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If anybody thinks Flint is just an isolated incident, this story will come as a shock. Anybody paying attention will realize Flint is just an extreme and obvious manifestation of a giant infrastructure problem facing America. It will take trillions to bring our aging water pipes up to minimally safe levels.
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Yes sirree. Tip of the iceberg.
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Welcome to Christ Christie’s NJ…I think he’s been palling around with Rick Snyder at those Governor’s conferences a little too much when he’s not spending time as Donald tRump’s personal footstool and bouncer.
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Yep. I seem to remember that Dems had to scream about how important infrastructure was…every single time a budget was being contemplated.
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But we had the funds cut by the usual suspects in Congress, and they wouldn’t let anything of that nature continue for the remainder of President Obama’s Presidency. These assholes couldn’t even pass a non-controversial and always non-partisan highway bill like they had always done in the past before this President.
Nice going Pukes…you built that…or should I say more accurately…No you didn’t…you allowed what was built to crumple and decay without giving a flying fuck or good gosh-damn.
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One expert says 44% of America’s water lines are in poor shape or have exceeded their planned live span. Over a trillion is estimated to bring the pipe up to safe levels. Of course, up tell now most of the water line problems have had to do with water flowing out of bad pipes, but we have been lucky.
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“Lead. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand 15 hundred parts per billion. And they ought to have 'em, too!”
GOP governors have been giving way too much consulting work to J. Frank Parnell lately.
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WAIT A MINUTE … While both situations are bad, bad, bad - unless I have been fed bogus news for the past couple of years - there is a HUGE difference.
Newark - & many many other locations are the victims of gross neglect - the failure to maintain systems & correct inadequacies… people’s well being has been compromised through neglect & a failure to appropriately care for the system.
Flint - is the product of gross (potentially criminal) malfeasance - elected officials took an action - a corner- cutting sub-standard cost driven action that was internally identified as ill-advised (experts said - ‘uh … this is quite specifically NOT a good idea… but yeah… it might save money’) and so it clearly had been assessed & determined to have a high probability of an adverse outcome for the citizens of Flint.
We have to do better - all across the country - systems like Newark’s need to be modernized & maintained properly people need to be held accountable for not being on top of this … it may be difficult but the errors of omission must stop…
In Flint - it is very conceivable that somebody should be prosecuted - this was clearly an outrageous, thoroughly understood & willful, F-the poor, error of commission -
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Correlation or causality: Republicans cut state budgets and the whole infrastructure system goes to hell.
Republican government:
- huge military and wars
- huge police state and prisons
- tax cuts for the rich and corporations
The Republicans never question the cost of wars OR the cost of tax cuts for the rich - the American people are getting screwed!
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