Discussion for article #247304
How about if we start with one new person in Snyderâs job and go from there.
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Can someone explain to me how this gets the lead out of the water? Jobs are nice but if youâre dead you really cant take advantage of that.
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So this was the plan?!?!? Poison the city, then start a lot of new jobs refurbishing the water infrastructure? Could we have just skipped step one? Mr. Tuff Nerd.*
*if you have to keep telling everyone how tough you are, then youâre probably arenât. Or youâre a MMA fighter.
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Five years too late. The issue is that Flint has been bleeding jobs and residents for decades. (Roger and Me came out in 1989.) Flint is not alone, but Flint and Detroit are two of the most extreme examples of deindustrialization, mostly because they were so dependent on the auto industry. So when a city loses 1/2 its people, but still has to maintain its infrastructure for the original amount; and when the incomes people used to get have been cut by two tier wages; and when the state drastically cuts revenue sharing, the cities lost their revenue base. Snyder said if we cut taxes and make it hard for workers to unionize, the jobs will appear. Well apparently that did not happen in Flint. Even 1000 new jobs does not even begin to make up for the losses. Oh, and there is plenty of good cheap housing in the Flint suburbs, if the new jobs go to newcomers, why would they move to the city, and if the jobs go to Flint city residents, maybe they view it as they finally have enough money to move to the suburbs too.
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Realistically Flint has the same scale of needs that New Orleans had after Katrina, maybe even more. But our politics are not set up for that. You got the racist party who blocks help to âthoseâ people but gets help when tornados and floods hit their bits of rural heaven. When trouble like this hits Flint, you get lines like âFlint was a victim of mismanagementâ, âwhy didnât they replace the lead lines when they had the chanceâ, âthis is a failure of government at all levels.â But Snyder and the legislative republicans have a greater than usual responsibility in this case, because they installed the emergency manager, when the voters overturned the em law they restored it but in an even harsher version, and it was the EM making the decisions here. They are scapegoating the flint water employees and the EPA at every opportunity, but all their mirrors is broke.
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Did not know all these details. This is so pitiful that we have such cruelty in our political leaders. And then, to compound the felony, we re-elect them.
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So when talk starts of recalling Synder or he must resign NOW he wants to bring jobs to FlintâŚgot ya GovâŚ
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well⌠at least one Republican has finally come up with a jobs plan⌠wait until it becomes a party plankâŚ
with the additional feature of saving $100, was that per month or per year, for the âfiscally responsibleâ partyâŚ
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It doesn´t, and what business is going to move there until their employees can safely drink the water?
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itâs bribery
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Hey Rick, how about starting with a thousand plumbers and utility workers, to replace every inch of lead pipe in the city? Or is non-toxic water too much to ask?
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Perhaps the Snyder administration will insist that the pipeline contracts mandate that digging the ditches for the pipeline, and other laborious tasks, be done by hand! Certainly more than 1000 new jobs could be created in Flint by this method. The non-union laborers would flock to designated pick-up locations to await being picked and then trucked to their work sites. Heck, call such laborers âindependent contractorsâ and oodles more could be saved by withholding benefits!
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The only small thing that I´d point out it that the EPA has fallen down on the job, not just in Flint but regarding water systems around the country. Still, there´s no question that the Synder admin is the father of this debacle.
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It doesnât. It diverts attention from Snyderâs reckless disregard for the people of Flint to a more benevolent topic. But what should be asked is why do folks have to suffer lead poisoning to get some action by the Governor? Why not a 1000 jobs without a calamity first? And while heâs at atâŚcan he tell us how his little part of Government can create jobs when the going yak from the GOP is that government canât and has never created a job?
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Heâs trying to distract from the newest tranche of emails that were just recently released showing several people that reported directly to Snyder had warned him directly of the problems that would result in Flint before they transitioned to the Flint River as a water source. This thing about jobs, though necessary for the area, is nothing but being able to talk about Flint, and pretend your doing something to improve lives, without having to address this newest outrage uncovered by a FOIA requestâŚwhich moreover, is how he destroyed lives. Its called âchanging the subject.â
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This is such complete and utter bullsh*t.
But I bet it means that Snyderâs emergency manager sends out an edict seizing a bunch of property by eminent domain for a site, or declares Flint an OSHA-free zone or some other trick to make it an even worse place while all the jobs fall through.
It would be nice if it happened, but itâs completely irrelevant to the water issues, and since Snyder has lied about everything else thereâs no reason for him to tell the truth now. I wonder if some new piece of disastrous news is about to come out and this was supposed to distract.
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âFlint, with a population of about 100,000, was switched by EMFs that Snyder appointed from Detroitâs water system to the Flint River as a way to save money until a new pipeline to Lake Huron was ready. But during those 18 months, the corrosive water leached lead from the cityâs old plumbing because certain treatments werenât added to the water.â
FIFY
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Hey Rick,
I want a Unicorn.
Betcha I get what I want before you get what you want.
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