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Nihil

(13,508 posts)
1. They're sneaking this one under the fence aren't they?
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 04:57 AM
Jan 2012

> A one-sentence provision inserted in the 2012 budget bill by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein
> will allow a handful of powerful San Joaquin Valley water oligarchs to sell federally subsidized
> agricultural water in a private market for as much as 150 times more than what they pay for it.

Totally criminal behaviour (and I don't care which nominal party she belongs to).

If there is no outcry (up to tar & feathers level) on this then there is truly no hope for the people there.

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