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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/carly-fiorina-california-drought_n_7014468.html(Sorry, I can't do cut & paste with this for some reason.)
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)If you build a reservoir, the water will come!
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)It's full on nuts. To think, some people actually thought it was a good idea to put this dimwit in charge of a technology company.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)to quote the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett.
Gothmog
(145,243 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided, Fiorina, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck. Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which Californias population has doubled.
Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other peoples lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I can never cut & paste from HP.
marym625
(17,997 posts)I have never had a problem. Wish I could tell you some secret but I don't have one. Sorry
Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)4/6/15
WASHINGTON -- Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on Monday blamed environmentalists for what she called a "man-made" drought in California, which has led to the state's first water restrictions.
With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided, Fiorina, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck. Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which Californias population has doubled.
Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other peoples lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.
The drought, now officially in its fourth year, prompted Gov. Jerry Brown (D) last week to order a 25 percent reduction in water consumption. The order does not apply to the agriculture industry, which consumes nearly 80 percent of the state's water.
...There's nothing magical in and of themselves to build a (reservoir) facility," Lester Snow, the executive director of the California Water Foundation, told the Bee last year. "If we had two more surface storage facilities that we built 10 years ago -- pick any of the two that people are talking about -- they would both be very low right now. There's a tendency to pull down our surface storage when we get mildly short of water."
..."For a science denier to opine that Democrats caused the drought in California is about as irrational as believing someone who failed at running a business in California and then failed as a candidate for office in California has any cause to be running for the highest office in the land," Bobby Whithorne, the group's spokesman, said in a statement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/carly-fiorina-california-drought_n_7014468.html
npk
(3,660 posts)Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other peoples lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.
Gee sacrificing others peoples lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. Hmm interesting. Kinda like denying a woman her right to an abortion, or trying to stop gay marriage or insisting that people be allowed to discriminate based on their religion. Where have we seen this.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Those two water projects would have solved the water problems.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)out of that financial hole is to open more bank accounts.
treestar
(82,383 posts)yeah, the money will just appear in those new accounts!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)in a lab and give them unlimited time and funding. Even then, they could not come up with this kind of 100% pure stupidium. Jebus wept.
treestar
(82,383 posts)When you point out that the Depression occurred, so capitalism unregulated is not always good, they blame the previous government regulations.
Unregulated capitalism will lead to preservation of the environment because it is in the best interests of the capitalist to have a clean environment. The only reason the environment is a mess is because of the previous government regulations. I think they may actually have themselves convinced.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)A millennium ago, there weren't 40m people living there and a huge ag industry.
Then she randomly blames this on environmentalists like they caused the drought.
She doesn't attempt to even support this. Just throws it out there.