Okay, I must admit, i’m rather enjoying all this winning. I can now take a bath in it, literally and figuratively.
Thanks to the stroke of a pen, and the force of the United States military, California’s man-made drought is over. Donald Trump has begun the free flow of water through the spine of the Golden State for the first time in 17 years.
Let me take you back to the early 2000s. California’s Central Valley was the home to around 220,000 acres of farmland. Now that amount of acreage may not mean anything to you, but in terms of food output, the Central Valley was once responsible for a full quarter of the country’s agriculture output, including 40% of the fruits, nuts, and veggies people eat. In 2000 alone, the State’s agricultural crops combined for a staggering $27.2 billion dollars a year in market value. Back then, this state was not just the largest agricultural…
