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2010-12-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

California's Central Valley has become a Third World Toilet

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-12-16 10:36|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Another shining example of the virtues of socialism. I've been to two third world countries, and the descriptions here sound strikingly similar.

Posted by Keenster 2010-12-16 11:11|| 2010-12-16 11:11|| Front Page Top

#2 A real sob story here. But I have a problem with it. I've seen the Central Valley myself. How many of these unemployed farm workers are legal citizens and how many aren't? I want to know before I shed any tears.

Maybe we need a new paradigm for agriculture in this state.

You want to be Lord of the Manor and sit on the porch while Mexicans do all the work? Hmmmm. Or maybe you're some big corporation whose shareholders and officers all think of the farm the same way they would a factory? Better make sure those factory workers are legal.

I wonder how much a jar of almonds or a bottle of wine would cost if the farmers didn't have to cheat to produce it. But my fear is that they wouldn't bother. They'd sell the land to a developer who would pave it all and build a massive housing tract. I bet the developer wouldn't have any trouble getting water hookup permits either. Somehow they never do. Not in this state. Maybe the farmers just aren't greasing the right pols.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-12-16 12:31|| 2010-12-16 12:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I read it yesterday; it was quite good, but I couldn't help thinking how potent some of those images would be on video.

Posted by eLarson 2010-12-16 13:35|| 2010-12-16 13:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Victor Davis Hanson needs only to mount his bicycle at Stanford University's Hoover Institute and ride 5 miles to the northeast. He will be in the Redwood City neighborhood in which I was raised. He will see what used to be lawns turned into parking lots and what used to be flower beds growing corn, squash and peppers.
My own birthplace is now housing two to three families.

All this only 25 miles south of Nancy Pelosi's digs.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-12-16 13:59|| 2010-12-16 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Redwood City, Climate Best by Government Test.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-12-16 14:14|| 2010-12-16 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Welcome to the globalist vision of the world for all of us but the wealthiest. Soros is proud, I'm sure.

Who was it that wanted all this illegal immigration to staff the farms with slave labor? The farmers and corporations that have taken over farming. Blaming it stricly on socialists is pretty humorous. Everytime anyone says anything about restricting third world immigration, we get all the sob stories about the price of lettuce.

The only farming family I've ever met from the San Joaquin Valley had a fleet of Rolls-Royces and whose son traded stocks for his own account in a beach house in Los Angeles.

Welcome to the brave new world of globalism, where you plunder and move on, leaving the mess behind.

Posted by Black Charlie Chinemble5313 2010-12-16 14:36|| 2010-12-16 14:36|| Front Page Top

#7 This is offensive to third world toilets.

Posted by Iblis 2010-12-16 16:40|| 2010-12-16 16:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Do not forget, the State Legislature removed the water rights from the farmers to the populated areas. Not very long ago.

Posted by newc 2010-12-16 17:44|| 2010-12-16 17:44|| Front Page Top

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