[Red Badger]

Never let a crisis go to waste...........Rahm Emmanuel..............

[BenLurkin]

“Republicans had starved the government”

Not enough, obviously.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Is it any wonder why dozens of other mayors are jumping up and down shouting “Me, me, me! I have a lead problem too!” ?

[txrefugee]

This after decades of Democrat government mismanagement in Flint. How much federal taxpayer money went down this Democrat rat hole? They were whining for more, of course.

[ClearCase_guy]

Why would any politician solve a problem? Where’s the profit in that??

[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder where their dear son Mikey was in all of this?

[liberalh8ter]

Paging Michael Moore....puke

[Texas Eagle]

but as much has gone to economic and social development as has gone to safe drinking water

HA! The only people whose social and economic development is improved is the butrsucRATS and elected "officials" who received salary, benefits and pension increases with the money.

[Truth29]

This is institutional corruption and deliberate payment of many leftist dreams. People should go to jail, but none will and there will never be enough money.

[Daffynition]

[Pearls Before Swine]

Weiss said the economic and social funding is “the holistic part of the recovery.”

Great, memorable line. Grafted, wasted, diverted funds--our tax money--is part of "the holistic part of the recovery." Another great euphemism, right up there with "investments in our future."

[RicocheT]

Flint’s Democrat-run government used the New Orleans plan for Hurricane Katrina recovery money as a model on how to divert funds to their corrupt pockets, businesses that would funnel kickbacks to them and the usual Democrat constituent groups. Money to fix the water department mess was used after all the nonsense above.

[KarlInOhio]

“If I had to locate an exact cause of the crisis, above all others, it would be the ideology of extreme austerity and ‘all government is bad government.'”

So you fight against that ideology by skimming off half the money for unrelated spending, spending the "good" half badly on political cronies rather than with the best company replacing the actual lead pipes and then whine about not having enough money.

This should result in actual prison time, but I doubt anyone will even be put on leave.