Carly Fiorina: Environmentalists to blame for 'man-made' drought in California

[LiberalElite]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/carly-fiorina-california-drought_n_7014468.html


(Sorry, I can't do cut & paste with this for some reason.)

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. This idiot can't be that stupid? Or can she? Givin stupid idiots a bad name!

[treestar]

14. Appears she does believe that more reservoirs means more water

"There's nothing magical in and of themselves to build a (reservoir) facility," Lester Snow, the executive director of the California Water Foundation, told the Bee last year. "If we had two more surface storage facilities that we built 10 years ago -- pick any of the two that people are talking about -- they would both be very low right now. There's a tendency to pull down our surface storage when we get mildly short of water."

If you build a reservoir, the water will come!

[BillZBubb]

2. The republican party is like a pecan grove.

It's full on nuts. To think, some people actually thought it was a good idea to put this dimwit in charge of a technology company.

[hifiguy]

12. Like giving a monkey the keys to a banana plantation,

to quote the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett.

[Gothmog]

3. Fiorina is the new Palin

[marym625]

4. Hope this helps

Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on Monday blamed environmentalists for what she called a "man-made" drought in California, which has led to the state's first water restrictions.

“With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided,” Fiorina, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck. “Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.”

[LiberalElite]

6. How'd you do that ? -

I can never cut & paste from HP.

[marym625]

7. Same way I do with everything else

I have never had a problem. Wish I could tell you some secret but I don't have one. Sorry

[Brother Buzz]

5. .

Carly Fiorina: Environmentalists To Blame For 'Man-Made' Drought In California
4/6/15

WASHINGTON -- Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on Monday blamed environmentalists for what she called a "man-made" drought in California, which has led to the state's first water restrictions.

“With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided,” Fiorina, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck. “Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.”

The drought, now officially in its fourth year, prompted Gov. Jerry Brown (D) last week to order a 25 percent reduction in water consumption. The order does not apply to the agriculture industry, which consumes nearly 80 percent of the state's water.

...There's nothing magical in and of themselves to build a (reservoir) facility," Lester Snow, the executive director of the California Water Foundation, told the Bee last year. "If we had two more surface storage facilities that we built 10 years ago -- pick any of the two that people are talking about -- they would both be very low right now. There's a tendency to pull down our surface storage when we get mildly short of water."

..."For a science denier to opine that Democrats caused the drought in California is about as irrational as believing someone who failed at running a business in California and then failed as a candidate for office in California has any cause to be running for the highest office in the land," Bobby Whithorne, the group's spokesman, said in a statement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/carly-fiorina-california-drought_n_7014468.html

[npk]

8. Classic case of stupid.

Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.”

Gee sacrificing others peoples lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. Hmm interesting. Kinda like denying a woman her right to an abortion, or trying to stop gay marriage or insisting that people be allowed to discriminate based on their religion. Where have we seen this.

[yeoman6987]

9. I'd like someone to ask her to to prove

Those two water projects would have solved the water problems.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Because everyone knows that when you're broke. The way to get

out of that financial hole is to open more bank accounts.

[treestar]

16. good analogy

yeah, the money will just appear in those new accounts!

[hifiguy]

11. Put the twenty smartest scientists in the world

in a lab and give them unlimited time and funding. Even then, they could not come up with this kind of 100% pure stupidium. Jebus wept.

[treestar]

13. This is a right wing method

When you point out that the Depression occurred, so capitalism unregulated is not always good, they blame the previous government regulations.

Unregulated capitalism will lead to preservation of the environment because it is in the best interests of the capitalist to have a clean environment. The only reason the environment is a mess is because of the previous government regulations. I think they may actually have themselves convinced.

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. Those darned environmentalists! They made it quit raining.

[LittleBlue]

17. She isn't making any sense

“Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

A millennium ago, there weren't 40m people living there and a huge ag industry.

Then she randomly blames this on environmentalists like they caused the drought.

Fiorina, California's 2010 GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said it was a "classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.”

She doesn't attempt to even support this. Just throws it out there.