Delta Fares

Since California farmers lose their jobs by the tens of thousands what good is a farm bill bringing in guest?

Since California farmers lose their jobs by the tens of thousands what good is a farm bill bringing in thousands of guest workers ?As California farmers lose their jobs by the tens of thousands to protect a tiny fish, the sad irony is that the delta smelt may not be faring much better. That's not because of inadequate protections against humans offered by state and federal officials, but rather because those officials seem incapable of saving the delta smelt from nature's predators. The smelt rarely grows much longer than three inches, and it is prey for any number of other creatures that inhabit the rivers of the San Joaquin Valley. As Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), noted at a recent congressional hearing, the water diversions have not helped the delta smelt populations. There are quite a few officials who believe that the delta smelt is on Darwin's fast track to extinction, despite the feel-good efforts of human environmentalists. McClintock's congressional colleague, George Radanovich, is even rooting it on, calling the smelt "a worthless little worm that needs to go the way of the dinosaur." For their part, environmentalists who sue on behalf of the delta smelt consider the tiny fish to be an absolutely critical part of the food chain, feeding on plankton and in turn serving as food for larger fish and birds. If the delta smelt disappears, they warn ominously, the local food chain collapses. Whether that's true or not, what the policies boil down to should be a matter of picking your calamity: should the fish (and others in the food chain) suffer, or should humans? http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/11/emptying-reservoirs-in-the-mid/1

Public Comments

1. I thought George W Bush taught us that "man and fish can coexist". I guess he was wrong on that also.
2. So how do you expect them to get people to work when Americans don't want those jobs?
3. It's California, there's a reason they are going bankrupt. You must remember environmentalist believe humans should not exist, they don't care about human suffering.
4. Because they aspire to much more lofty and challenging pursuits of life, people with real God given talents leave the environmental movement in the hands of small minded indictive losers. These people are easily motivated to have power and authority ( without question ) over everyone that comes in scope of their control. They are also easily used by enemies of Americans and our way of living. We are severly restricted to carve a way of living out of our land and the use of God given resources. Someone said that the environmental agencies are the new home of the anti capitalists and brain dead communists. I am inclined to believe them.