re: #263 Mich-again

There is plenty of clean fresh water in the Midwest. Even the ancient people on Earth knew they had to live near water. How nuts is it to move to the desert and then bitch that there isn’t any water there.

The looming water crisis in the SW reminds me a bit of the old Sam Kinnison routine about bringing food to starving people in Ethiopia. ( Granted, it was in poor taste and I was never a big fan of that loon)

You know, we’ve been bringing you food out here to the middle of the desert every day and it occurred to us that you people need to GO WHERE THE FOOD IS!

Real estate is cheap here now and there is plenty of water and fertile land. But yet so many people who live in unhospitable areas scoff at the “rust belt”. We’ll see in the coming decades I guess.

The Southwest can kiss my ass. Has anyone here ever flown into Phoenix? after passing over thousands of square miles of sparse sagebrush, almost uniformly tan, you know you’re over the city because your eyes are assaulted by enormous, garish strips of green and blue. Golf courses. Swimming pools. Abundantly watered lawns. Hundreds of thousands of eastern transplants all striving to recreate the landscape they left behind, where the climate is cooler and gets over 40 inches of rain a year, in a hot, arid climate that gets well under 12 inches.

And they’re making plans to pump water out of the Great Lakes so they can continue this utterly profligate, unsustainable lifestyle.

My ass is ready: two cheeks, no waiting. Pucker up.