“Ve need vater…ve need vater…ve need vater”

The recent “60 Minutes” opened with an embarrassing scene of Governor Schwarzenegger cheerleading a rally last summer of thousands of farm workers and growers who were protesting water being withheld from land in the Central Valley.

Prime farmland is drying up because environmentalists insist on protecting a non-endangered, non-indigenous bait fish.

There IS water in irrigation canals, but it is going into the ocean instead of the farmland.

The Governor led the crowd in chanting,

“Ve need vater…ve need vater….ve need vater,” at the rally.

It looked kind of silly, but you never know what will work till you try it. So I called the humans and dogs into the kitchen and chanted:

“Ve vant food…ve vant food…ve vant food…”

They all looked at me like “…shouldn’t someone (you) be getting out some pots and pans, boiling water, sautéing something, opening a can, instead of—whatever it is you are doing?”

The chanting didn’t work any better for me than it did for the Governator. Maybe he should try a different approach like actually working to get the pumps turned on instead of trying to be on both sides.

We can all expect to be paying more for food which will need to be imported from other countries—more expensive, lower quality.

Emergency rations were brought in this summer to feed the farm workers and their families who have no work because there are no crops. Among the food brought in were several large boxes from China.

A defender of the fish said that farmers will have to start growing crops that didn’t need to be watered every year.

Huh?

Comments

[Khyra]

We were thinking of you during that segment -

I know we've pawed about it before

[paul mitchell]

Crazy people are funny. But, these folks actually think that there is something called a "consumer driven economy." How is their wanting stuff PRODUCING that stuff? Not. Too. Good.

[Dennis the Vizsla]

I gotta get me some of those magic crops that don't need water ...

[threecollie]

My heart goes out to the poor farmers there...and a little more slowly to the people in the parts of the country who aren't paying attention to this, but who WILL be paying for it. It is just stupid to me.....

[BunGirl]

Oh, yeah. Cause there's a great market in growing things like dust, sand, rocks and dirt.

[Jean]

Imported food is barely inspected now. It will get worse if more food is brought in.

[Marion]

Heh. I tried to grow things without much water last summer...it didn't go well. But I guess maybe there is a way I don't know anything about, since far more intelligent beings than I said so.

[jackie]

oh crap..screw the fish..one million stupid little fish is not worth the life of one human...dipshits.
and how long has arnold been here? 40 years? you'd think he'd speak better english by now..

[Jimmy]

Environmentalism......The new Religion?

[cube]

The nutty environmentalists are going to be the death of all of us.

[kasha]

OH my gosh I saw this on the news the other day and I still haven't picked my mouth up from hitting the floor! Can you believe how far people will go? That was actually 3 months ago that I saw this on FOX news. Are you telling me that they still haven't turned the water on in 3 months? Say it isn't so! I live in the desert and I can tell you that not much grows without water! Happy New Years Jan!
Kasha and Africa

[Sling]

I saw much evidence of the water controversy on my trip down through the central valley over Christmas.
Billboards,and such.
Still,people in LA have no problem filling their swimming pools,washing their BMW's,and spraying down their sidewalks.
There's a point in there someplace,but I'm not sure what it is.

[Lindsay]

Haha! You always make me smile.