Comments on: Congress created a dust bowl? http://www.highwayhags.com/2009/06/01/dust-bowl-post/ We drive. We blah. We blah and drive and blah. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bob http://www.highwayhags.com/2009/06/01/dust-bowl-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6490 Bob Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:42:49 +0000 http://www.highwayhags.com/?p=2203#comment-6490 We have met the enemy, and it is us. I saw the signs too on a recent trip through CA. They clearly were placed for maximum impact, just as anyone would buy ad time in a maximum exposure time slot. That does not diminish the message however. The only thing wrong with the salmon industry is overfishing, and agriculture, overplanting. Why? Because we (you and I) want cheap food. We demand it, and the market dictates. By the way, we also feed a large portion of the world, keeping millions alive on this planet. Call me names if you want, but if this is about some endangered smelt, I'll come down on the side of human survival every time. We have met the enemy, and it is us. I saw the signs too on a recent trip through CA. They clearly were placed for maximum impact, just as anyone would buy ad time in a maximum exposure time slot. That does not diminish the message however. The only thing wrong with the salmon industry is overfishing, and agriculture, overplanting. Why? Because we (you and I) want cheap food. We demand it, and the market dictates. By the way, we also feed a large portion of the world, keeping millions alive on this planet. Call me names if you want, but if this is about some endangered smelt, I’ll come down on the side of human survival every time.

]]> By: Paul K http://www.highwayhags.com/2009/06/01/dust-bowl-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6442 Paul K Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:04:24 +0000 http://www.highwayhags.com/?p=2203#comment-6442 How is the federal government diverting precious water resources to central valley farmers anything but a federal government handout? And then, when the water gets rationed due to drought, or they even raise the price to get closer in line to the actual costs of pumping the water 300 miles to the farms, the agri-business welfare queens get their panties in a bunch. Yeah, go to Texas, where welfare for corporations is more strongly supported. How is the federal government diverting precious water resources to central valley farmers anything but a federal government handout? And then, when the water gets rationed due to drought, or they even raise the price to get closer in line to the actual costs of pumping the water 300 miles to the farms, the agri-business welfare queens get their panties in a bunch. Yeah, go to Texas, where welfare for corporations is more strongly supported.

]]> By: Good Riddance http://www.highwayhags.com/2009/06/01/dust-bowl-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6344 Good Riddance Tue, 25 May 2010 18:30:51 +0000 http://www.highwayhags.com/?p=2203#comment-6344 It's not just the delta smelt. It's the fact that the rivers that the delta smelt needs are being dried up and degraded. Those rivers are also essential to the Salmon and Steelhead that spawn there. ...and you can't play the "poor people who want to make a living card" because there are plenty of poor fishermen on the coast who depend on those salmon to make a living. Billions of tax dollars have gone to drastically alter the hydrology of California and provide subsidized water to the central valley farmers. Now that water is needed elsewhere and it's needed immediately. Once those salmon runs are destroyed and once those delta smelt are extinct, they are gone forever. By all means, please pack up your knee-jerk anti liberal nonsense and head off to the Alamo. I promise I won't try to stop you. It’s not just the delta smelt. It’s the fact that the rivers that the delta smelt needs are being dried up and degraded. Those rivers are also essential to the Salmon and Steelhead that spawn there. …and you can’t play the “poor people who want to make a living card” because there are plenty of poor fishermen on the coast who depend on those salmon to make a living. Billions of tax dollars have gone to drastically alter the hydrology of California and provide subsidized water to the central valley farmers. Now that water is needed elsewhere and it’s needed immediately. Once those salmon runs are destroyed and once those delta smelt are extinct, they are gone forever.

By all means, please pack up your knee-jerk anti liberal nonsense and head off to the Alamo. I promise I won’t try to stop you.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.highwayhags.com/2009/06/01/dust-bowl-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6328 Anthony Sat, 15 May 2010 12:07:08 +0000 http://www.highwayhags.com/?p=2203#comment-6328 Water politics gave more than half our states their boundries, Pretty important imho. Water politics gave more than half our states their boundries, Pretty important imho.

]]> By: country gentleman http://www.highwayhags.com/2009/06/01/dust-bowl-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6319 country gentleman Thu, 13 May 2010 16:02:24 +0000 http://www.highwayhags.com/?p=2203#comment-6319 what it boils down to is a itty bitty fish with a great big lawyer what it boils down to is a itty bitty fish with a great big lawyer

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