California Delta Smelt and the San Joaquin Valley Dust Bowl.
This is simply one more example of our corrupt government ripping off its citizenry in favor of a minority special interest few.
Hopefully SOON “we the people” will again have control over those who clearly forgot they get paid by us.
Thank you to Sean Hannity and Fox News for covering this now desperate issue.
This situation like many man tries to govern is more complicated than presented by anyone on the scene today. (see comment below***)
I am a native born Californian living in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley and also a RECOVERING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST. Like most of us who left that movement it was because what originally needed a nudge back to an equilibrium marched to a full blown over the top, over the edge outrageous attack against the good of man. So yes the Environmentalists have turned WHACKO. I got out when a farmer in the southern part of the valley had his farm confiscated because he ACCIDENTALLY ran over an endangered mouse with his tractor. Enough was enough for me.
From this to this!
This has been agricultural land from the moment water was drilled down to or pumped in.
The valley is futile and produces milk, cream, grapes, rice, sugar beets, nursery products, lettuce, cattle, hay, strawberries, tomatoes, cotton, almonds and fruit varieties (to many to name).
This summer there have been 7 attempts made to congress asking the valley pumps be turned back on. EVERY SINGLE TIME Nancy Pelosi had KILLED those attempts. All of this in favor of the delta smelt (above) which may or may not go extinct.
YOU CAN BET if these were her husbands vineyards being turned into fallow grounds those pumps would have been flowing months ago.
Meanwhile as she stands before congress telling lies, stuttering and trying hard to shed a tear OF FAUX FEAR about the shouts of people who are being screwed (without a kiss) by her and her cohorts. One of the bread baskets of the world dries up.
This could solve this immediately!
What better way to control people than starve them?
This DISGRACEFUL excuse for a politician needs to be gone YESTERDAY!
***What you end up with in these situations is SOME big business not monitoring or raping the system and the activist trying to stop it. Involve the government who can not govern anything (even tying their own shoe laces) and you have a recipe for disaster.
Add a little graft and corruption on all sides and as usual WHATEVER is in the middle gets screwed over without a kiss. In this particular case it is the small farmer.
This story is rife with those circumstances … there are agreements to allow land to grow fallow while someone is paid anyway, there is selling off water rights because they thought they would not be needed, there are legal as well as illegal workers being laid off, a 3 year draught, and a Republican judge and President putting all of this into play THIS TIME.
So what is the true problem?
You can not govern good character.
Somewhere along the way ethics have been abandoned.
There will always be that big business owner (NOT ALL BY ANY MEANS) who will screw his mother for an extra buck.
We have seen it in so many of late. It starts on the level of ENRON and filters to the bottom of the chain. SO AND SO does it and did not get caught IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE for bad/corrupt/illegal behavior.
The government can not govern this … much of the time they do not even try.
The activist groups have turned either WHACKO or corrupt … PETA is one such renegade example. Perhaps the public needs to quit donating their hard earned dollars to SOMEONE else to speak and act for them.
Like with ACORN we probably should focus on disbanding these groups and start over.
At least we would have a respite to get back somewhere near center.
Enough is enough!
The time for a full blown investigation IS NOW!
Fox news apparently is the only programmer to show THIS LATEST TRAVESTY COMMITTED BY ACORN.
For those of you who still watch CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and the myriad of other hacks disguised as news agencies save your time. If you are not fast catching on these companies truly are on the verge of being bankrupt for a reason … turn up the volume listen more closely then … you better start doing some heavy research on your own and try and decide where you fall in the situation at hand.
We can no longer trust the media.
So who do we trust?
Personally I trust NO ONE … I prefer to dash about looking up information myself, reading documents and then deciding what falls where.
I literally trust NO POLITICIANS on either side of the isle. It is a shame because in truth I have thrown the baby out with the bath water. Those who remain in the respective parties are going to have to PROVE with a capitol “P” they can be trusted. I will far batter trust a no body from Podunk before I trust ANYONE already elected at this time!
Thanks to http://biggovernment.com/ for the break and video. You will find all details and transcript on this whole story.
Since NO ONE IN THE MEDIA OR GOVERNMENT seems to give a flip about honesty maybe its time “WE THE PEOPLE” start doing more of this investigation ON OUR OWN !
BRAVO to this young woman who spent her own savings to pull off this sting … BROVO to her sidekick who helped.
We have all heard about the voter fraud committed by ACORN during our last election. This group has been under investigation for some time for embezzlement and voter fraud.
So what is ACORN up to now?
Wrap your mind around the 2010 census.
How many fraudulent fake people are going to end up in the new census because someone wants an extra $6 an hour worth of work while they sit eating bon bons on the street corner somewhere instead of actually working for their money?
How would you like some unsavory ACORN character knocking on your door asking all kinds of personal information?
Remember ACORN? Congressional Democrats voted to offer billions of taxpayer dollars to ACORN and other leftwing outfits – YOUR tax dollars - in their “economic stimulus” legislation.
But that isn’t all. House Democrats voted to spend $600 million on new cars for the federal government, $50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts, and $136 billion on at least 32 government programs. They even voted to spend $335 million on STD prevention.
None of this will fix our ailing economy.
How about a simple NO for those begging for handouts.
Like any business owner if you can not make it on your own then you need to go out of business.
If ACORN can not make it on their own they too need to go out of business.
It will be interesting to see how much of this stimulus package they want to siphen off to themselves in raises or perks.
Personally I think they all need about a 25% pay cut (at least) since they are responsible for this problem.