Scenes from Surrendered Homes in Central Valley, California

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August, 2011, "Scenes From Surrendered HomesForeclosed Homes in the Central Valley, California."...

The report card for decades of 'caring,' sophisticated, far left profiteers. Lush California farm country is now a dustbowl of jobless immigrants living in squalor:

12/28/10, "Fresno, Zimbabwe," IBD editorial

"Environmentalism: Fresno, Calif., stands as the de facto capital of California's mighty Central Valley, the breadbasket of America. So why is that city preoccupied with

• winning a $1 million prize to stave off hunger?

Local newspapers and Fresno County officials are trying to rally Facebook users to vote for Fresno in a corporate contest sponsored by Wal-Mart for $1 million in charity food donations for the hungry. Fresno, a city of 505,000, has taken the national lead because

• 24.1% of Fresno's families are going hungry....

victim of a famine machine that is entirely man-made, not by red communists this time,

• but by greens.

State and federal officials, driven by the agenda of environmental extremists, have made it extremely difficult for the valley's farms, introducing costly environmental regulations and

• cutting off critical water supplies to save the Delta smelt, a bait fish.
  

• It's all driving the economy to collapse.

In the southwest part of the Central Valley, water allotments as low as 10% of normal have created

• a visible dust bowl.
  

The knock-on effect can be seen in cities like Fresno, where November's unemployment among the packers, cannery workers and professional fields that make agriculture productive

• stands at 16.9%."...

"Congress created Dust Bowl" photo Big Government

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Reference: 10/9/09, "Environmental lawsuits rake in billions for lawyers," by Jake Putnam

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Reference: 9/22/09, "Senate rejects measure to turn California water on," Washington Times, Amanda Carpenter




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