Fact: The US Government has stopped the water supply to farmers in Fresno California and California’s fertile San Joaquin Valley.
Fact: This area is in drought conditions.
Fact: Water has been cut off to protect a tiny minnow-sized fish critical in the ecological life-support system for orcas and several salmon families – A MINNOW.
Fact: The area has the eighth highest unemployment rate among the state’s 57 counties.
Fact: The farms employ Mexican immigrants – documented farm workers.
Fact: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger has declared the valley counties a disaster area and hopes for $3 million to $4 million a month in extended unemployment benefits and other aid to the targeted cities and counties. The Obama administration has yet to sign off on the request.
Fact: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited the stricken area and listened to the plight from county and city elected officials, state representatives, farmers and laborers. That was June 28. He promised nothing and no directives have been issued from his office on the subject since that time.
Fact: The delta smelt, the threatened minnow destined on the Endangered Species list, plug the drains releasing water to the farm lands. As a result, the Westlands Water District serving Mendota, a city in Fresno County, restricted the federal water allotment to farmlands to 10%. One result is planted fields going to rot and the other Mendota’s unemployment rate reaching 41%.
My Conclusion…
The US Government is not releasing water to this area because a majority of the people impacted are Hispanic. Our nation’s leaders, including our President, should drop their racist approach to water rationing and PUT THESE PEOPLE BACK TO WORK!
Action…
Call your elected congressman and senator and tell them to stop the racially-based water rationing actions against the Hispanic farm workers.
Oh wait… maybe it is not race. Maybe the liberal lunes think more about a minnow than the citizens of Fresno. If this were Bezerkly I might agree.
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