GREEN BOONDOGGLE! TAXPAYERS ON THE HOOK FOR COUNTRY CLUB'S 'RECYCLED WATER' PIPEDREAM

While you're likely still scraping by to afford the inflated price of gas and groceries thanks to the 'enlightened' policies of Sacramento and their local acolytes, our esteemed Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, masquerading as the Laguna County Sanitation District, has been busy. They've just rubber-stamped a whopping $1.2 million payment to Joseph Construction and Consulting for a 'recycled water' pipeline project – right to the Santa Maria Country Club. Because nothing says fiscal responsibility and environmental stewardship like diverting public funds to keep putting greens pristine.

Yes, for those of you keeping score, that's nearly one-and-a-quarter million dollars of your hard-earned money to deliver *recycled water* to a private golf course. The agenda item, like all good government documents, was a masterpiece of bureaucratic obfuscation, claiming this fiscally questionable largesse is 'not a project subject to environmental review' because it's merely an 'administrative activity of government.' Right. Because paying a contractor seven figures for infrastructure that exclusively benefits a private club is just 'administrating,' not, say, a quiet gift from the public purse.

Our progressive overlords at the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors seem to have a peculiar definition of 'public good.' While residents face ever-increasing taxes and regulations, a cool million-plus is no sweat off their backs when it comes to subsidizing the leisure activities of the well-heeled. And who needs pesky environmental reviews when the cause is so noble – enabling the verdant vistas of the privileged? It’s almost as if the 'green' agenda here is less about the planet and more about ensuring certain politically connected businesses get their slice of the taxpayer pie. Just another day in the progressive paradise they're building, one dollar of your money at a time, for someone else's benefit.