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Posted on 02/01/2016 1:02:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan tells Yahoo News that she believes race was a factor in the state's slow response to the Flint water crisis.
"The sad, outrageous reality is that people were not paying attention to what the residents were saying because they weren't a priority," Stabenow told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga.
"[The state] would react differently when their friends that lived in those areas called ... that's just a fact that [Flint was] treated differently than others would be treated." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Hey, calling everyone a racist worked in New Orleans, why not give a shot in Flint?
Yes, it is quite possible that race is a factor. But it is a factor in the elected leadership of Flint and Detroit. Black Democrats have run those places for years - right into the ground.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/
The Clean Water Restoration Act
Under the new guidelines, if you use well water, the EPA has jurisdiction over your property and can even forcibly evict you and your family. If it rained overnight, or you have runoff from a recent snowfall, and there is any resulting puddles on your property, this can result in the loss of the free use of your property. You are also subject to eviction from your land if your property resides above an underground water aquifer.
In reality, this law has nothing to with preserving water and is simply a thinly veiled excuse to separate as many Americans from their land as possible. This strategy is straight out of the Agenda 21 playbook and it is being used to attack private property rights throughout the West. This strategy dovetails nicely with something I recently wrote about with regard to the fact that many state governments in the West are prohibiting the trapping and use of rainwater and the reuse of farm irrigation water. The last thing the Federal government wants is to allow Americans the right to fully control their property and to experience any kind of water independence.
The underlying intent of these policies is to attack America by lashing out at the food producers of America. The Wetlands legislation is being used to force the food producers of this country off of their land as the EPA begins to assess farmers $37,500 dollar, per day, fines for having any kind of standing water on their properties. The EPA is all to happy to provide relief for farmers and ranchers and acquire their land to help these victims of federal tyranny to get out from underneath their fines.
Most rural communities understand what is happening to them, but these events are receiving almost no attention except for the exceptional news blurb. The most dramatic reporting on this event occurred in the past week on FOX News in which Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on FOX and recounted many of the claims which I have identified here.
A number of other water issues have been the subject of recent Congressional oversight and subsequent legislation. Some legislators have been highly critical of recent regulatory initiatives which have abused the personal property rights of individual farmers, ranchers and homeowners. As of this date, despite some scant interest in EPA abuses, Congress has failed to act against the EPA for Fifth Amendment violations of property rights.
BS
They are using the situation in Flint to gin up a national campaign against Republican budget austerity. Because it kills black children, etc.
Isn’t it interesting that race only seems to be the cause of these problems in areas where democrats have had total control for decades?
First, what crisis? Barely measurable lead levels? To put that in perspective, the levels that people are utterly concerned about are 15 parts per billion. To put that into perspective, if you were to take a large stadium like the Rose Bowl as the billion, it would be one small half inch ice cube.
So what you have is a manufactured crisis because Detroit lost tax income they were leaching from Flint (because nothing suckerpunches another liberal like a liberal city.)
Next, to most elected leaders, what the heck is the problem? They don’t use tap water for pretty much any human consumption - they make the people buy them bottled water. Doesn’t everyone have bottled water?
They couldn’t imagine people actually drinking tap water like, you know, pets.
Race, of course, had nothing to do with it, but hey, that race card hasn’t been maxed out yet, right?
Race may have been a factor. No-one wanted to crush a liberal mayor’s plans in a majority-minority city. It’s too politically incorrect to over-ride someone like that.
You hit the nail on the head. Flint used to have great leadership, and yes they were all Republicans.
Race was a factor; imagine how much slower the response would have been in a white area governed by blacks!
I’ve been to Flint. I doesn’t only have black citizens.
It took her months of silence to come up with something this stupid?
Stabenow is a dope. The only reason she got to be senator is from the illiterate dopes in Flint and Detroit. She is pandering.
“Hey, calling everyone a racist worked in New Orleans, why not give a shot in Flint?”
Yeah, but you will note that “Mr. Chocolate City” Ray Nagin is in the slammer, so if we are going to draw parallels, Stabenow (the dumbest white woman in the Congress) may be headed there as well. Or at least we should hope so.
You’re the first one I’ve seen with PPB. thanks
Check this out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Washington,_D.C._drinking_water
Apparently the crisis extends to Washington DC where thousands of home exceed the EPA 15ppb threshold.
MAKE THE politicians DRINK FLINT WATER....
THE PROBLEM WILL BE RESOLVED IN A WEEK
That's been known for years, at least since the 1980s. Lots of older cities that were among the first to install water systems used lead in mains that there's either never a good time to replace, or they cry poor, wanting OPM to pay for the replacement.
You'd think that when the subway was built in DC (1970s)...yeah, right.
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