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Originally Posted by Trent Harvey, Jr.
bad lawn maintenance is a serious crime where everyone is the victim.
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It's even worse when it's
forced by government, in the form of water rationing, on the pretext of some so-called "drought":
People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”
Yuhas lives in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, a bucolic Southern California hamlet of ranches, gated communities and country clubs that guzzles five times more water per capita than the statewide average. In April, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called for a 25 percent reduction in water use, consumption in Rancho Santa Fe went up by 9 percent...
“[Water rationing] angers me because people aren’t looking at the overall picture...What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”
Just look at this poor, down-trodden soul:
It reminds me of this pic of the soul survivor of the British campaign in Afghanistan, though it looks like even the Victorian-era afghans were free to water their lawns, judging by the relatively lush curbside in the background:
“I call it the war on suburbia,” said Brett Barbre, who lives in the Orange County community of Yorba City, another exceptionally wealthy Zip code.
Barbre sits on the 37-member board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a huge water wholesaler serving 17 million customers. He is fond of referring to his watering hose with Charlton Heston’s famous quote about guns: “They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.”
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“California used to be the land of opportunity and freedom,” Barbre said...
“When we bought, we didn’t plan on getting a place that looks like we’re living in an African savanna.”