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When government officials create a $20 billion program (that is just the cost of ONE water bond measure) in secret--you know they are embarrassed by it.
When they have special interests helping make the deal, you know it is bad (no one has denied that the "negotiators" have had "private" conversations with the monopolistic unions--giving them total control, public over the workers on these projects--in exchange for their support. In other words this will be a Cuban style policy--secret negotiations, government control, and workers forced to pay bribes if they want to work.
"# Dams. Republicans, farmers, many urban water districts and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger support placing a $9.4 billion bond measure on the November 2010 ballot. About one-third of that money would
go toward planning and construction of several new dams, including one called Sites Reservoir in Colusa County and one called Temperance Flat in the hills east of Fresno. Other funds would pay for groundwater storage, water recycling and other supply. The key question is whether the bonds would be repaid by the state's general fund, hampering an already overdrawn treasury, or by the farmers and cities who use the water."
We all know the environmentalist and the "Delta smelt Fan Club" will stop most projects for years. Actually we have the water available TODAY. Just open the pumps, and worry more about people than fish.
Until we do that, we must reject corrupt, smoke filled room deals with special interests. Do you want this deal? Oh, that is right, they won't tell you what the deal is.
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When they have special interests helping make the deal, you know it is bad (no one has denied that the "negotiators" have had "private" conversations with the monopolistic unions--giving them total control, public over the workers on these projects--in exchange for their support. In other words this will be a Cuban style policy--secret negotiations, government control, and workers forced to pay bribes if they want to work.
"# Dams. Republicans, farmers, many urban water districts and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger support placing a $9.4 billion bond measure on the November 2010 ballot. About one-third of that money would
go toward planning and construction of several new dams, including one called Sites Reservoir in Colusa County and one called Temperance Flat in the hills east of Fresno. Other funds would pay for groundwater storage, water recycling and other supply. The key question is whether the bonds would be repaid by the state's general fund, hampering an already overdrawn treasury, or by the farmers and cities who use the water."
We all know the environmentalist and the "Delta smelt Fan Club" will stop most projects for years. Actually we have the water available TODAY. Just open the pumps, and worry more about people than fish.
Until we do that, we must reject corrupt, smoke filled room deals with special interests. Do you want this deal? Oh, that is right, they won't tell you what the deal is.
More...