http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170126-California-Drought-Update.pdf
Obama is history, a dark chapter of it. The new President, Donald Trump, will be what we make him to be. As he said in his inaugural address, he is just the agent of the American people. That is the challenge for you– you must not sit back and say, “let’s see what happens;” for if you do that, then the snakes will slither in, as they are already beginning to do.
One snake already in the house is the new Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a long-time partner of– get this– George Soros. Here is the story: “Keep George Soros’ Ally Steven Mnuchin Away from Trump Treasury!” https://larouchepac.com/20170126/keep-george-soros-ally-steven-mnuchin-away-trump-treasury
The only human response to drought is to do what humans alone can do: Prepare for it– build the water infrastructure, as President Kennedy often said, that will be required for the next generation. And since we have built virtually no water infrastructure in California since 1972, not only have we failed two generations, but we have failed ourselves.
President Trump says he wants to build the most modern infrastructure in the world. He has a long way to go to catch up to China, but let us work to ensure he unleashes his stated intent. The Democrats in the Congress have proposed an infrastructure building program too. The problem with both Trump’s plan and that of the Democrats is two-fold: One, so far, they are a slap-dash list of necessary but unfocused projects– there is no over-all mission sense to them; no frontiers to conquer that will lift the entire economy to a new and higher platform of productivity. To do so requires an aggressive manned space program and fusion power, along with President John Kennedy’s plan for building nuclear-powered desalination plants up and down the coast of California.
Second, the level of and how to fund a large infrastructure building program is not only incompetent, but won’t work. What is proposed is discussed in this article: “Three National Infrastructure Bank Plans with Doubtful Financing.” https://larouchepac.com/20170125/three-national-infrastructure-bank-plans-doubtful-financing
I refer readers back to the past week’s issues of this report on “LaRouche’s Four Laws” for a detailed policy of how to not just fund infrastructure, but to ensure that the Wall Street gambling casino is shut down and a Hamiltonian credit system is established to truly make America great again. Those articles can be found at http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org, or https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaDroughtUpdate.
The Trump administration has put forward a list of 50 priority projects, which include two in California. That story is presented in the report below. Trump also killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade treaty, also covered below since some in agriculture in the state favored it.
As for the drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor reports that one-half of the state is now free from drought. The Monitor posted below tells the story. But, the deluge the state has received over the past weeks has led the governor to declare a flood emergency in 50 counties. So, and this has to be a first: The state is simultaneously in both a state of drought emergency and a state of flood emergency. Only Jerry Brown could have done that.
This week’s report concludes with some interesting, and some not so interesting, items on desalination and other atmospheric moisture management developments.
