"A victim of a famine machine that is entirely man-made...by greens."... 12/28/10, "Fresno, Zimbabwe""...Fresno, Calif., stands as the de facto capital of California's mighty Central Valley, the breadbasket of America." But
- 24.1% of Fresno's families are going hungry.
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"The Commerce Clause that regulates interstate commerce is at issue in the legal battle of Obamacare. Can the federal government tell individuals that they must buy insurance? Not as well known is how the same commerce clause is destroying farms and raising food prices by stopping the flow of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers to the Central Valley in California. The feds at the urging of the state government has
- literally turned off the tap, destroying prime farmland in order to benefit the sex lives of the Delta Smelt.
The smelt is fish that is native to California and, for the most part, is known to fisherman simply as “bait”. The California enviros’ zeal to increase the population of smelt has led to a terrible federal, legal decision that shut down the water to thousands of farmers in the Central Valley; the nation’s largest and most productive farm land. Thousands of farmers there are suffering with
- unemployment over 20%,
scores of farms have been lost and tens of thousands of agricultural workers are now without jobs. If California didn’t have enough economic problems, you can add shooting yourself in the foot. The inmates are now officially running the asylum. If we needed a poster for enviro-insanity it would be the promotion of the lowly smelt over the interests of:
- farmers, food production, food prices, jobs and California families.
Fortunately, the GOP is now leading the charge is to cut funding for the programs that help the smelt at the expense of the farmers. This could lead to turning on the tap to the farmers. But California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is fighting the farmers; leading the opposition in the Senate and choosing to stand by the smelt over people. The Pacific Legal Foundation, (PLF) a non-profit public interest group has sided with the farmers was recently successful in obtaining a new federal district court decision to force the state
- to re-examine its justification for turning off the spigot.
On Tuesday, the PLF made their case in front of the Ninth “Circus” Court of Appeals hoping for permanent relief. They argued that the Commerce Clause doesn’t allow the feds to regulate intra-state species (species that don’t cross state lines) with no commercial sales. Let’s just hope the people prevail over the bait, however, with the insane Ninth Circus Court no outcome is certain."
"Congress created Dust Bowl" photo Big Government
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Reference: 10/9/09, "Environmental lawsuits rake in billions for lawyers," by Jake Putnam
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Reference: 9/22/09, "Senate rejects measure to turn California water on," Washington Times, Amanda Carpenter
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12/30/10, "California’s Central Valley: Zimbabwe West?," Hot Air, Ed Morrissey
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- Reference: 11/19/2009, "Congressional Water Report- KMPH Fox 26 Central San Joaquin Valley News Source, by Rich Rodriguez
- Reference: 9/22/09, "Senate rejects measure to turn California water on," Washington Times, Amanda Carter
- 12/15/10, "Judge says Delta pumping rules, meant to protect fish, are too restrictive," Contra Costa Times by Mike Taugher
12/14/10, "Doug Obegi a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council who worked on the case...
predicted changes ordered by Wanger would not allow state and federal water projects to return to the record-breaking pumping levels they reached from 2000 to 2007.
- It is possible, Obegi said, that the rewrite might even result in
- tighter restrictions."..
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