I am fascinated by the appalling ignorance and stupidity displayed by the many (how many are there, anyway?) elected and appointed officials in Sacramento in particular and everywhere else at every level of government in general. But, I can say that once in awhile, somebody gets it right. The Riverside Public Utilities Department has been working for ten or twenty years (I forget which) preparing for the inevitable drought. About five years ago they began a huge campaign to get Riversiders to cut back. First, it was stop wasting water. Then, it was find ways to do the same thing with less water. Then, it was make material changes to your ways so you might actually be doing something different. At every step of the way, the RPU let their rate-payers know how the campaign was going. The people meet the goals, and then some, but are now facing having to cut back farther than anyone else in the state (if you look at the cumulative cuts) when Riverside really ought not be doing this.

For, unbeknownst to the powers that be up in the exalted bureaus of Leviathan, if you get your water out of a well with a pump, you have to keep getting it out of the well on a regular basis so that it doesn’t fill up too high. Apparently, if the water rises up past a certain point it can damage the pumps. And, if the water level isn’t that low during this time of exended drought, then it won’t take much in the way of rain to fill them to overflowing because Riversiders aren’t supposed to be using enough water to do that.

I am not making this up.

So, the question for Governor Brown and his merry band of decree-meisters should be: when the pumps are damaged beyond repair by your water-wasting water policy, who should be stuck with the bill?

I hate being right all the time. I’ve repeated this truth consistently since the beginning of the politically motivated creation of this manufactured pseudo-crisis known as Global Cooling/Warming/Somethinging’ Government control of every aspect of our lives is their goal.