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Skans » 02 Jun 2022, 1:08 pm » wrote: ↑

02 Jun 2022, 1:08 pm

OK, let's do that.  Oil belonging to those who live along the Mississippi should not be allowed to be siphoned off and given to the Communist states of California, Washington and Oregon.  States have gone to war over less.

The nuisance flood waters sold to Nevada ranchers and California farmers would not be "stolen." I don't think you are very well versed on the topic from a factual perspective. Clearly, your knee is well conditioned to jerk, and you are properly conditioned to shriek "communism" when the topic of diverting government teat from the military industrial complex to actual civic uses for the good of the public is broached. But not all government projects of scale = "communism."

Okay, sure - maybe Bush's creation of the department of homeland security was a bit communist (or a LOT communist) - not gonna say we haven't had some commie **** going on in the white house. But when flood abatement makes you scream about commies under the bed? Dude, the 80s want their pants-pissing back. 

By the way? I don't believe that Washington and Oregon are in the path of the Colorado River, which would be the recipent of the nuisance waters. But the republican states of Utah, Wyoming and Arizona are, as are blue Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado, along with American fruit-nut--and-veggie-basket California.