What would you do with $800 million a year?

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"With $800 million, California could rehire 12,000 teachers that were laid off this spring. We could pay for four years of the Healthy Families program, which insures 900,000 children in California. Those state parks that the Governor threatened to close last year? We could run them for 57 years.

Or we could pay for one year of principal and interest on the Water Bond to set the stage for building a peripheral canal through the Delta and to give corporate agribusiness, private water companies and developers more control of our water. All at the expense of Delta family farmers and Delta fisheries.

We're part of a statewide campaign that includes the Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, and many other groups. The No on the Water Bond coalition is working against big money and big power to defeat the Water Bond in November.

Can you join the campaign?
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=5209

By signing up for the coalition's action alert list, you'll learn about ways to get involved, be the first to see the new social media tools and viral videos we'll be producing, and learn more about this disastrous bond. Join the campaign and tell your friends!

Bond supporters are making it sound like a good idea, but don't be deceived: It's a con. Backed by the Governor, developers, and wealthy agribusinesses, the bond would build more dams and allow private interests to control more of our water. Projects in the bond that we support, like conservation, will not be funded for years if ever. We must oppose this bond and work for better water policies that truly benefit the public.

There are a lot of good things that California could do with $800 million a year. Building more dams isn't one of them. Don't be conned by the water bond -- join the coalition's people-powered campaign to defeat the bond!

Thanks for taking action,
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla
Campaign Director
Restore the Delta"

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=5209
 
Signed up. Wasn't able to access my email contacts to forward the message. Maybe you can email me the message so I can just forward it.
 
Done. All of this info is on restorethedelta.org if anyone needs direct access to the info. I just did a "cut & paste" of the email I received from Barbara Barrigan.
 
I would spend most of it on boats, women, and whiskey ....... the rest I would waste.
 
quote:

Originally posted by Padraig

I would spend most of it on boats, women, and whiskey ....... the rest I would waste.






ROFLMAO!

Dammit that's funny! You owe me a keyboard!
 
quote:

Originally posted by KiDa

quote:

Originally posted by Padraig

I would spend most of it on boats, women, and whiskey ....... the rest I would waste.






ROFLMAO!

Dammit that's funny! You owe me a keyboard!








The only problem is that this is no laughing matter here in the CA Delta!!! If this thing passes, its implementation will be the demise of the Delta as a living, vibrant ecosystem.
 
OK, I'm new to this and will check out the website... how has Wolk been on the issue?
 
Wonderful!!!! She is often the only one taking a position of support for the Delta's best interests. But she needs lots of help.......

brokenrule2, how great you are willing to become educated to the problems we face in the Delta by the water mongers and politicians! carry on!
 
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