Posted on 08/21/2019 8:32:44 AM PDT by edwinland
Democrats in New Jersey love to attack President Trump, but they are now begging his Administration to fix Newark’s lead-tainted water that they ignored. Here is another parable of how liberal governance is corroding America’s big cities from the inside out.
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Newark officials last fall handed out filters to residents while still insisting the water is safe. “When you make a statement that the drinking water is not safe, it is yelling fire in a crowded room,” Mayor Ras Baraka explained at a press conference. “In fact, Newark has some of the best drinking water. The problem is that our infrastructure is not safe.” This nuance was lost on residents and scientists.
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Earlier this month the city tested water in three homes with filters, and two showed lead levels four times the federal limit.
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Sen. Cory Booker, Newark’s prior mayor, tweeted that the “water emergency demands our federal government’s immediate attention. Everyone deserves clean, safe water—it’s shameful that our national crisis of lead-contaminated water disproportionately hits poor black and brown communities like my own.”
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You can count on Mr. Booker to turn a Democratic government failure into a racial attack on Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
One of the best lines in WSJ history.
RE: they are now begging his Administration to fix Newark’s lead-tainted water that they ignored
OK riddle me this -— Why can’t the city fix it on its own? And if they can’t, why can’t the STATE help?
Why must Washington DC be involved?
Why is this the Fed Gov’s problem?? The Democrats Created this Tainted Water, let them fix it.
Trump’s response to Newark should be:
You should have voted for Republicans.
Why did Willie Sutton rob banks?—”Because that is where the money is”.
Real taxpayers fled Newark long ago and are in the process of fleeing New Jersey as the baby boomers reach retirement age.
Even the dumbest mark catches on eventually.
ANSWER: Democrats....................
I don’t understand why the Federal government should be responsible for the infrastructure of a city. Fix it your damn self.
From WIKI:
“Sutton’s law”
Main article: Sutton’s law
A famous apocryphal story is that Sutton was asked by reporter Mitch Ohnstad why he robbed banks. According to Ohnstad, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is”. The quote evolved into Sutton’s law, which is often invoked to medical students as a metaphor for emphasizing the most likely diagnosis, rather than wasting time and money investigating every conceivable possibility.
In his autobiography, Sutton denied originating the pithy rejoinder:
The irony of using a bank robber’s maxim as an instrument for teaching medicine is compounded, I will now confess, by the fact that I never said it. The credit belongs to some enterprising reporter who apparently felt a need to fill out his copy. I can’t even remember where I first read it. It just seemed to appear one day, and then it was everywhere.
If anybody had asked me, I’d have probably said it. That’s what almost anybody would say ... it couldn’t be more obvious.
However, he also said:
Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I’d be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that’s all.[1]
The Redlands Daily Facts published the earliest documented example of Sutton’s law on March 15, 1952 in Redlands, California.[10]
A corollary, the “Willie Sutton rule,” used in management accounting, stipulates that activity-based costing (in which activities are prioritized by necessity, and budgeted accordingly) should be applied where the greatest costs occur, because that is where the greatest savings can be found.[11]
I think it all comes down to liability.... If the Feds fix it they are left holding the legal bag... If the city/state fixes it they are open for legal challenges and massive payouts they cant afford. The other thing was they are liberals and want to spend your money to fix their problem... it is their MO
I'm surprised that they're not blaming Newark's lead-infested water on former Governor Chris Christie.
The water's safe, it's the pipes that are toxic.
-PJ
Don't 'cha know Booker was a slave for 400 years? How dare you doubt his pain... His pass entitles him to mess up everything then demand others step in and clean up after him... If YOU object you're A RACIST...
The 'I was a slave for 400 years pity-party pass' also works if you're President.
My message to them:
Years of Democrat rule got your water this bad. Vote in Republicans next and give them some time, and watch your water improve, along with many other things. That’s your real, long-term solution.
The Dems want their base to stay stupid.
Thus, the lead.
It was no accident...............
Sadly, I could not argue against your point, with the amount of evils the D rats endorse.
Sen. Cory Booker, Newark’s prior mayor, tweeted that the “water emergency demands our federal government’s immediate attention.
Just like everyone, including illegal immigrants, deserve free health care, free college tuition etc etc, Just who is going to pay for all this ? Here's the landing page for the Newark City Department of Water and Sewer:
What we do The Department of Water and Sewer Utilities is committed to providing residents and business customers with the highest quality, superior tasting water, in the most efficient and cost-effective manner while meeting and exceeding all state and federal regulations and to ensure the collection and delivery of sewage generated in the city to the designated sewerage treatment facilities and the collection and handling of storm-water and combined sewage to protect the waterways from pollution.
A mere $450 million will fix the problem
They condemn Trump because he’s White, and they can blame him for the pathologies of Newark, which were caused by democrats and only democrats.
Newark, like Baltimore, Detroit, Bridgeport, etc, is that way on purpose. The administrations want the residents to be poor, miserable, and subject to flying bullets. Every election cycle the dems go to the residents and say “White Republicans caused your problems, not you. Vote dem and we’ll save you from those evil racists.
And every year the residents return to their lives of flying bullets, drugs, and despair. Gotta be that way, so the dems can use the residents for money and votes next election time.
If ever the residents were to get jobs and leave the plantation, the dems would lose for sure. So the dems deliberately keep the people down as cash cows for the next election.
Because it’s about making Trump look bad.
A mere $450 mm to fix!!! Times three. See Boston Big Dig. Or CA high speed train in the desert......
NJ passes special bond to pay for the infrastructure fix.
> Newark has some of the best drinking water. The problem is that our infrastructure is not safe.
By that logic, the sewer is full of the best drinking water.
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