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To: tejek who wrote (849262)	4/11/2015 1:56:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574772

It is noted that you provided not one word to support your position. Whatever the hell it is.

To: tejek who wrote (849262)	4/11/2015 2:14:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574772

Didn't the government build a whole bunch of dams to make all that development possible? Of course it did. The things you're damning now are the fruits of big government infrastructure projects of previous generations ... remember Maddow standing in front of Hoover Dam, which makes the Las Vegas you dislike possible? Yet you want more big government funded infrastructure projects. Most large reservoirs in California are owned by the federal Bureau of Reclamation and to a lesser extent the Army Corps of Engineers, many serving the Central Valley Project or State Water Project. Smaller ones are often run by county water agencies or irrigation and flood control districts.The state has more than one thousand major reservoirs, ...... en.wikipedia.org srpnet.com Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in_Nevada BTW: the nation deciding CA was the promised land and exploiting its land. I grew up in America and I never heard of anyone saying anything about CA being the promised land. Sounds like something a goofy CA politician name Brown would say.