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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Obama: The Water Drought Hypocrite

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By: Zeke Miller (TIME)   President Barack Obama traveled to California Friday to highlight the state’s drought emergency at two events near Fresno, calling for shared sacrifice to help manage the state’s worst water-shortage in decades. He then spent the rest of the weekend enjoying the hospitality of some of the state’s top water hogs: desert golf courses.
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The 124 golf courses in the Coachella Valley consume roughly 17 percent of all water there, and one quarter of the water pumped out of the region’s at-risk groundwater aquifer,
http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/02/17/president%E2%80%99s-day-obama-plays-water-guzzling-desert-golf-courses-amid-california-drought
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The best quote of Obama’s trip:
"The federal government can't make it rain, but they can make it rain money," says Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. "
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Click for:  Lizzie And Obama The Rainman
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/02/lizzie-and-obama-rainman.html
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