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2011-01-02 Home Front: Politix

Environmentalists have Created A California Dust Bowl Famine

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Posted by Pholung Snuter1333 2011-01-02 00:10|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 This is entirely the result of federal government intervention in agriculture, which might be understandable if it was intended to help agriculture.

Where in the US constitution is the Federal Government given power over agriculture?

Posted by john frum 2011-01-02 07:10|| 2011-01-02 07:10|| Front Page Top

#2 One man, and one man alone, bears full responsibility for this catastrophe. Federal judge Oliver Winston Wanger.

Nominated by George H.W. Bush.

Picture of judge Wanger

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-02 07:35|| 2011-01-02 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 One man is not responsible for allowing the Federal right to regulate interstate commerce to be so twisted and perverted.

Posted by john frum 2011-01-02 07:51|| 2011-01-02 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Environmentalism has become this era's Lysenkoism. Pseudo-science in service of a pseudo-ideology.

Posted by SR-71 2011-01-02 10:10|| 2011-01-02 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 And plus the extinction of that Delta Smelt a perfectly natural process - especially if the species is so specialized that it cannot adopt to changing conditions or is specific to one particular area or stream.

But then it's not about the environment for Environmentalists anymore (if it ever has been) - its about destroying industries.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-02 10:30|| 2011-01-02 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 You'd think someone would have shot some video of the third world conditions by now.

The images would be potent to say the least.

Posted by eLarson 2011-01-02 10:46|| 2011-01-02 10:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Monica Showalter reports that the region that once fed the world now faces widespread hunger as a result:

This being the US of A, the only hungry people around are those that missed their lunch hour during a hectic workday, or bums who sold their monthly food stamp allowance for drugs. The fact is that the indigent get $200 per person to spend on food every month. $200 does not buy a lot of filet mignon, but it does buy large amounts of chicken, pork, grains and spices for preparing cooked food.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-01-02 14:47|| 2011-01-02 14:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Victor Davis Hanson has a great piece over at National Review on the current state of central valley. It is becoming like the third world there. Nice work Sacramento!

Posted by remoteman 2011-01-02 23:15|| 2011-01-02 23:15|| Front Page Top

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