Tiberius Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Meanwhile, evidence is building that state officials were cavalier or even negligent about the risks of switching to river water. City officials complained that the switch was rushed. The state Department of Environmental Quality joked that employees fielding complaints from Flint deserved a raise. A state budget office in Flint got bottled water for its employees after issues of bacterial contamination first emerged, even as the state insisted the water was fine to drink. http://www.vox.com/cards/flint-michigan-water-crisis/what-is-the-flint-water-crisis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 http://www.vox.com/cards/flint-michigan-water-crisis/what-is-the-flint-water-crisis Nothing to see here. Move along. Your government is 100% functional and cares about you. As a matter of fact if you just give them more money they'll do an even better job for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 We're from the government and we're here to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH3 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 We're from the government and we're here to help. CONGRATULATIONS!! You managed to crack out a canned answer....next the the BN is going to hire you for a "PowerTake" column!!! Do a little homework. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 CONGRATULATIONS!! You managed to crack out a canned answer....next the the BN is going to hire you for a "PowerTake" column!!! Do a little homework. Racist says whaaaaaat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 Nothing to see here. Move along. Your government is 100% functional and cares about you. As a matter of fact if you just give them more money they'll do an even better job for you. Saving money caused this problem. Your canned Conservative answer about throwing money at a problem is especially ridicilulous here. Newsflash: Money makes the world go round! Do you not pay your bills because you are sick of throwing money at that problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Saving money caused this problem. Your canned Conservative answer about throwing money at a problem is especially ridicilulous here. Newsflash: Money makes the world go round! Do you not pay your bills because you are sick of throwing money at that problem? The government make terrible fiscal decisions often times to "preferred" sub contractors or groups who so happen to also be donors with no oversight or accountability. Spending money is a necessity. Spending money wisely and being held accountable versus pissing it away on poor decisions is not the same. I don't know who is to blame here because I havent looked very closely at it. My cynical gut reaction tells me there was government mismanagement and corruption somewhere along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 The EPA's Flint Abdication - WSJ : The agency tries to rewrite its history in the lead-water debacle.www.wsj.com/. Michael Moore rails against Democrats for Flint water crisis ...www.washingtontimes.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Michael Moore rails against Democrats for Flint water crisis ... www.washingtontimes.com/ Interesting to hear a die-hard SoProg sum it all up: “Flint has voted for Dems for 84 straight yrs. What did it get us? For 18 months Dems remained silent &ignored pleas while Flint was poisoned,”Mr. Mooretweeted to his 1.97 million followers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 (edited) Also from Vox EPA email: "I'm not so sure Flint is the community we want to go out on a limb for" Vox Pease note, the agency doesn't want to go out on a limb, NOT because the situation isn't serious, but due to concerns of the history of CORRUPTION OF DEMOCRAT city leaders. . Edited March 18, 2016 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Saving money caused this problem. Your canned Conservative answer about throwing money at a problem is especially ridicilulous here. Newsflash: Money makes the world go round! Do you not pay your bills because you are sick of throwing money at that problem? No I'm sorry. Poor leadership caused the problem. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-went-wrong-in-flint-water-crisis-michigan/ FTA: Officials at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the agency in charge of making sure water is safe in the state, made a series of decisions that had disastrous consequences: Against federal guidelines, they chose not to require the Flint water plant to use optimized corrosion control, despite telling the Environmental Protection Agency they were doing so in an email on Feb. 27, 2015. They took few samples and took them from the wrong places, using a protocol known to miss important sources of lead, which some say didn’t comply with a 25-year-old law meant to prevent lead exposure in residential water. They threw out two samples whose inclusion would have put more than 10 percent of the tests above what’s known as the “actionable level” of lead, 15 parts per billion. Had the DEQ not done so, the city would have been required to warn residents that there was a problem with lead in the water back in the summer of 2015, or possibly earlier.1 The switch has been described as an effort to save money, but Flint’s water system hadn’t been a drain on the budget. In fact, the water paid for itself and then some, paying out about $1.5 million annually to the city’s general fund in the years leading up to the switch, according to Dayne Walling, who was mayor in 2009-15.3 Do you not pay your bills because you are sick of throwing money at that problem? WTF does this even mean? Quit with the tired old crap "conservatives don't want to pay any taxes". We want our taxes spent responsibly and governments on all levels from both sides have shown time and time again that they do not have the ability to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Yup. It starts with the Michigan DEQ, who are supposed to be the expert to whom Snyder would defer. Snyder gets blame for being where the buck stops, but that never stopped Barry from refusing to accept blame for anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Why is nobody putting a finger on Detroit? Imagine if a private firm held on to higher water rates for Flint, forcing it to use contaminated river water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Saving money caused this problem. Your canned Conservative answer about throwing money at a problem is especially ridicilulous here. Newsflash: Money makes the world go round! Do you not pay your bills because you are sick of throwing money at that problem? No need for any particular insight needed here. Just know that anything run by the government is for shite. See Chefs post above. Some things really are that simple gatorman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Why is nobody putting a finger on Detroit? Imagine if a private firm held on to higher water rates for Flint, forcing it to use contaminated river water. Shhhhh! That's been run by Dems for decades too. Find someplace else to point the finger and assign blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Shhhhh! That's been run by Dems for decades too. Find someplace else to point the finger and assign blame. Like, say, THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR! Genius! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 They need to raise taxes in flint for more water! There has to be clean water within 100 miles, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 They need to raise taxes in flint for more water! There has to be clean water within 100 miles, right? It's actually not the river water that's the problem. It's the water treatment. The chemicals they're using eat at the old lead and cast iron pipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Watchdog.org @Watchdogorg 9m9 minutes ago Give Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder some credit for releasing internal Flint water emails to media & public. http://ow.ly/ZFrxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....lybob Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 It's actually not the river water that's the problem. It's the water treatment. The chemicals they're using eat at the old lead and cast iron pipes. you have that backwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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