{"id":688,"date":"2009-04-05T19:02:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2009-04-05T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:02:47","slug":"the_law_of_unintended_conseque_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"The Law Of Unintended Consequences In California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breakingnews\/ci_12038004?nclick_check=1\">Mercury News<\/a>&nbsp;ran a story last week on how the Endangered Species Act is negatively effecting California farmers and farm jobs in the state.&nbsp; Because the Endangered Species Act protects the 3-inch-long delta smelt, there have been court-ordered reductions in the amount of water pumped to some farmers in the San Joaquin Valley.&nbsp; California congressmen pleaded with their colleagues Tuesday to make an emergency exception to the federal Endangered Species Act.&nbsp; Representative Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, said the unemployment rate in his district is nearly 20 percent and is nearing 50 percent in some communities.&nbsp; The area that is being denied the water for farmland is the most productive areas for farming in the country.&nbsp; To continue to cut off their water supply not only impacts the unemployment rate, it will eventually impact the food supply for this country.&nbsp; At some point we need to begin to balance the&nbsp;wishes of the environmentalists and the needs of the people.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This is not just a California story.&nbsp; With the addition of the polar bear to the endangered species list, any activity that produces carbon could be monitored and impacted by the Endangered Species Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercury News&nbsp;ran a story last week on how the Endangered Species Act is negatively effecting California farmers and farm jobs in the state.&nbsp; Because the Endangered Species Act protects the 3-inch-long delta smelt, there have been court-ordered reductions in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=688\">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-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}