{"id":21914,"date":"2014-02-16T20:27:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21914"},"modified":"2014-02-16T20:29:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:29:02","slug":"blaming-others-for-a-crisis-you-caused-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21914","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Others For A Crisis You Caused Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about the Central Valley in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">California<\/a> before. In September 2010, I posted the following vacation picture (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2210\">rightwinggranny.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_2957.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_2957-thumb-450x337.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This picture was taken driving through the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Central Valley (California)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.7061111111,-120.991388889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=37.7061111111,-120.991388889 (Central%20Valley%20%28California%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Central Valley of California<\/a>. In case you can&#8217;t read the sign, it says, &#8220;Stop the Congress Created <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dust Bowl\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dust_Bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Dust Bowl<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is what is really going on in the Central Valley of California:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A letter to the editor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldandnews.com\/article_5460906d-86b8-51f2-b8a4-804cea1a9044.html#vmix_media_id=15466608\">Herald and News<\/a>\u00a0in July 2009 stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><em>\u201cThousands of people have also become unemployed or lost the ability to farm, which adversely affects both local and national economies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><em>\u201cIn addition to the California drought, there has been court-ordered protection of a 2-inch smelt fish that has stopped the pumping of water from the delta that is necessary for agriculture in central California. If it is listed as an endangered species, it\u2019s likely that California agriculture, which supplies a third of the nation\u2019s food supply, will be permanently changed.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The water was cut off to protect the delta smelt, a small fish that was getting caught in the pumps. California is currently having a drought, but the drought has been exacerbated by the water shutoff.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ed Morrissey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Morrissey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ed Morrissey<\/a> posted an article at<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/02\/15\/obama-ca-central-valley-drought-due-to-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Hot Air<\/a> yesterday stating that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/barack_obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">President Obama<\/a> during his visit to the Central Valley blamed the drought on global warming.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zF7Tl7Mvg4U\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> video of the President&#8217;s statement:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zF7Tl7Mvg4U\" height=\"306\" width=\"478\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The article at Hot Air quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/021414-690216-failure-to-use-water-infrastructure-is-destroying-farms.htm?ref=SeeAlsohttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/a> on the history of the Central Valley drought:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The one thing that will mitigate droughts in California \u2014 a permanent feature of the state \u2014 is to restore the water flow from California\u2019s water-heavy north to farmers in the central and south. That\u2019s just what House Bill 3964, which passed by a 229-191 vote last week, does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But Obama\u2019s plan is not to get that worthy bill through the Senate (where Democrats are holding it up) but to shovel pork to environmental activists and their victims, insultingly offering out-of-work farmers a \u201csummer meal plan\u201d in his package.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe are not interested in welfare; we want water,\u201d <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Devin Nunes\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devin_Nunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Nunes<\/a> told IBD this week. He and his fellow legislator <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"David Valadao\" href=\"http:\/\/valadao.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Valadao<\/a> are both farmers who represent the worst-hit regions of the Central Valley in Congress and can only look at the president\u2019s approach with disbelief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cHe\u2019s not addressing the situation,\u201d Valadao told us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThey want to blame the drought for the lack of water, but they wasted water for the past five years,\u201d said Nunes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The two explain that California\u2019s system of aqueducts and storage tanks was designed long ago to take advantage of rain and mountain runoff from wet years and store it for use in dry years. But it\u2019s now inactive \u2014 by design. \u201cCalifornia\u2019s forefathers built a system (of aqueducts and storage facilities) designed to withstand five years of drought,\u201d said Nunes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe have infrastructure dating from the 1960s for transporting water, but by the 1990s the policies had changed,\u201d said Valadao.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Environmental special interests managed to dismantle the system by diverting water meant for farms to pet projects, such as saving delta smelt, a baitfish. That move forced the flushing of 3 million acre-feet of water originally slated for the Central Valley into the ocean over the past five years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If California would stop flushing millions of gallons of water into the ocean and give it to the farmers, the Central Valley would not be a dustbowl. It is truly a shame that President Obama chooses to use the hardship of the farmers as a political platform rather than solving the problem. This drought is not caused by global warming or climate change&#8211;it is caused by Washington politicians!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=376c56c7-933a-4c72-b5cf-b86b0f2982a1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about the Central Valley in California before. In September 2010, I posted the following vacation picture (rightwinggranny.com): This picture was taken driving through the Central Valley of California. 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