{"id":37761,"date":"2019-12-16T19:51:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37761"},"modified":"2019-12-16T19:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:51:48","slug":"when-politics-gets-in-the-way-of-solving-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37761","title":{"rendered":"When Politics Gets In The Way Of Solving A Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farming in the Central Valley of California, once the breadbasket of America, has almost ceased entirely because of environmentalist trying to protect a fish that may not even be a unique species, much less endangered.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2014 I posted the following quote from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldandnews.com\/article_5460906d-86b8-51f2-b8a4-804cea1a9044.html#vmix_media_id=15466608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herald and News<\/a> in 2009:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><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\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><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\">I also included the following vacation picture:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CongressCreatedDustBowl.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CongressCreatedDustBowl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CongressCreatedDustBowl.png 463w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CongressCreatedDustBowl-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CongressCreatedDustBowl-399x300.png 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a>Fast forward to the present. One America News posted the following video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y55FDIcI9ik&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;fbclid=IwAR2EhLewcPUdqChxQFXvDAtTBD0PcJ30qXNKz5aic3f-eyhasbVRiOWpWUc&amp;app=desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> on\u00a0 November 27th:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y55FDIcI9ik\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some of the most fertile land in the country lies idle. Common sense has taken a vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farming in the Central Valley of California, once the breadbasket of America, has almost ceased entirely because of environmentalist trying to protect a fish that may not even be a unique species, much less endangered. In February 2014 I posted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,1126,735,8891,183,11477,3737],"class_list":["post-37761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-central-valley","tag-congress","tag-drought","tag-endangered-species","tag-one-america-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37763,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions\/37763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}