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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on January 21, 2016, 10:08:41 PM
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Flint Is Not a Republican Scandal
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430072/flint-lead-water-scandal
What we learned from Hurricane Katrina: No matter what happens, it’s never the governor’s fault. What we’ve learned from the contaminated drinking water in Flint, Mich.: It’s always the governor’s fault.
A bit of background first.
Flint has relatively high levels of lead in its drinking water, a cause for legitimate concern. This is a result not so much of the source of its drinking water, the Flint River, as of the city’s failure to treat the water, which, without the proper additives, leaches lead and other contaminants from pipes.
Prior to and separate from the current water crisis, Flint was in a state of financial ruination. In one of the most liberal cities in the United States, Flint’s Democrat-dominated government did what Democrat-monopoly governments do in practically every city they control: It spent money as quickly as it could while at the same time carpet-bombing the tax base with inept municipal services, onerous regulations, high taxes, and the like. As a result of this, a bankrupt Flint entered into a state of receivership, meaning that an emergency manager — or emergency financial manager, depending upon Michigan’s fluctuating fiscal-emergency law — was appointed by state authorities and given power to supersede local elected officials in some matters, especially financial ones. The contamination happened while Flint was under the authority of an emergency manager who, though a Democrat, had been appointed to the post by Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder. He was, in fact, the most recent in a long line of emergency managers, Flint having failed for years to emerge from its state of fiscal emergency.
Flint water problem is a Democrat issue. It is a Democratic scandal. Flint is a leftist city run by (drum rolls please) Democrats. No surprise there. An economically depressed city like Detroit or Cleveland.
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As I posted in the shout box, the regional EPA director or whatever they're called has resigned.
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As I posted in the shout box, the regional EPA director or whatever they're called has resigned.
Most probably an unqualified incompetent like the rest of the owebuma administration.
It's really sad that real hard working tax paying Americans have to be hurt real bad before enough negative press brings such dismissals to light.