Editor:

This is important if you like to eat, and care about Americans. The California farmers need our help -- now.

The U.S. government is preventing them, in Central Valley, from watering their crops. Their irrigation water has been shut off, because there might be a few tiny fish, smaller than sardines, in the water. These bureaucrats, who don't have a clue about farming, think these tiny fish are more important than the people who have grown food there for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

The U.S. Congress shut off the water. The "Endangered Species Act" was their excuse. Thus creating a dust bowl like the 1930s. The farmers are being starved out on their own land. It is like when Stalin literally starved millions of farmers to death on their own land in Russia. His government wanted the land. Is that what is happening here?

The California farmers are being forced into going to soup kitchens to eat. Many are bankrupt. Thousands of farm-related workers and businesses are unemployed. Remember, when a farmer or rancher loses his land, it becomes a subdivision. And, more food is imported from foreign countries where rain forests are cleared for farmland, and cancer-causing chemicals are used.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flies over these farmers going from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. all the time. At a cost of $60,000 one way for jet fuel alone (for her taxpayer-paid 727 that she fought for). I don't see her helping.

The Tea Party Patriots are trying to help. They have formed the Farmer Relief & Freedom Relay. They are traveling around the U.S., informing people about the problem, and are trying to raise money to help. They will be at the Senior Center in Sheridan on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. in the dining room.

I am going with a checkbook. I hope other people care enough to come listen to the speakers, and drop off a few bucks, too. And, I hope the local media supports this cause.

Contact your state and congressional politicians about this and tell them we need some common sense here. This is not a Democrat or Republican cause, it is Americans caring about Americans.

Get more info by going to: teapartypatriots.org/FarmReliefFreedomRelay/.

If we don't take care of our own hardworking people who feed us, who will take care of us?

BILL ACKERLEY, Wyarno