Yet another scam being perpetrated on the state of California. I am telling you that we have had more rain and snow in the last ten years than I can ever remember. But it could rain from now until dooms day and it still wouldn’t be enough. What people out here in California don’t seem to want to realize is that there are several reasons for the State officials to keep us in a perpetual state of drought.

One of the biggest is greed. That’s right. Money. You see what a lot of people don’t know about California, is that California produces nearly fifty percent of the produce used in the United States. So high water rates make the state more money. These costs are simply passed onto the consumer. The little guy once again takes it in the seat.

The State of California Environmental Protection Agency is run by a bunch of aging hippies that loathe any form of honest management of natural resources. They refuse to let any form of electrical generation to be built in the state. They view electricity as corporate greed, not a necessity. On the other hand, they let local governments permit home building because of the enormous source of revenue property taxes and the people that dwell in those homes as necessary evils and the cost of doing business. This has created a situation where there are too many homes, too many people and not enough water to go around. Again the little guy takes it in the seat.

Yet another reason for keeping California in a state of perpetual drought is control. Now they have even more control over the average Californian’s behavior. I am telling you that until you come to California, you have no idea what control is. I go to Las Vegas where people are still able to fart and not have the state EPA following you around with some sort of metering device.

Let me just review some of the inordinate ways the State of California keeps the big foot of government stepping on the little guy. Freeway metering programs. This is where California pays really fat lazy people to set up trucks along side of freeways on the on ramps and meter the output of your automobile engine, take pictures of your license plate and require you to speend vast sums of money to make your car cleaner.

The famous “tiered electrical system.” Never heard of it? You will. Trust me this is coming to a neighborhood near you soon. It’s a huge money maker disguised as a “comprehensive energy management and conservation program.” It’s nothing more than a scam to make California’s electricity the most costly in the country if not the world. See, they create what is called a “baseline” of power consumption per month. If you go over this baseline twice over, your power rate doubles. Thrice over, it TRIPLES!! And so on. What they don’t tell you is the baseline is just enough to run your refrigerator for a month. It’s true.

Car pool lanes. I know this is a federally mandated program, but the State of California is putting it in on all state owned highways too. Interstate 60 in and out of Los Angeles was one of the last highways in the greater Los Angeles area that did not have a diamond lane. Because of the lack of a diamond lane or HOV lane for you easterners, traffic was almost non-existent on this highway. Travel time into and out of Los Angeles by 40 percent. This is yet another way to tell people how to behave. Why should I be forced to ride in my car with anyone?

Smokers? I’m not a smoker but Last time I checked smokers are Americans too. And as Americans they are entitled to the same rights as all other Americans. I have been in public places like parks and outdoor stadiums where these anti smoking Nazi’s will see someone smoking three hundred yards away from anyone, but they still feel the need to walk over there and talk shit to the smoker. The Irony is this. That’s probably the most exercize the smoke Nazi has had in years, Then they go sit their fat asses down and proceed to eat 11 hot dogs, nachos and wash it all down with a keg of beer. Little known statistic : For every one person in a hospital for smoking related illness, there are 9 people for obesity related illness. So which group is a bigger burden on society? JD