yeah , my comment was a little tongueincheek in that regard <| sep |> Thats not entirely true . The Great Depression was a global depression due to the world war , horrendous reparations and a failing gold standard . Since the US was one of the latest to the party they actually made out far better than other countries , recovered far better than most and ultimately led to the US overtaking England as the financial hub of the world . To place the blame on the Fed just fails to understand the global economic climate of the time . <| sep |> So you can ' t flip Elite players with 1 k profits every time . <| sep |> Who follows rules ? <| sep |> If you want to count rainfall as used up water be my guest . I don ' t want to try to change your mind or argue with you about that even though I have a different opinion . The whole point of me joining this discussion was that I believe it is disingenuous to count rainfall because it gives the impression that something is lost or used up when it really isn ' t . I ' ll leave out the details of why I think that way because I ' ve already stated them elsewhere and you already have disagreed with me , and that ' s all grand . When I pointed this out to OP , his response was that the water he had claimed was used up wasn ' t rainfall , it was water from the mains . He apparently isn ' t even aware that most farms have their own wells or group water schemes and aren ' t on the mains supply . And aside from that little bit of cluelessness , he was completely wrong about the whole irrigating grasslands and crops thing . Just one more minor thing , when a wet motorway dries out , where does the water go ? P