Government Made Environmental Terror

29 December 2009

Here is the story.
Hundreds of thousands acres of farm land in California’s San Joaquin Valley are today an arid desert, thanks to the intervention of one federal judge who sided with law suits filed by environmental terrorist groups.
At the focal point of the issue is a 3 inch long fish called the Delta Smelt. This fish, who’s habitat is confined to the Sacramento Delta, was supposedly placed on the endangered list because a large number of them was getting killed in the water pumps that brought water coming from the mountains around Sacramento, from the delta to the farmland that was once one of the most fertile land in the world, providing food for the entire Nation.
Also supposedly, the dire situation of the Delta Smelt impacted the local salmon population, at least according to some biological reports used by the environmental terrorist to support their legal suits.
Inspired by the Endangered Species Act, federal judge Oliver Wanger issued an order for the shutting down of the water pumps feeding the California farmland. Now the millions of gallons of water that once provided life to the fields of the Sacramento Valley farms, dumps right into the Pacific Ocean, aggravating even more the drought situation of California.
The consequences of the action have been devastating for the farmers of the Sacramento area, with unemployment rates reaching the 40% in certain local areas. Additional effects on the rest of the state has been the skyrocketing cost of water for all Californians and increase in cost of produce that now has to be imported from as far as China.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is refusing to invoke an emergency panel of the Dept. of Interior, called the “God Squad” designated to analyze emergencies just like the one California farmers are finding themselves in.

The pumps remain silent as thousands of farmers are now depending on governmental assistance, millions of Californians are hit financially and the land that once provided food for millions of Americans is just a desert.

And now here are my thoughts.
This situation in California is just one more sign of the abyss our country has fallen thanks to the progressive ideology that has taken the reins of our country.
We have a political leadership, at every level and from both Parties that is so deeply detached from the needs of the people that it could be very easily considered as a country within a country.
From the Left in power we have the continuous, unobstructed march toward turning as many Americans into dependents of the government. People who depend on the government for their survival, for the food on their table are less incline to “fire” the politicians in power. Dependence on the government creates a loyal constituency, just as demonstrated by the continuous re-elections of corrupted politicians like Maxine Waters and many others.

From the Right we have spineless politician who are not capable or willing to stand up for the American people, especially here on the Left Coast. RINOs like the Governor are not, in reality, espousing the Conservative ideologies that voters expect from them, caving in to political correctness and special interest pressures.

There is nobody, on the elected official list, willing to stand up and confront domestic terrorism, which is the exact goal of environmentalist groups.
There is really no other way to describe the actions of any group that put the interests of a fish in front of the livelihood of thousands of people. These groups have been a detriment to our Nation, only aided by the lack of common sense, by the lack of resolution, by the spineless submissive behavior of elitist politicians who are so detached from reality, that are so immersed in their self-serving, oligarchic little world, that they should be run out of town.

What happened to our valiant California Senators? Dianne Feinstein has pledged to put pressure on the Sec. of Interior Ken Salazar, while that pinnacle of corruptness and ignorance of Barbara Boxer has been missing in action on the subject. Californians should be very happy about their representation in Congress!

And while the land that once fed millions dies, we can all be happy that the unemployed farmers can get government assistance and line up in food lines to receive produce imported from China.

Can someone remind me why these politicians are in office? And are the American people become so stupid, dependent and unprincipled that these people continue to get re-elected?
How sad.

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”