Posted on 01/21/2016 7:29:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This is all part of a deliberate Union/Democrat strategy to undermine Republicans in Rust Belt states and contain the Scott Walker revolution to Wisconsin.
Isn’t water a municipal problem? Why is WaPo bringing the state and federal governments into the discussion?
This is sad for the people in Flint, but if the Governor just apologizes and does not stick up for himself then he is just another republican weasel.
Liberal Press Logic:
Hurricane Katrina
Democratic mayor + Democratic governor + Republican president = blame the Republican president.
Flint, Michigan
Democratic mayor + Republican governor + Democratic president / EPA = blame the Republican governor.
what was the lead content in parts per billion?
Good point. GWB got blamed for the Katrina floods, even though the levies had been a local issue for like forever.
Good point. GWB got blamed for the Katrina floods, even though the levies had been a local issue for like forever.
:: Turns out the Flint River had eroded the city’s lead pipes and fixtures ::
Wasn’t it FEDERAL LAW to exchange ^any and all^ lead-alloy pipe and lead-soldered public water distribution systems?
Did Flint not comply?
IIRC, the time frame for compliance was circa 1978.
Just like Katrina was Bush’s fault yet Hurricane Sandy was NOT Obama’s fault. Our lying media at it again-—this has everything to do with ousting a Republican legislature in a radical left wing, Moslem state. Political pander and nonsense at the cost of innocent lives.
Black majority city, Democrat run, 29% of homes headed by a female etc. etc.
Now if Hillary Clinton was Michigan governor...
I think I can simplify your equations:
Anything Bad = Blame Republican
IOW, never let a crisis go to waste.
There is also the other issue of the EPA’s involvement in the mine spill in the river in Colorado. That, along with the EPA’s involvement in the Flint situation, paints many many questions on the agencie abilities.
If there are questions and concerns about the safety of the water, I do not have any problem with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality or the EPA to issue stop-use order.
It happened here in Indiana. Several years ago, INDOT bridge inspectors recorded cracks in structural members of the Sherman Minton Bridge (I-64) crossing the Ohio River near Louisville. These cracks were on fracture-critial bridge members (there was no redundancy should those members failed). Given the sitution, the INDOT Commission promptly briefed the Governor (Mitch Daniels) and told him the bridge had to be closed NOW. Daniels picked up the phone, called his Kentucky counterpart, and briefed him on the sitution. Both agreed to close the bridge immediately. And that is what happened. The bridge was closed for repairs within a day.
The timeliness of the involvement of the EPA and the Michigan DEQ is very questionable: Acency fail. It is hard for decision makers like an emergency manager or governor or anyone else to make decisions if they are not being breifed in a timely manner.
Apparently, they still have lead solder in the homes, and lead alloy pipe as service lines...and the service lines are apparently the homeowner’s to worry about.
BUT...water system operators have great responsibility and authority to ‘protect’ their system. And since an empty house with dead end water in a lead service line could put lead into the larger system, they should have replaced the service lines too.
The democrats took over in Flint in the late 60s. Almost all of them have either spent time in prison or should be in prison. They get in there and enrich themselves and their friends with no-work, high-paying jobs.
They then don't pay attention to their jobs, they make decisions which down the road create havoc and then when the media gets wind of problems they look for the closest Republican to blame it all on.
Flint used to be a really nice little town, the original home of General Motors and Buick, great schools, nice old homes on tree-lined streets. And it has died because of democrats gaming the system for decades.
And now they are pointing to the Republican governor as the culprit.
My parents who live part of the year in the home we all grew up in - drank that water. They probably have irreversible brian damage and I am pissed.
But to blame the governor is not right. They need to go back to every mayor and board member who had anything to do with water decisions and string them up legally.
The Fed EPA wrote a new rule just for this type of event back in 2000. It gave the water suppliers time to adjust based on the percentage of samples above 5 ppb. The cities and water companies objected to the flat 5 ppb limit. The allowable percentage is complicated and also time limited. Flint was 40% above and the limit I think is 10%. The source of the lead is not the river water but the leaching by the river water of the old water pipes in Flint, like a lot of other cities.
It has become a political issue because the city of Flint is like Detroit after years of Democratic mismanagement. So they go after the Republican Governor who had little to do with the problem until now.
It is a municipal problem, usually, but Flint is bankrupt, and the governor appointed an “emergency manager” to govern the city by decree until the fiscal problems are solved. While it’s true that the emergency manager and the state had a hand in this, it’s more complicated.
There is no solution for Flint, it’s a city in social collapse. The tax base has disappeared and the infrastructure is falling apart. Part of the blame may go to the state, but some goes to the EPA for covering this up (what do we pay them for? The EPA should be disbanded if they can’t handle issues like this).
Most of the blame goes to the people of Flint. Many homes still have lead pipes, many don’t pay their bills, and they have been mis-managed as a city for decades.
Did I mention that Flint is one of the most Democrat-controlled cities in the US?
Flint is the future of the US, if Democrats keep getting elected. They are trying to turn California into Flint. They’ll turn every place into Flint, given the chance.
You can reverse lead poisoning with EDTA. It’s important to act quickly. If the lead poisoning is serious, it should be done with intravenous EDTA. Otherwise, taking EDTA orally is good enough. This has been known since at least 1960. But EDTA is off-patent.
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