If nothing else, social media teaches us this: not everybody should be on social media. Case in point…
Drought or no drought, Steve Yuhas resents the idea that it is somehow shameful to be a water hog. If you can pay for it, he argues, you should get your water.
People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”
Now, I sympathize with the attitude that if you have to pay taxes, then you should get something back for that: I truly do. But if I was living in “the ultra-wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe” I would not be going on social media telling people that they should just deal with the fact that I can afford to pay through the nose for all the water I want and they can’t. In fact, I would no longer be living in Rancho Santa Fe, largely because if it doesn’t start raining soon Rancho Santa Fe is probably going to end up being burned down by an angry Mob. One that’s led by California Democratic officials desperate to have somebody else to blame for the fact that they deliberately neglected to build a hydro-infrastructure that could handle a drought.
Moe Lane
PS: Well, since you’re asking… crash program of desalinization plants, let the delta smelt go extinct, and start arresting Greenies who get in the way of rebuilding the state’s water infrastructure. But since I am not the absolute dictator of California and have no desire to be, I will content myself with simply staying out of the state until the inhabitants resolve their situation.
PPS: If you want to have a graphic demonstration of just how bad our school system can get, take a gander at the people being quoted in an article. Maybe 10% of those folks seem to have any historical awareness about just what horrid things can be covered under the euphemism ‘civil disorder.’
It has to do with the fact that many liberals think that rules should only apply to the “little people.”
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A lot of the mess in California has to do with their wacky environmental regulations. If they had built a bunch of desalination plants they wouldn’t be in the mess they are currently finding themselves in.
some nuclear power plants to run them would be nice, too.
I don’t have time to go chasing it down, because it was a few months ago; but I seem to remember reading a report that when whatever California calls its Division of Wildlife took its annual survey of the Delta Smelt population they could not find any. They may well be extinct already. Not that it would stop them flushing all the water for the Central Valley farms out to sea. The State cannot be seen to have failed at anything. Otherwise the plebeians may lose faith in the almighty State.
… I would not be going on social media telling people that they should just deal with the fact that I can afford to pay through the nose for all the water I want and they can’t.
Although this is a more intellectually and morally honest attitude than the one held by a man who takes $5 million vacations, flies around in a five-gallons-per-mile jumbo jet, and lectures the country about how “we” have to cut “our” CO₂ emissions.
In fact, I would no longer be living in Rancho Santa Fe, largely because if it doesn’t start raining soon Rancho Santa Fe is probably going to end up being burned down by an angry Mob.
If it doesn’t start raining soon, there won’t be any need for an angry mob — brushfires will get ’em first.
Rancho Santa Fe: Piss off enough farmers and see whose water supply gets attacked, by people who know how.
Lemme guess, you’re all big gun control supporters, right?
Uh-huh…