Maybe we can lay poor people down and roll our boats out to deeper water?
The Washington Post did a piece about the wealthy in California and how they are responding to the
terrible drought we are in. Governor Brown has called for austerity measures to take effect and the rich out west are super on board with it all. By on board I mean not on board at all.
Actually, sort of blubbering cry babies about things:
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.
The one thing about narcissists, they really don't care how anybody else feels about anything and therefore can't help but tell you exactly how they feel about things. The reason this is coming up now is that Rancho Santa Fe is going to be forced to ration water. [Cue horror-woman scream]
“It’s no longer a ‘You can only water on these days’ ” situation, said Jessica Parks, spokeswoman for the Santa Fe Irrigation District, which provides water service to Rancho Santa Fe and other parts of San Diego County. “It’s now more of a ‘This is the amount of water you get within this billing period. And if you go over that, there will be high penalties.’ ”
What's important to note here is that the fines are about to become much more real for this community of people who, like their business counterparts, can usually figure in the cost of breaking the law with being a complete self-absorbed asshole.
So far, the community’s 3,100 residents have not felt the wrath of the water police. Authorities have issued only three citations for violations of a first round of rather mild water restrictions announced last fall. In a place where the median income is $189,000, where PGA legend Phil Mickelson once requested a separate water meter for his chipping greens, where financier Ralph Whitworth last month paid the Rolling Stones $2 million to play at a local bar, the fine, at $100, was less than intimidating.
It's tough stuff for the betters of our society. They got rich in order to be able to do things like have private golf courses where they can practice golf
while crying about taxes. Will these rich people ever
get a break?
“If you’re found watering on a day you’re not allowed, you will receive a notice and you will receive a fine,” said Parks.
Fines can up to $1,000 a day. Parks also added if resident do not comply after being fined, the water district can place flow restrictors on meters, which would cut the water supply.
The Santa Fe Irrigation District asked customers to cut back their water use since September.
Unfortunately, they couldn't cut back and now they have to be threatened with quiet time in their rooms.
They're super sad about it guys, it's totally unfair.
“I think we’re being overly penalized, and we’re certainly being overly scrutinized by the world,” said Gay Butler, an interior designer out for a trail ride on her show horse, Bear. She said her water bill averages about $800 a month.
“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?”
It's too bad that the drought and the austerity measures the drought brings only affects the rich in this community. Oh, that's right, it's a drought that is affecting everyone in the state.
Here are some pictures of our drought and see if you think you can fit Phil Mickelson's golf course in there somewhere. But wait,
I hear someone crying with a snot bubble coming out of their nose:
“I call it the war on suburbia,” said Brett Barbre, who lives in the Orange County community of Yorba City, another exceptionally wealthy Zip code.
Barbre sits on the 37-member board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a huge water wholesaler serving 17 million customers. He is fond of referring to his watering hose with Charlton Heston’s famous quote about guns: “They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.”
You, sir, are a moron. Luckily for Brett, he lives around a bunch of morons.
