Michigan legislative action thread
What is dangerously high? a few parts per billion? Throw a ton of money at it right away.
Didn’t the BLACK MAYOR of Flint “let them down”? It was she and her majority-minority council which switched water supplies to save money.
Ugh. No. Another Republican who doesn’t understand how the Dems and their press goons play the game. They are going to beat him over the head with this now and the EPA will be off the hook.
The EPA sat on this for months
What is the contamination level?
One of the last ‘gifts’ Slick left for Dubya was a change in the acceptable levels of some contaminations from PPM to PPB.
The stupid party strikes again. The Democrats are running to town on this one. Since it involves a city with a significant black population you can guess the racism angle is being hammered home big time.
Interesting reporting on Flint water
http://www.infowars.com/plan-to-protect-flints-water-discovered/
Tell him to try the patented “Rahm Emanuel crying” bit.
...but from everything I've heard this could have been completely avoided if...
A. Detroit water(with it's own "questionable" issues during the Kwame era)wasn't gouging(particularly the 'burbs)with rate increase after rate increase to make-up for it's own shortfalls(perhaps corruption), but also including many in Detroit who simply felt they didn't need to pay their own water bills...the resulting increases pushed(particularly bankrupt cities like Flint)to look at alternatives, thus the Karegnondi Water Authority(new water source)was born.
(more importantly)
B. Detroit water could have offered a short term extension of Detroit water(after the previous 50 year contract expired)until the new line was ready for use. I understand there were negotiations for such, what issues prevented all sides from coming to an agreement for the best interest of the residents of Flint?(my guess....Detroit wanted extra $$$ Flint didn't have)
From what I understand the Detroit water dept. was angry that Flint(others)decided to go with the new water source(as opposed to signing a new 50 year deal), as they felt(rightfully so)it would compete with their own, and as such, lose needed revenues for it's own financial security/issues.
I'm about 30 miles from Flint. Couple of years ago our City manager had the option to pipe into the new water source(suppose to be completed June of this year), but with the added cost of infrastructure(connection/treatment) decided...better to just sign a new 50 year agreement with Detroit.
I don't claim to know the facts of this fiasco, but the media and their friends in the 'rat party see an opening to smear the Rep.'s with it not only locally but nationally(yes, it's a failure of Gov.....but only when it's REPUBLICAN controlled gov.).
I'd just like the facts to lead to...wherever they lead. Couldn't care less about political affiliation. Somebody has to be held accountable as the lawyers are I'm sure flooding into Flint looking for $$$, and it's going to cost perhaps hundreds of millions in lawsuits and infrastructure repair after all is said and done.
Aging infrastructure(and how to pay for repairs)are going to be YUUUUGE topics in the NEAR future. These kinds of events are just the beginning. Gov. officials/others cannot afford to continue to kick the can down the road, solutions must obviously include reining in wasteful spending at ALL levels, not to mention putting crooks and cronies in jail.
You go cheap, and you don’t have experts and you’re gonna get this every time with a big water supply. Unless you know what you are doing and prepare for it, changing the flow in the pipes will cause all hell to break loose (literally) in an old system. The natural corrosion is laminar to the flow that has been going over the surface for 50 years, it is how it has self-healed naturally ... reverse it and it is like rubbing a bird’s feathers the wrong way, they stick up and they come loose ... (idiots).
But take it a step further and blame it on politics? ... I shake my head in wonder.
Damn idiot ought to apologize for not arresting the commie slut Granholm for stealing $10 billion from property owners and giving it to “Cool Cities” liberal savages.
Rick is nothing more than another lying, thieving leftist. Michigan is a shithole run by shitheads, elected by assholes.
He is a sweetie. I will be sorry to lose him. God only knows what we could get next.
what was put in water to make it so bad?
They had at least 4 gov entities...what were they doing all those months?
why not just say had a problem right off?