late news from us: In Texas and Oklahoma, Extreme Drought Might Have Political Effects Too

Bleak future for cotton farming.
Due to the crop deficits connected with extreme drought, cotton farmers are filing crop insurance claims - over fifty percent of the items cotton maqui berry farmers invest in insurance coverage is government subsidized. - in a record rate states Bloomberg.

"The amount and harshness of claims within the Texas Panhandle, High Flatlands, moving flatlands and backlands is going to be substantially greater than the past few years,Inch stated Ted Etheredge, leader of Lubbock, Texas-based Armtech Insurance, the 5th-biggest U.S. author of government backed crop-insurance plans.

And, no surprise, because when the Drought Monitor reviews,

...cotton - a crop that generally grows fastest in hot, dry weather - was ranked 60 % poor to inadequate in Texas as well as an astounding 92 percent poor to inadequate in Oklahoma.

Tropical Storm Lee to save the day
Tropical Storm Lee has created within the northern Gulf and shows the possibility to dump 10 or 20 inches of rain along eastern Gulf of Mexico's shoreline. The forecasted intense rains could affect maqui berry farmers of Louisiana, or Mississippi, or Alabama, or from the Florida Panhandle. Regrettably, it is past too far for any single tropical storm in order to save the lost pastures and dead cotton plants of Texas and Oklahoma.

Nevertheless, Lee still could give TV news deck hands a reason to face in rain-whipped shoreline configurations and babble on about how exactly the severe drought might have been been damaged. (Simple to make stuff up, knowing nobody will challenge forthrightness when confronted with bad weather.) It might you need to be a lot of usual broadcast media babble giving Texas Governor Perry, Oklahoma's Senator Inhofe and so on cover to continue using their climate-model disdaining, drowning-government-in-a-bath tub speaking points. (The almighty knows, the Federal Government will not give them a call onto it.)

Act of God, or Guy
Government climate experts are predicting no significant drought relief for Texas and Oklahoma. Why, then, replant the coming year if there's so very little possibility of an effective crop Because, I guess, the Condition of Texas thinks it's the authority to accept individuals crop insurance affiliate payouts, with maqui berry farmers getting taken care of rates from a recognised program. (Rather like Social Security.)

Traditions, however, might not be enough to prevent a Presidential candidate or news anchor from asking 'why US citizens possess the obligation to payout crop loss claims without a penny but ongoing loss forecasted '. Urinating within the wind, and all sorts of that.

Aside: The Texas Tribune reviews that Governor Ron Perry, "...an old West Texas cotton player, received a minimum of $83,000 in federal farm subsidies between 1987 and 1998, throughout time he is at chosen office, based on his tax statements.Inch

The divide
Gin literally way to separate in order to divide. You are able to gin some people a few of the time, although not all of the people constantly. With no tropical storm to lash TV reporters on Texas' Gulf shoreline, political sleight of hands is going to be much harder.

So it is, that Eric Cantor's demand that disaster relief cost increases be offset by budget cuts elsewhere could be relevant to a crop insurance program.

I understand I am fantasizing here, but would not it be provocative to possess a Republican Presidential primary debate moderator request 'may be the drought which has destroyed Texas' farming economy this season an Act of God or could it have been triggered by guy ' Fantasy follow-up question: exactly why is God's wrath centered on the Southern Flatlands

Image credit: US Drought Monitor