HOW does Obama cause a drought?

“California’s San Joaquin Valley is facing 14.3% unemployment thanks largely to a drought … a man made drought caused by the Endangered Species Act.”

Ken, maybe before you comment you should investigate the facts. San Joaquin Valley is a Bioregion of California. There are eight Counties’ in the region that is mostly farming, agricultural producing bioregion that two millions California resident. California environmentalist and federal regulations designed to protect the likes of the three-inch long delta smelt; one of America's premier agricultural regions is suffering in a drought made worse by federal regulations.

The Red Herring and Delta Smelt have been declared an endangered species, which they are federally protected by Endangered Species Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued what is known as a "biological opinion" imposing water reductions on the San Joaquin Valley. As a result, tens of billions of gallons of water from mountains east and north of Sacramento have been channeled away from farmers which is how their crops were irrigated naturally and into the ocean to save a three inch fish and leaving hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land uncultivated or scorched and dried up.

I became aware of the issue when Actor/Comedian Paul Rodriguez made their plight known. He has some families there that work in the agricultural area. Rodriguez is so concerned about water that he helped create the California Latino Water Coalition so their voices are heard. He led marches with several thousand people in recent weeks, and spoke one night to a convention of the conservative California Republican Assembly in Bakersfield.

He has asked to speak with Obama’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, he said he left messages, asked for a meeting and asked Obama to help these people (who mostly voted for Obama). He has called for the local politicians to help and Gubernator had set aside some funds to help, but when trying to balance the California budget by reducing many programs the help they were expecting is no where to be seen now.

Why the people in that region do blame both Obama and his Agriculture Secretary because they added even more regulations to the uses of the natural water that flows from the mountains of California and because of the state water restrictions they cannot install an irrigation systems either. Therefore, they sit back and hope it rains, but not the 40 days and 40 nights of rainfall. To day, there has been no response from the White House or the Secretary of Agriculture. The longer they don’t respond, the angry crowds grow.

Since a majority of the workers on these farms are Hispanic, mostly legal California residents who pay their taxes. Since they are unable to sell the property because it is worthless or try to find other uses for the land, they are now owners of unusable acreage. If they aren’t making any money they will eventually have none to pay their federal and state taxes, and according to some in the region, it is coming close to that point. During an interview with Paul Rodriguez, he had one of those farmers with him. He stated that he would hire area workers, estimated to be about 40 to 50 people, many who were already poor and paid them nice salaries. When it was picking time, he hired even more, 100-150 so they could get the produce out and paid them $100 dollars a day. They said that the unemployment rate in the area is about 35-40%.

The longer these farmers cannot grow their fruits and vegetables there is less in the marketplace; which pushes the prices up higher, as the demand increases. (Remember the FDR plan to stop farmers from producing their produce by driving up the prices as demand grows higher? Another liberal retread). To learn more read the article here. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-gre…

If government run health care would be anything like this governmental department (imagine the DMV on steroids) then we're in deep deep trouble!

Governmental control of any aspect of our lives is total chaos! God help us all!

"Mandates" indeed!!!!!! That is not how this nation was set up to proceed.

Let us pray that this individual can be stopped.

Those who think that ol Floppy Ears is good, need to read von Hayek's book:"On the road to serfdom". They are potentially the prime targets in the future.

The only difference is, we who are not with this person and his ilk will not go quietly. We have worked, and died too many times to let this be destroyed.

This man is the scariest, most ruthless, arrogant, pompous, two faced, side stepping, lying politician I have ever been witness to. His history alone (or lack thereof) is enough to make me question his every motive, then he has Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid backing him.. This isn't good, not for us or our nation.

It seems like every move he makes is straight out of the Marxist handbook..

One other thing that scares me is that he had ordered all textbooks written prior to 1985 detstroyed as one of his initial acts as president..