U.S. plantation-owners receive more than $100 BILLION/year in government subsidies, with California getting the single-largest chunk of those hand-outs. However, what is even more outrageous with respect to California are the obscene water subsidies these corporate free-loaders receive.

Even just accounting for population-growth, water subsidies to California plantation-owners are completely unsustainable over the long-term. However, thanks to the same climate changes which the U.S. pretended did not exist, California is already facing a water crisis. Water allocation to California's agricultural industry is being reduced today not as a result of sensible, long-term planning – but because there isn't enough water to sustain these insane policies right now.

At a time when a number of commentators are suggesting that future wars will be fought over water-resources, how idiotic is it to structure an economy in order to deliberately produce a water-crisis?!?

Moving beyond the direct subsidies, I understand there are a couple of people in California who are upset about the problem of “illegal aliens” - and how they are “draining” California's economy. Guess who most of these “illegal aliens” work for?

I'll deal with that issue in a follow-up commentary.

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