Posted on 08/19/2020 11:01:49 PM PDT by knighthawk
The state of Michigan has settled with victims of the Flint water crisis for more than $500 million, and details of the settlement are expected Friday, the Detroit News reports.
Ryan Jarvi, a spokesman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, would not confirm the settlement Wednesday night and said that the parties involved aren’t authorized to speak publicly yet.
“The Attorney General’s and Governor’s teams have been engaged in an ongoing collaborative mediation effort in the Flint Water Cases for more than 18 months,” Jarvi told Fox News in a statement. “We and the other parties are bound by a federal court order to maintain the confidentiality of detailed settlement and mediation communications until we reach a certain point. We have not yet reached the point where we can discuss a potential settlement.”
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I grew up in Flint, do i get a cut? Oh wait I’m not amish.
Are you a "Flint water crisis victim," as per the headline?
If not, then: No.
Regards,
And that’ll get paid with the state’s pension plan?
Thsnk you.
Yay! More lawyers get to retire, the victims get to suffer the negative health effects for the rest of their lives and the politicians that created this living hell for their taxpaying constituents get off scott free. All is well with the world.
Horsefeathers. I was born in 1950, when we still used lead as a fuel additive. Virtually everyone my age had higher blood lead levels than the highest 10% of Flint residents at the same age. This was media driven hysteria, casting the poor Amish as victims of heartless Republicans.
In order to save money, the city of Flint changed water supply sources. The new water met all standards for potability and safety. The new supply was slightly more acidic than the previous. In older houses standing water would leach lead out of the plumbing in the houses. The residents of older housing in Flint (unlike Concord, Massachusetts) were predominately Amish.
Most people do not drink tap water these days, but even those who do could avoid any problems by letting the water run for a minute before drawing a glass to drink. So this is a $500 million settlement of a non-problem (the levels were never particularly dangerous) paid by taxpayers to a favored "victim" group by a Democratic administration.
This is farce.
farce cooked up by bureaucrats and lawyers...
Could have built a pretty nice water system for that money.
lawyers will take half and the remaining $1000 checks will be spent on Nike.
Once lived in Davison and feel very sorry for the people of Flint who actually drank this water as they are never gonna see a cut of this money. It is all going to be siphoned off by activist groups in their name.
Attention: Black Americans, what do you think would happen to your reparations?
So they each get 10 dollars right?
Why is this on the taxpayers in Michigan? Shouldn’t the politicians that f’ed this up be the ones on the hook, personally?
If it is on the taxpayers, the politicians should make it a cool billion, it isn’t their money.
Thanks for the additional information!
Yes, i think we spoke once, i grew up on the west side of Flint, about a half mile west of I 75 right on M 21. We were next door to the old Woods farm. All the orchard was still there, rhubarb, strawberrys, raspberrys, apples, pears, plums you could eat, free. Ringneck pheasants grew in abundance in the fields out back. Urban sprawl wipped it all out. We had a very deep well of very hard water lots of minerals and iron. You could run a bath water and watch the rust ring form in the tub. Nothing like a tall cold drink of that on a hot summers day.
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