Posted on 03/19/2017 2:27:41 PM PDT by davikkm
The Environmental Protection Agency awarded Michigan $100 million in grant money to replace the Flint water system’s damaged infrastructure. The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act of 2016 provided the funding for this grant that would help Flint replace its lead water pipes that have fallen into disrepair, the EPA said in a statement.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said this grant is part of the Trump administration’s goal to improve the country’s water infrastructure.
“EPA will especially focus on helping Michigan improve Flint’s water infrastructure as part of our larger goal of improving America’s water infrastructure,” Pruitt said.
Michigan Republicans and Democrats praised the EPA’s decision to fund efforts to repair Flint’s water system.
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Proof that corruption and greed fuels Flint’s economy will be ignored.
I’d just love to see a line by line audit of where the money went when it’s finished!
Because we here in Michigan also contribute to the coffers of your federal govt.
I'm sure there's a lot of govt. funds channeled to your region that I could take issue with................
Yes it should be the duty of the city to maintain their own water, but right now, in order to fix the rust belt, I think we will just have to make some investments to help it turn around. At least this is fixing a concrete, specific problem, not redistributing the world's wealth in order to theoretically stop the Earth from warming one degree.
One thing the Trump administration will have to deal with in order to revitalize manufacturing in rust belt cities is the legacy of pollution. Many old factories are polluted, and called "Brownfield" properties. Due to environmental regulations, and new owner must clean up the pollution before they can use the property, which makes the properties less valuable than buying a property never before used as a factory outside of town and putting a new factory on it. As a result the cities have hollowed out industrial cores. If the president and these cities want to have an industrial renaissance, Brownfield regulations need to be addressed to make old industrial property attractive to new industrial users.
You are correct! The solution is not to continue it, but to END it, yes?
Feds help finance a lot of the water problems in the US. This is all part of the infrastructure jobs. Lots of construction jobs and if there is decent water Flint might even get a manufacturing company to invest and bring American jobs back.
Think of it as an investment
Correct, its a state's issue. And why just Flint, many municipalities across the US have lead pipe issues.
I wonder how much of that $100 million will disappear into the Flint city pension system?
You can think of it as investment. As a conservative I KNOW that it is wasteful, immoral welfare.
The reasons to let flint take care of flint would fill volumes. The reasons to tax you to save flint are immoral, liberal in nature, and very few.
After paying off the unions and all the elected officials, that will be about twelve dollars to fix the problem.
So true, so very true.
It’s to keep Michigan in the (R) column in 2020.
Trump promised to help upgrade infrastructure folks.
This is what that looks like. If Trump did this for 1000 cities nationwide, it would amount to $128 billion. Sounds like a lot of money. Right now, each year, we are spending $500 billion on welfare.
It’s not that much money, and it will be spent over a number of years.
We’re going to be upgrading highways, bridges, dams, and other things. It had to happen sooner or later.
Folks, states send money to Washington. Some of that money is expected to come back in various forms. Some states like California will pay in more taxes than they get back. That helps out smaller states with roads and other needs.
We are taxed at the same rate, but some states have a much smaller tax base. They do need roads, and when we’re traveling across country we use them. We’re glad they are then when we want to travel.
I am not a big fan of massive spending, but at some point we knew this was going to have to be done. It’s adult like to face it and get it done.
This is ridiculous. There are many places with much more need. This whole thing was just a Rat set up to get MI GOP Governor. The “crisis” was caused by the Rats that run Flint. Obongo came to Mi to exploit it. He met the Flint mayor but not the Governor of the state. This wil create 0 good will for Trump.
Sorry, we elected President Trump because of jobs, jobs, jobs. The plan is $1trillion in infrastructure and this is just a very small part of it.
It is true that money must be spent. Bit it is not divine, inevitable, moral, legal, imperative, necessary, wise just, or good that it must be spent in this ridiculous way. As conservatives we MUST not ever stop pointing this out. When we stop, we quit, and we are then liberals.
Sorry, wasting money does not create jobs, except in the minds of Bernie sanders types.
I don’t expect this to be the model for how we’re going to fix every city’s needs. In some instances it will look like this, and in other instances it will look a lot more like a block grant to assist.
We’re not talking about a yearly budgeted item to last from here until eternity. Our infrastructure needs to be upgraded, and it has to be done.
I don’t think it makes us a Leftist to recognize that some cities that have taken it in the shorts due to economic decline are going to need more help than others. Even if that city’s management contributed to the problem, you can’t just condemn the citizens of that city to live with the health problems or crumbling infrastructure.
We’ve seen what moving jobs overseas has done to our nation, and at some point we were going to have to come to terms with what having 50 to 90 million people out of work would result in.
We have a severely damaged tax base. Some cities aren’t real healthy right now. This is why Trump is trying to bring jobs back to the U. S.
What’s the solution, go another few decades without addressing our infrastructure?
It wasn’t the EPA it was Trump.
The EPA caused and covered up this atrocity.
The EPA needs to go away.
Not a waste of money. You are perfectly welcome to think what you want, but you are going to be a very unhappy person for the next 8 years.
There is going to be a lot of investment in infrastructure that will facilitate a lot of manufacturing jobs moving into that area.
I had the same question did you ever find the guy that the poison the water? I thought a different water source from Detroit solved the problem so why does Flint need 100 million? Is this welfare by another name. The
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