The oil situation in my country is mirrored neatly by the water situation in my town, and the crux of the problem lies with the same people: the Democrats who are in charge.
My town is currently under an extreme water shortage. Residents are not allowed to water their lawns, wash their cars, or even water their vegetable gardens. Luckily, the last hasn't been too terrible, because this was the fourth wettest July on record, and June was also considerably wetter than normal. The rain has soaked the ground, filling streams nearly to overflowing. Every time it rains, as it's doing today, there are flood watches across the state. Half the time, they turn into flood warnings in one area or another.
Does this sound contradictory? It should. The United States is sitting on a wealth of oil, and my town is sitting on a wealth of water. So why are prices high? Why is my town under water restriction of the highest order?
One of the town wells broke down and has not been repaired. Another one was taken offline, I'm not sure exactly why, leaving only one well to service the entire area. The people voted into charge of my town are overwhelmingly Democrat, as our Congress currently has Democratic control of both houses, and they have not repaired either of the two wells in reserve nor sought to drill a third. We have a reservoir in town, kept off-limits and unused. There was some talk in a town meeting half a year ago of opening the reservoir to supplement the single well, but it has not yet happened.
The local Democrats have, however, secured a multi-million grant from the state in order to vastly reduce the debt we are about to take on in purchasing a large area of recreational forest. It's a very pretty property and, once the lead cleanup finishes and a large-scale poison ivy eradication effort is undertaken, may even be safe to visit.
The Congressional Democrats have turned out the lights on the Republicans, who are even now standing in the dark telling the Democrats and the rest of the country that the working poor need to be able to get to work and keep their houses warm in the upcoming winter.
I think we need some Republicans at my town hall telling the Democrats that their citizens need water.
