{"id":2589,"date":"2011-01-14T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2011-01-14T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:12:50","slug":"more_on_the_central_valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"More On The Central Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As prices at the grocery store begin to climb, Americans need to know some of the causes of the increase.&nbsp; One cause is the increasing cost of gasoline.&nbsp; That increase can be traced to OPEC&#8217;s goal of $100 a barrel oil and America&#8217;s unwillingness to develop its own energy resources.&nbsp; The other reason for the increase of cost at the grocery store is what has happened to the Central Valley in California.&nbsp; The water which irrigates the Central Valley has been turned off the protect a small, inedible fish called the delta smelt.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/13\/video-federal-policies-failing-the-central-valley\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;posted a video yesterday explaining the consequences of government actions.<\/p>\n<p>The article at Hot Air concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The crisis in the Central Valley comes directly from the application of the Endangered Species Act to the Delta smelt, one of a number of bait fish species indigenous to the area.&nbsp; The order by a federal judge relying on that law cut off irrigation to a massive area of arable land and created a vast wasteland out of a farming bonanza, all to protect one species of inedible fish.&nbsp; Congress needs to curtail the ESA and get the water turned back on in the valley.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I drove through the Central Valley last summer.&nbsp; There was signs everywhere saying, &#8220;Stop the Pelosi, Reid Dust Bowl.&#8221;&nbsp; The people who live there are suffering economically due to government policies.&nbsp; It&#8217;s time&nbsp;the power of the government to put honest people out of business was curtailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As prices at the grocery store begin to climb, Americans need to know some of the causes of the increase.&nbsp; One cause is the increasing cost of gasoline.&nbsp; That increase can be traced to OPEC&#8217;s goal of $100 a barrel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}