Gov. Brown's Water Plan: Hose Little Guys, Shower Cronies (Nanny of the Month, April '15)
They're tearing down kiddy forts in Utah and banning fast food in Idaho, but this month you'll find the most obnoxious finger wagger in California.
Gov. Jerry Brown has busted out an executive order filled with directives, possible fines, and court actions for bad boys and girls who shower too long or hose down their Hondas without consulting state and local code books.
We're in a new era," declares Brown. "The idea of your nice little green grass getting watered every day–that's going to be a thing of the past."
Brown's new era involves cracking down on those of us who use comparatively little water while continuing to give special treatment to agribusiness and other water-guzzling cronies.
In other words, Brown's "new" era is awfully similar to the old era that Brown and company have enforced for decades.
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But I like almonds.
Does this mean no more avocados?
No worries.....there's a shitload coming from South America! Guac away!
We have avocados here, just not Hass.
u mad, bro?
I hoped this would be one place that didn't buy the 80% to ag BS.
Half the available water goes to environmental causes.
yes considering that fact was reported here in a Reason article just this week
The problem is that making people pay water costs based on their usage is never brought up as a solution. One of the reasons why is because it may be unconstitutional:
http://www.sacbee.com/news/sta.....94072.html
So every time somebody from CA complains about people not paying their fair share for water, let them know they voted for it.
"So every time somebody from CA complains about people not paying their fair share for water, let them know they voted for it."
They also voted for moonbeam who has consistently ignored any push for additional water storage since 1975, when the population was ~half what it is now.
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It's a small thing, but this quote from Brown seems very revealing to me: "The idea of your nice little green grass getting watered every day..."
It just smacks of contempt for the average suburban dweller. As if the Joe Sixpack whose big aspiration in life was buying a three-bedroom ranch with a little patch of yard in Somewhere, Calif. is such a misguided schmuck who needs government to tell him what his priorities ought to be.
I agree 100% dude
the american dream is now somehow something to be ashamed of
If you work hard and achieve something, such as owning a home, you should be ashamed of yourself because not every person in the US owns a home and you are just perpetuating inequality
You didn't earn (build) that!
Maybe his disdain was for the wealthy and their lush landscaping? Here in Dallas the true guzzlers are the likes of Ross Perot, Tom Hicks and Jerry Jones. The elite in north Texas use 40x to 90x the amount of water than the average household. Its all part of the public record.
And I've heard there are some rich people in California.
Well, the libs have always hated the idea that, as soon a someone made some money, they ran, as fast as they could, out of the cities, after progressives had made shitholes out of them.
This is commie payback, brother.
couldn't the shortage be solved by charging the market value cost of the water? Seems like the problem is that the water subsidy has allowed for the overpopulation of a water stricken region. Government makes the problem, government 'solves' the problem.
What is the "market value" of something that falls from the sky and is dispensed by monopolies in, virtually every city?
Water service is a public utility - we can't have everyone, who wants to provide water service, dig up the streets to lay pipe - and is regulated as to what it costs to deliver.
In fact a law was passed that an agency couldn't charge excessively more for added use, unless they could show that extra use - don't forget the cost of the product is almost nothing - cost more to deliver.
Much of what moonbeam is proposing will run right up against that voter-passed law.
Fallacy and idiocy from top to bottom.
Leftoid economics never consider the possibility of replacement. They say, "There is only one way that X can be provided, competition is nebulous (re: the usual suspects), therefore the state should do Y to try to control X". This mentality completely misses the fact that if someone charged too much for X, it would be replaced by something better. In the choice of static vs. dynamic, the statist sees a static glacier when he considers the economy--and it better stay that way, brother.
This is the same mendacious twit who is giddily throwing dollars at the train to nowhere to the tune of billions and billions. Here's an idea - if you have to be a statist, how about canceling that piece of crap, and use the money instead for desalination plants? I recognize they're still expensive, but hey, at least you'd be solving a real problem with the money you've confiscated from us.
Instead of wasting (redistributing to cronies) all that money on high-speed train boondoggles, how about investing in a couple water desalinization plants?
oops 🙁 sorry Curtisis87
No need to apologize - you're not Bill Clinton 🙂
Besides, you added the thought about redistribution to cronies - how could I have missed it!
Guys,
That choo-choo is a union hiring hall on wheels.
Why, just the last several months, the Bay Area train (BART) discovered to their dismay that some of the trackage needs repair! And (since according to the unions) the train has plenty of money to grant raises, why there seems to be none left for maintenance!
They really don't want to raise taxes or the public debt, you understand, but where else are they to get the money for this?
Rinse and repeat endlessly for moonbeam's choo-cho.
The governor of this state is evil. He has lied over and over to the residents of the State and it appears that nobody will call him out. This is not only a fight of urban vs agriculture it is a battle of north vs south. The south has worked hard to address planning and storage as well as conservation and the north has done little other than attempt to save worthless fish. This is much like his lie that high speed rail is good for the poor. His is a totalitarian in word and deed.
Not even North v. South:
It is the Coastal Gentry against everyone else.
Then there are all the pot growers illegally accessing water in the Humboldt Forest.
People should watch the governors mansion and all his family's yard, if they stay green and every body elses struggles, they need to protest by the masses.
Ah, follow the money, guys?
If I have a wet, green lawn in CA, I don't pay much, if any, extra taxes to anyone for that, but if I grow shit and sell it, there is a whole chain of tax money (and payola) that flows back to the State.
Go figure?
C'mon....
Wasn't it just last year that I read about people in California being fined for NOT watering their lawns? I guess the powers that be were not watching the water problem, until they let it become a crisis!
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