As California drought crisis worsens, Democrats choose fish over people

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[URL="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/28/California-Drought-Here-Come-the-Water-Wars]Breitbart: Here come the water wars[/URL]​

he political stakes are rising dramatically in the race to save California's economy from a crushing drought that is among the worst in the past century. The U.S. Senate rejected an effort by three California Republicans--Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and Reps. David Valadao and Devin Nunes--to insert a provision in the new farm bill that would divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the Central Valley.

Farmers in the Central Valley have not received their full allocation of water since 2006, despite several years of good rainfall since them, largely owing to environmentalist fears about the fate of the endangered delta smelt, which swims into water pumps. The federal government issued rules to protect the delta smelt in 2008, owing to fears that the loss of the smelt could have a wider impact on the ecosystem of the delta as a whole.

California's Democrats have tended to side with the environmental groups favoring restriction of irrigation. The cost comes in terms of fields left fallow, agricultural jobs lost, and rural communities devastated. Republicans, conversely, have tended to side with the farmers. Though McCarthy, Valadao and Nunes failed in their effort this week, they are considering alternative legislation that would prioritize human use of water resources.

Now, farmers are worried that the federal government could seize and divert water saved in the San Joaquin Valley in recent years for other purposes. The state's Republicans--and Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein--are working to prevent that intervention, but it would be legal under current law. Conflicts between Republicans and Democrats, the state and federal government, and between different regions of California could deepen.

The enviro-nuts want to protect "endangered" fish species from having their natural water habitats disturbed by the diversion of water from reservoirs in the north to the Central Valley, where the vast majority of U.S. produce is grown. Farmers are saying if there isn't going to be an increase in their water allocation, there is no sense in planting crops doomed to fail.

The Democratic Party's failure to help farmers grow their crops will result in higher prices at the supermarket, increased unemployment because the migrant workers will have nothing to pick, and bankruptcies among farmers, many of whose families have been growing produce in California for generations.

The march to oblivion in the U.S. continues unabated, with the liberal/Marxist Democrats leading the "parade."

 

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Courts did similar in southern OR few years back - fish over farmers. At least when man is gone the bears will have their fish OR's newest is to get rid of all non-native species. Would love to ask them when they are leaving the state cuz we ain't so native ourselves.