By Patrick Wood, Editor
California faces many crisis, not the least of which is merely financial. How much more can it take before it collapses?
Businesses and the wealthy are still leaving in droves because of skyrocketing taxes and poor service, leaving behind the welfare class, the naive, and multitudes of illegal aliens.
For decades, California has been willing to dole out money to everyone it perceived in need. Illegal aliens were given full social benefits, including emergency room health care services, all paid for by legitimate citizens and taxpayers. Of course, giveaways to the poor are always a good way to buy votes to stay in office.
As income dwindles and the tax base crumbles, California is coming unglued. For those to whom the state owes money, it delivers IOU’s instead. in fact, there are so many IOU’s that they could become a competitive currency to the U.S. dollar.
So, this isn’t a good time for California to experience its third year of severe drought. The state isn’t bone dry yet, but its getting close.
In a letter to the president on June 19, the governor requested a federal state of emergency for Fresno County, one of the most fertile and productive farming areas in California:
“I request that you declare a major disaster for the State of California in the County of Fresno commencing April 14, 2009, and continuing as a result of severe drought conditions that have devastated California for the third consecutive year.“
The governor had already issued an emergency proclamation on June 11 that declared “conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property existed in the counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare caused by extreme drought conditions.”
Farmers are hunkered down using what little water they have to keep their orchard trees alive while abandoning fertile farmland used for field crops. As farmers pump more and more water from the aquifer, the San Joaquin basin continues to sink.
Yes, sink. Since 2006 some surface areas in the valley have dropped as much as 50 feet. Ground water supplies just cannot be replenished fast enough to offset necessary pumping activities.
All this is to say that California has a multitude of critical and urgent problems, all of which are not just financial in nature. The ultimate fate of California will affect the entire country in one way or another.
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Creating crisis
Any analysis of California water issues must assess the Delta and its smelt protection. This is the typical ‘global to local’ Action Plan designed to create crisis so to advance the globalist goals. These goals include severe limitation of water use for the people in America and throughout the world (World Bank). Standards of living are being reduced in America so to establish a low common (world wide) denominator in pursuit of Agenda 21/Sustainable objectives.
No disagreement with that. My main point was to say that California has multiple calamities at the same time. The water situation in northern and central valley is the worst that I can remember, and there is absolutely no solution other than a whole lot of continuous rain and snow; and even then, with the Delta issues, there is no guarantee that the water will ever get to those farmers who really need it.
California is a prime example of what happens to a state when they say “yes” to taking care of everyone, including those without green cards. It has not worked in California and will not work on the national level either.