Ed Morrisey notes the shocking news about Fresno, California – a city of half a million set smack dab in the center of what is perhaps the richest agricultural land in the world:
…Monica Showalter reports that the region that once fed the world now faces widespread hunger as a result:
Local newspapers and Fresno County officials are trying to rally Facebook users to vote for Fresno in a corporate contest sponsored by Wal-Mart for $1 million in charity food donations for the hungry. Fresno, a city of 505,000, has taken the national lead because 24.1% of Fresno’s families are going hungry…
It simply isn’t possible that the people of Fresno can go hungry – in any normal world, such a city might suffer any manner of disaster, but never hunger. So, why are they hungry? Because the government came along to help.
At the behest of city bred, liberal pinheads, water was cut off in the Central Valley in order to save a fricking guppy. They call it a “Delta Smelt” because they know that if they called it what it is – a bait fish; a guppy – they’d have been tarred and feathered. People are going hungry so that a perfectly worthless fish can have a bit more water (worthless? Yes, because we’ll never run out of them – its a guppy, darn it. As I said, they’ve given it a special name because they know they can’t justify doing what they are doing unless they lie about it…so, a guppy has been selected, called a separate species, declared endangered and there we go…).
This is what government does – though, more than that, this is what happens when liberals run government. Why are we not making, mining and growing things? Because of host of people who don’t make, mine or grow anything have decided that they know what is best for everyone – sitting in Los Angeles and San Francisco, clueless about how the very food on their table gets there, they have passed judgment and decided that a fish (which 99.9% of them probably couldn’t describe if you pointed a gun at their head) must take precedence over human beings…and its all ok because they don’t live near those redneck hicks who have lost everything thanks to liberal government.
This just burns me up – and it has to be changed. The people who do the useful work of America must be given precedence over those who don’t…and even more precedence over the alleged environmental needs of some dratted fish. We’re killing ourselves at the command of people who don’t do useful work, have vast amounts of time to spare and feel themselves superior to everyone. Time to put a stop to this nonsense.
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