Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Whiskey Is For Drinking, Water Is For Fighting



Old Colorado saying.

On the Colorado Ballot this election is Proposition DD, a scheme to legalize sports betting with large taxes going to “Water Projects”.

Discussing this with Sisty (whose opinions I value, not that I agree with her) she brought up GODDAMNDENVERWATERBOARD as spoken on Colorado’s Western Slope. They have been stealing water for over a century.

A junior imitator, the City of Thornton, has bought out over the years the water rights of farmers to the Cache La Poudre River. All those farms were allowed to “dry up” and abandoned.

Thornton’s grand scheme has hit a roadblock. They need to complete a pipeline in Larimer County. The county commissioner have said, NO! They may have an option to build in Weld County. I imagine the Weld Commissioners say, “Not only NO, but Hell NO!

The water wars will continue forever as the Front Range population grows. Pass the popcorn!

As to Prop DD, my vote is No. Too vague, and I don’t trust those (P)regressives currently dominating Colorado politics not to pervert and misuse any new laws.

9 comments:

LL said...

The 'politics of water' in the west dates to settlers claiming water rights legally. There's often not enough water. Places such as Phoenix, that sit on a massive deep underground lake, are the exception, not the rule.

Las Vegas, NV, bought up all of the water rights in western Utah, and they're in the process of draining the aquifer to support their insatiable demand. It will ruin western UT, but I don't think that anyone cares.

Fredd said...

Legalizing a vice in order to gain tax revenues has never benefited anyone other than the government, and it impoverishes the lower class (typically the types of folks who engage in vice. (Note: the upper crust engage in vice, too, it's just that their vices are more uppity).

First, Colorado legalized pot in order to monetize this vice in favor of those who collect the revenues from it (the government). As far as anybody can tell, Colorado is not seeing huge benefit from this move. Now they want to legalize sports betting, another vice that is easily corruptible and again, nobody gains except the government and it impoverishes those who can least afford to be impoverished.

Why not just go whole hog: legalize ALL gambling, what they hell. And prostitution, there's BIG money in that, why not legalize that?

Colorado is starting to sound like a hell hole to me. But what do I know?

drjim said...

To start with, my wife and I are voting the straight "NO!" ticket on this ballot.

Every Single Item on this ballot is a a tax grab, per the Governor's liberal leanings and philosophy.

I carefully read (and researched) all the ballot items, and they're ALL vaguely worded with no safeguards or sunsetting.

And Fredd......yes, TPTB in Denver want to turn Colorado into another Liberal Utopia. Those of us who managed to do a CALEXIT are trying to prevent it.

This is too nice a place to let "Those People" ruin it.....

Fredd said...

Doc: California was a damn nice place, SUPER nice (I used to live there), and yet THOSE PEOPLE wrecked the holy crap out of it. Some say CA is (was) way nicer than CO.

You have to do something about THOSE PEOPLE. They will wreck wherever they are. Kinda like termites. Or the ebola virus.

LL said...

DRJIM, you can always move to Arizona... if you need to flee Colorado and the liberals who are trying to Californicate it. That's not to say that we didn't get the liberal splash over too.

WSF, Both DRJIM and I enjoyed California and would have stayed if it wasn't for the same lunatics that have embedded themselves in Colorado now.

drjim said...

Hate to steal WSF's topic, BUT.....

@LL - Thanks for the invite, but we're staying. I doubt if I have another move left in me. The spindizzy is down and grounded. I'll make my stand here. Maybe I'll do some good, maybe not, but this is my home now, and I'll try and defend it from ALL enemies, foreign and domestic.

@Fredd - Yes, I know Kali was very nice. I lived there from 1982 until 2017 and watched it slide downhill. It got to the point where I was suffocating under all the PC and "diversity" BS.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

LL
CA and Las Vegas salivate over the Colorado River. Poor Mexico gets the silt.

Fredd
Colorado is Californicated past any hope of saving what we had.

drjim
Maybe we can hold the line, maybe.

To All
Wyoming is losing population except in Jackson Hole. People were asked for input. Mine? Jobs. Not everyone is a trust funder.

LSP said...

I'm no expert but water wars can be fierce, pity the farmers that got dried up by Thornton. Here in Texas we seem to rely on aquifers -- I know they replenish but get the feeling we're taking more out than's put in. What happens why they dry out? Apocalypse. But hey, maybe that won't happen. I hope.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

LSP
The aquifers are't being replenished as fast as they are being used, unfortunately. A reckoning is coming!