Comments on: Drought mostly over, govt. water takeover isn’t

By: Skippingdog

Skippingdog — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:05:06 +0000

In reply to Itachee. The folks who write this stuff never even consider factors such as the long term depletion of our aquifers in the Central Valley and elsewhere. You can always count on the CWD writers to proffer the "rape the land to make a buck" approach. Wingnuts like eck, Donkey, and some others seem to appreciate that approach.

By: Skippingdog

Skippingdog — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:01:57 +0000

In reply to eck. Water is a common good, particularly in a state subject to frequent drought. Private water rights only work as long as there is a surplus in relation to the needs of both our population and our obligation to preserve the environment for our progeny. The "tragedy of the commons" is an object lesson equally applicable to our scarce water resources. Only a crackpot ideologue would claim other otherwise, eck.

By: Itachee

Itachee — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:23:11 +0000

With all due respect to whoever wrote it, the title on this article “Drought Mostly Over…..” isn’t jsut grossly misleading it is about as far from the truth as one can get. As a retired water resources engineer I can tell you the recent rains have hardly even put a dent in drought recovery. Recovery from the will drought takes years. In point of fact we would need such storms to continue for at least 2-3 years before recovery would have occurred.

By: eck

eck — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:38:11 +0000

In reply to T Mind of your Ted Godhead System. Grow up dickhead

By: eck

eck — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:37:36 +0000

In reply to SkippingDog. Nooo, nooo, the wrong question completely. The real question (except for you ultra-left types) is "Why would you want our government involved?"

By: T Mind of your Ted Godhead System

T Mind of your Ted Godhead System — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:37:11 +0000

Maybe we can let Sony fix our droughts? I mean they re private sector pros, riiiight?

Oh—no—-wait——-this just handed to me…..they are surrender monkeys
It’s our President who kills terrorists and takes action!

By: SkippingDog

SkippingDog — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:01:12 +0000

Since drought is a recurring feature of our state, why would you not want our government involved in mitigating its impact? Whether our current drought is ending is still an open question. What is not an open question is whether or not there will be another severe drought in our future.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:17:29 +0000

Rahm Emanuel when he was White House Chief of Staff in 2009 during the worst time of the Great Recession, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” He meant the crisis was a great excuse to vastly increase government’s powers, which Obama and the Democratic Congress of those days did.

Exactly. And the libtards and trough feeders that infest this blog would have it no other way. And to allow all this to happen they depend on a compliant, do nothing populous that are nothing more than sheeple. Scare the shiite outta the sheeple and they’ll coming running to there government masters everytime, baa’ing with alacrity.

By: Tesla_x

Tesla_x — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:52:41 +0000

Why should we not think that this was the endgame from the start?

They used the drought and the SMELT FRAUD, as an excuse to STEAL water rights, and to increase costs to residents.

It’s that simple.

DEMOCRATS and environmental EXTREMISTS have partially succeeded to create scarcity and raise the costs of water, food, energy.

This supports their ganGREEN businesses, and also drives otherwise healthy domestic business overseas, where environmental regulations are almost nonexistent.

It’s a lose lose for everyone (even the environment) except for corrupt DEMOCRATS, and short sighted ganGREEN business interests, living from one ‘political contribution’ or government subsidy to the next.

If the Governor has any shred of honesty left in him, he will roll back the ‘unneeded laws,’ and undo the damage to water rights owners through a clearly illegal taking of rights.