| More News from the Sacramento Bee'March for Water' takes a page from Cesar ChavezHow low can you go? It's amazing that these farmers who "care" so much for their workers that they have no provisions for worker health care, no provisions for worker child care, make no effort to establish a legal guest worker program, provide no adequate housing, provide only rudimentary safety devices on equipment, and ask these people to work in many cases under the most brutal conditions, are now so concerned about their 12 weeks of employment as field hands. Our governor who desperately wants a canal for his legacy, and the local businessmen who stand to profit from the sales of necessities to these same people are also "deeply" concerned about the workers, not their own welfare. This unholy coalition has conned these people into, "marching" for water. What is infinitely sad about the situation is that if these farmers extort allocations of water through this sham, many have proven that they will turn around and sell it to a municipality further south, making 3800% profit while leaving their fields dry and the same workers they've rallied to their cause abandoned. Ed.
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