DWA: "This is somewhat prompted by the ongoing presidential campaign dialogue."

I assume the California State taxpayers, with a chip-in from Washington, financed the California State Water Project? I also assume that at that time the taxpayers were also significant savers.

DWA: "Temporary pain and sacrifice may even handsomely reward the present generations as they get older."

Would M. Ledoubleve (Malthus?) tell us why he pecked the "may even" keys? They sounded to this writer not so much triflingly discordant, but deafeningly open to authentication of either Malthusian rationality or cynical jocularity.