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| Environmentalists have Created A California Dust Bowl Famine |
| 2011-01-02 |
| Until recently, California's Central Valley was one of the nation's most productive agricultural regions. Not only did it feed itself, the state of California, and the entire country, it also produced exports to other nations. That kind of enterprise employed a lot of people in Central California, from farm hands to wholesalers, and created a high standard of living. That continued right up to the moment that the federal government got more concerned over the Delta smelt, a small, inedible fish, than feeding people. A court order cut off water deliveries for seven months out of the year to the Central Valley at the same time a drought hit, and the combination turned a once-fertile breadbasket to the world into a Dust Bowl -- or as Investors Business Daily suggests, a government-initiated agricultural disaster on the same order as Zimbabwe today or Ukraine in the 1930s. Monica Showalter reports that the region that once fed the world now faces widespread hunger as a result: |
| Posted by:Pholung Snuter1333 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
