Representatives from the State Department of Water Resources held in meeting in Stockton with about 120 farmers to try and overcome their resistance to the idea of a Peripheral Canal around the Sacramento Delta.
With illegal immigration still running rampant, banks absconding with depositors accounts despite so-called deposit insurance and regulations, Ponzi schemes galore, and government authorizing wind and solar farms in pristine desert areas originally set aside as ecological "preserves," the representative at the meeting from the Department of Water Resources had the gall to say that "we are a system of laws" and not mob rule when it comes to water. Here is how the Stockton Record newspaper reported it:
Dante Nomellini Jr., representing Delta farmers, asked state Department of Water Resources Deputy Director Jerry Johns what assurance he would give that only surplus water would be diverted into the canal, even during a drought. "We are a system of laws," Johns said, at which the crowd laughed.
One of the crowd was quoted as saying:
"Didn't most of that land use to be desert anyway?" asked 25-year-old Blake Joaquin, a wakeboarder. "Why should we give them our water?"
Maybe those in Northern California don't understand that the water system in California is socialized. It isn't Northern California's water that pours into the Sacramento Delta from the Sierra snowpack.
Contrary to the current media zeitsgeist, it isn't markets that are failing but socialized systems that are failing, whether in banking, finance, or water. But that isn't what is being reported.
Read story here:
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090325/A_NEWS/903250323/-1/rss01
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