by KaiserJeep » Mon 20 Feb 2017, 10:36:27
It's incredible. The news is all about the dam and the storm. There is NOTHING being reported about the fact that Dimmycrat Moonbeam buried the 2013 report on spillway cracks in the dam.
He's going to get away with it. As flagrant a case of incompetence as I have ever seen in government. Compare this to the explosion of space shuttle Challenger, where NASA made a mistake that cost seven lives. Moonbeam made a similar kind of "those o-rings are just fine" mistake that could have cost 200,000 lives in the worst case, and we have already spent more than 3X the original estimated cost of spillway repairs on the emergency repairs, the evacuation, and the resettlement of the evacuees. My guess is that if Moonbeam orders another evacuation, he will be praised by the media.
Whereas if the party responsible for this near disaster had been a Republican, he'd have had a "perp walk" on TV, he'd have been interviewed as he made bail, and a special commission would be posturing for effect in front of the cameras. But you see, we only have a scant few Republicans in California in our State Assembly, and every appointed position is filled with Dimmycrats.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, with the way money is being poured into shoring up the dam, and all the attention being paid to water levels behind the dam, there probably won't be a disastrous problem in Oroville now. But those emergency funds and other resources were stripped away from shoring up levees and preventing/repairing sinkholes and mud slides, etc. etc.
My guess is that the media will give Moonbeam a pass on anything else caused by his diversion of funds to Oroville. I don't know that there will be any such disasters, but if so I have a pretty good idea who to blame. I'm also anticipating that when the rains end, the reservoir behind the Oroville dam, the second largest source of water in this state, will only be partially full, and that as the snow runoff comes down from the mountains, most such water will flow to the sea rather than be impounded. Which means that California's Central Valley farms will once again be rationing water, after one of the wettest years ever, and the price of our produce and wines will be higher than it should be and the harvest much reduced. Maybe you will grumble about the prices at your local supermarket, but it will never occur to you that California's Governor Moonbeam caused your grief, will it?
Our State and Federal governments just do not work as they should when the media are all collectively pumping up one major political party and urinating on the other. I remember when journalistic standards existed, and one could not even tell which political party a newspaper or TV news service supported, outside of the editorials.
Sadly, we no longer have effective media today.
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