Despite recent sporadic rain,
California is still in the worst extended drought in its brief recorded
history. If more storms do not arrive, the old saying that California could
withstand two droughts — but never three — will be tested for the first time in
memory……The vast 4-million-acre farming belt along the west side of the Central
Valley is slowly drying up. ……And never has farming been so central to a state
suffering from the aftershocks of a housing collapse, chronic high
unemployment, overregulation, and the nation’s highest sales, income, and gas
taxes.
Yet there are really two droughts…..Apparently, Pacific-corridor
residents from San Diego to Berkeley had acquired the affluence not to worry so
much about the….. brilliantly designed system of canals, reservoirs, and dams
that had turned their state from a natural desert into a man-made paradise……Green
utopians went further and demanded that an ailing three-inch bait fish in the
San Francisco delta receive more fresh oxygenated water. In the last five
years, they have successfully gone to court to force millions of acre-feet of
contracted irrigation water to be diverted from farms to flow freely out to sea….Instead
of an adult state with millions of acre-feet stored in new reservoirs,
California is still an adolescent culture that believes that it has the right
to live as if this were the age of the romantic 19th-century naturalist John
Muir — amid a teeming 40-million-person 21st-century megalopolis…..To Read More……
My Take - I have often said the beginning of wisdom
is the price of gasoline. Well, that line of logic can easily be extended to
other aspects of insane greenie policies. At some point the lack of water will
be the beginning of wisdom in California, that and the lack of funding due to
the lack of industry, which is fleeing the state hand over fist. What I find
almost mesmerizing about all of this is how can anyone in public office be incapable
of seeing what the consequences of all of this will be? Cities are going
bankrupt – this started in California –agriculture is dying, public employees
demand and get contracts that cannot be in any way honored because the money
will not be there and the leftists in California think they’re at the higher
end of the typical leftie, "we’re better than you’ scale",…AKA…. Self
Righteous Scale. What do they think is going to bail them out this leftist
mess? There is no logical foundation for believing a continuation down the path
that got them into this mess can in any way fix it! For them to do so requires
them to be insane. That's the only logical explanation.
Oh, one more thing. It occurs to
me that bankruptcy is also the beginning of wisdom. It's also the end of the
beginning of wisdom. It's called hindsight. That's when everyone looks back and
realizes - too late - everything they did was stupid, and everything that
happened was avoidable. It's frightening to think that so many insanely stupid
people are in charge, in so many areas, including industry and business. The
penalty for all this stupidity is on the horizon. Dystopia, the one thing at
which the left excels since the French Revolution!
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