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I've read a tragic tale about how rich people have to endure brown lawns in California due to some so called drought. The rapture will probably occur before California runs out of water anyway, so I don't know why they're even bothering to conserve water. But if anyone needs to cut back, it's the do-nothing poor people.
Amen! More taxes paid should mean more rights! Rich people already get more speech through advertisements and by paying Mexicans to protest. They already get better legal representation in court by hiring better attorneys. Why shouldn't they get more water than everyone else too? That's how capitalism, God's favorite system of government works.
These people probably make hundreds of times what people in other areas make and yet they're only using 5 times the water. Sounds like they're being very conservative with their water usage to me. Unfortunately god hating, tax hike loving, Gov. Jerry "Moonshine" Brown didn't see it that way and tried to force his big government thuggery onto Rancho Santa Fe. Well, fortunately they wouldn't have any of it and increased their water usage by 9%
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I too, am very angry that Demon-rats are forcing hard working Americans to live around acres and acres of unkept filthy dirt
. I can't imagine how they even fall asleep at night knowing that their lawn is in peril.
That's a pretty compelling argument. I'm sure if they had poor people hogging up space they'd waste the water on stupid stuff like cleaning dishes/laundry/drinking/going to the bathroom etc. By reserving all that space just for her family she is doing a vital service to the community. It's only fair that she be given extra water as a reward.
Tragedy! Millions of dollars lost.
Rich people also need to look for more creative ways to use water, like Republican Tom Selleck who took water from a local Fire Hydrant for his ranch for years
! It's this kind of creative thinking that demonstrates why these people are job creators to begin with.
Can't you tell just by looking at this man that he must have a lot of integrity?
I think it's about time poor people stopped wasting so much water. If drinking out of the toilet is good enough for domesticated house pets I'm sure it's good enough for poor people. I doubt most poor people are taking many baths/showers so they're already fine in this regard. Also, why are we wasting water for fire hydrants in poor areas? I doubt their houses that are burning down are even worth the cost of the water it takes to put the fires out. The firemen should just let the houses burn if it's not in at least a moderately wealthy area.
Drought or no drought, Steve Yuhas resents the idea that it is somehow shameful to be a water hog. If you can pay for it, he argues, you should get your water.
People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”
People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”
Yuhas lives in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, a bucolic Southern California hamlet of ranches, gated communities and country clubs that guzzles five times more water per capita than the statewide average. In April, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called for a 25 percent reduction in water use, consumption in Rancho Santa Fe went up by 9 percent.
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“It angers me because people aren’t looking at the overall picture,” Butler said. “What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”
“I’m a conservative, so this is strange, but I defend Barbra Streisand’s right to have a green lawn,” said Yuhas, who splits his time between Rancho Santa Fe and Los Angeles. “When we bought, we didn’t plan on getting a place that looks like we’re living in an African savanna.”
. I can't imagine how they even fall asleep at night knowing that their lawn is in peril.
Butler said she, too, is replacing grass with drought-friendly native landscaping on her four acres, at a cost of nearly $80,000. (She’ll get a rebate for about $12,000.) But she came to the decision grudgingly, she said. And she defends the amount of water she and her neighbors need for their vast estates.
“You could put 20 houses on my property, and they’d have families of at least four. In my house, there is only two of us,” Butler said. So “they’d be using a hell of a lot more water than we’re using.”
“You could put 20 houses on my property, and they’d have families of at least four. In my house, there is only two of us,” Butler said. So “they’d be using a hell of a lot more water than we’re using.”
Another friend, Woods said, has seen the value of his nine-acre plot plummet from $30 million to $22 million.
Rich people also need to look for more creative ways to use water, like Republican Tom Selleck who took water from a local Fire Hydrant for his ranch for years
! It's this kind of creative thinking that demonstrates why these people are job creators to begin with.
Can't you tell just by looking at this man that he must have a lot of integrity?
I think it's about time poor people stopped wasting so much water. If drinking out of the toilet is good enough for domesticated house pets I'm sure it's good enough for poor people. I doubt most poor people are taking many baths/showers so they're already fine in this regard. Also, why are we wasting water for fire hydrants in poor areas? I doubt their houses that are burning down are even worth the cost of the water it takes to put the fires out. The firemen should just let the houses burn if it's not in at least a moderately wealthy area.
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