining on this forum can change course.

This move in California ‘ s Central Valley places thousands on American lives at stake. This is not a dem vs gop thing. It’s a matter of a good 20% of America’s food production. It’s a matter of survival. Those that have rights to the water in the valley should not allow under any circumstances their natural resources to be stolen.
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[TalBlack]

Where is the Californians sense of self preservation?

[bert]

Where’s the revolution?

The highways to San Fran are vital to it’s existence

[P-Marlowe]

It’s time for a Tea Party.

They are changing diapers in the Ukraine, perhaps its time to change some diapers here.

[minnesota_bound]

I bet there are democrats buying up the land cheap after cutting off the water and forcing the owners to sell.

[Carry_Okie]

California Democrats don't give a dam

Oh yes they do, they want the land for their buddies in the development business and those buying ag land abroad. They want the Central Valley out of business. They don't want America to be self-sustaining in food production. I saw this coming nearly five years ago.

George Miller is foisting the setup for his globalist buddies in the real estate business to get cheap water for the cities they're going to build. This will work just like BART did in the Bay Area. You can bet that the first farmers to feel the heat will be those with a site for a potential insta-city near a station for the "maglev" (massive subsidy #2). The goal is a Central Valley that has a large population but grows no food, a chain of Sustained Developments, each with a transportation/utility jugular that is effectively a gun to the people's heads. Oh but they'll get lots of "Nature" all around them (aka "no man's land"). It'll be paradise! (cough!) All they need is customers. No problemo.

The key fact is that water is more valuable for development than it is for agriculture. As long as that is true the crooks in the "investment" business are going to tweak things against farming. They're "investing" in farming overseas in "places more appropriate for farming (see "comparative advantage" and "free trade"). So they get the trade agreements they want, push those annoying owners off their land, so that they come running to cities, including here, looking to be the customer base for their housing. That they'll subsidize exactly the same way they are doing now using your tax dollars to feed, clothe, educate, and medicate their brainwashed children up to speed, you know, until things are "fair." They'll make better slaves because they already know the score. Americans are too deluded with relic ideas of "freedom" to be quite as useful.

You really didn't think that Democrats like Pat and Jerry were going to let the "wrong people" make money did you? They got the farmers to pony up the cash for the construction of this massive investment subsidy (the California Water Project), by teasing them into salivating at a profit in real estate. They got the farmers to pay for the infrastructure and let them hold the bag until the big boys saw the right time. They had to wait until they were finished building out the desert anyway. The recession plus the idiot voters wishing up a passenger train boondoggle presents exactly such an opportunity.

Smelt, smelt, oh no, the smelt are dying... uh, the farmers are still hanging on... Oh steelhead, salmon, oh the humanity!!! (they're more photogenic anyway.) So it goes. I'll bet whoever wrote that biological opinion will end up running a lab.

29 posted on 06/09/2009 7:27:54 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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So it goes.

The biggest developer of Sustainable Development "stack and pack" housing is Catellus Development, aka ChiFi's husband Richard Blum. The biggest stockholder in Catellus is CalPERS. The left is leveraging public pension money to build prison-cities, with the bureaucrats enforcing the means to force people out of suburbs having their pensions tied to the success of that effort, else the taxpayers have to pony up to pay for said inflated pensions.

Quite the deal.

[tubebender]

Central Valley farmers are supporters of many Republicans and this is pay back time by Obamma the Great

[TexanByBirth]

This is not good news.

My sister and her family live in Dos Palos. My brother-in-law does a lot of work in the ag business. They told me things were dry out there and it looked like business was going to slow down. This can not help!