California’s Newsom Sues Trump Administration for Efforts to Direct Water to Thirsty Farms
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California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing the Trump administration for trying to get water to suffering farmers in the state’s Central Valley.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Trump is trying to “prevent California’s rivers and wildlife from being cheated out of vital supplies.”
State leaders said boosting agricultural deliveries, a longtime campaign promise of the president, could upend fragile watersheds and threaten such protected fish as the ionic chinook salmon and delta smelt.
The Chronicle characterizes farmers as “big water users allied with Washington.”
Newsom said in a statement:
We are once again marshaling our collective resources and building on our record of strong, science-based environmental policies, to chart a new path forward for water policy in California. As stewards of this state’s remarkable natural resources, we must do everything in our power to protect them.
“The next generation of Californians deserve nothing less,” Newsom said.
The Chronicle reports that 30 percent of the state’s water supply to cities and farms comes from federal and state-run water reservoirs.
The Trump administration last month announced new rules for both water sources to lessen restrictions on giving farms access to the water supplies.
The Chronicle reported:
The administration’s changes were cheered by farmers in the San Joaquin Valley who have blamed long-standing environmental regulation for tying up water to the state’s $54 billion agricultural economy.Environmental groups, however, blasted the rules. They said additional water releases would dry up the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and the rivers that feed it, jolting a statewide ecosystem that supports not only fish but birds, bears, killer whales and other plants and animals.
“The federal plan is really a plan for extinction,” Doug Obegi, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in the Chronicle report. “I’m glad to see the state stand up to the Trump administration. This is a big deal.”
But the Trump administration defended its move.
“From the beginning, we’ve been focused on cooperative solutions with the state of California to being reliable water supplies to farms, families, communities and the environment,” Brenda Burman, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, said in a statement, adding:
Today’s announcement by Gov. Newsom is disappointing in his preference to have judges dictate these important projects instead of the career professionals at the federal and state levels who have developed a plan baed on the best science and significant input from the public.
“If that’s their choice, we’ll see them in court,” Burman said.
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By Wayne Allyn Root
Newsmax.com, October 31, 2019
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https://www.newsmax.com/wayneallynroot/california-fires-power-outage-immigration/2019/10/31/id/939607/
Illegal
Immigration Is the Reason California Is Burning
Illegal
Immigration Is the Reason California Is Burning
By Wayne Allyn Root
Newsmax.com, October 31, 2019
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https://www.newsmax.com/wayneallynroot/california-fires-power-outage-immigration/2019/10/31/id/939607/
Illegal
Immigration Is the Reason California Is Burning
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firefighting helicopter makes a water drop over the Easy Fire on October 30,
2019, near Simi Valley, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)
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California is collapsing
in front of our eyes. Everyone with the money and common sense is running for
their lives. The question is why is this happening to such a rich and beautiful
state?
Let's start
with a comparison of the taxes in California with my state of Nevada (right
next door to California). While California was burying its citizens with among
the nation’s highest personal income taxes, highest corporate income taxes,
highest sales taxes, and highest gas taxes, Nevada’s citizens have enjoyed
among the lowest taxes in the country.
That could be
why millions of people have left California in the past decade — almost all for
the low tax states like Nevada, Texas, Florida, Utah, Colorado, Washington, and
Arizona. Those states lead the nation in population growth, while California
and other high tax, blue states lead the nation in population loss.
Keep in mind
this was all before the
nonstop blackouts and $6 per gallon gas in California.
Who can live
in a place where the electric utility company shuts off the power to homes and
businesses for days on end, multiple times per year? Because the wind is
blowing hard? California has truly become a Third World Nation.
Keep in mind,
this is what you got for all those high taxes.
So why is this
happening? I lived in California for 15 wonderful years. The winds howled back
then too. We had 80 MPH Santa Ana winds. And plenty of fires, floods,
mudslides, and earthquakes. I lived through all of them. My home almost burned
three times. My car was almost carried away by a massive mudslide.
Yet in my 15
years in California, no one shut off electricity because the wind was blowing.
No one shut off electricity because there was the threat of a fire.
I’m not a
California hater. I loved my time in California. It is the most beautiful state
in America, with the greatest weather. But something has dramatically changed
since I left. Today I wouldn’t live there if you gave me a $5 million
oceanfront mansion for free.
What’s changed is disastrous
liberal policy.
Lots of
liberal ideas ruined California: high taxes, stifling regulations, climate
change policy, permissive policies towards homeless encampments, the highest
welfare benefits in the nation, a $15 minimum wage. It’s impossible to run a
business in California. Restaurants are closing by the hundreds.
And did I
mention poop, pee, and drug needles in the streets? And homeless camps
everywhere.
Now add in
blackouts that make life
miserable
and bankrupt businesses.
California
has become an unlivable third-
world
hellhole.
But despite
all those liberal policies that have contributed to the rot of California, one
issue is at the root of California’s current problems. One issue stands heads
and tails above all the rest.
First and
foremost, illegal immigration is the problem. Since I left two decades ago,
California has collectively spent hundreds of billions of dollars on illegal
aliens and their bills — public schools, free meals at school, special
bi-lingual teachers, healthcare, housing allowances, low income energy
assistance, aid to families with dependent children, prisons, cops, courts,
public defenders, welfare, food stamps, and a hundred other government
handouts. And don’t forget special lower college tuition for illegal
immigrants.
Can you
imagine if all those billions of dollars were instead spent on new
infrastructure, moving power poles underground, upgraded electrical equipment,
modernized electrical systems, homeless vets, more cops, and better schools for
children born in California. Can you imagine what a better place California
would be for its own citizens?
Think about it
in personal terms. What if a husband and father has a drug problem. He's
addicted to cocaine or heroin. He spends $20,000 a year on his drug addiction
for 20 years. That's $400,000. But his life remains in control. Until one day
he finds out his child has cancer. The bill is $100,000 (after insurance pays).
But he doesn't have the $100,000. His child is dying. If only he had the
$400,000 back that he wasted on drugs.
That's
California and illegal immigration. The state has squandered hundreds of
billions on illegal immigration in the 20 years since I've been gone. They
could use that money today. They desperately need it back to pay for the
hundred billion dollar job of upgrading and modernizing their electric grid.
But they don't
have the money. It's all
been wasted on
illegal aliens. And it's
gone forever.
I guarantee
you one thing Californians: if you had all that money back, you wouldn’t be
sitting in the dark.
In my next
column, I’ll get to Part II of the disastrous mistakes of liberalism that have
destroyed California. Think idiotic environmental policies and climate change
fraud.
That's another
few hundred billion dollars wasted — and gone forever. Think about that, as you
sit in the dark, shivering or sizzling, with your food spoiling.
Think about
that as you fill up your gas tank with $5 our $6 per gallon gas, driving on
crumbling highways, in massive traffic jams.
All the
money to fix your misery was spent
on illegal
aliens, not you. How does that
make you
feel?
Trust me, if
you impeach President Trump and elect Democrats to run the country, Democrats
will turn the whole America into one big crappy, miserable, unlivable
California.
Except you
won't even get the sunshine and perfect 75 degree days.
Wayne Allyn Root is the host of
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