I'm mad about Flint's poisoned water

[HereSince1628]

If I could solve this by occupying a Michigan Wildlife Sanctuary, I'd do it.

But I'm just one of the monsters among you. The GOP will use me to undermine you.

My God! PEOPLE! We are knowingly poisoning people and un elected 'managers' are mandating the parents of the poisoning victims pay for poison or be unable to flush their toilets.

We the people have lost the negotiations for relief, there is a desperate need for a political revolution.

[enid602]

1. Flint

The Emergency Manager was installed to bring Detroit out of bankruptcy, not to subject the municipalities to countless lawsuits. How could he not have known it was not a good idea to run water through Flint's antiquated pipes? Did he not do any testing beforehand?

[HereSince1628]

3. IMO, someone knows where the valve is that shut-off the safe water to Flint.

What MUST happen is people motivated by good will toward other people must force open that valve!

Must we occupy some locality and declare some sort of "our hand is a map of your state" rebellion in order to make that happen?

We're fucking around being entertained by people who want to -steal federal land- occupy our newsfeed while our future, Michigan children are being poisoned!

How many scientific insights and important discoveries have been lost to crass selfish needs to deny Flint safe water???? How many surgeons, attorneys, future problem solvers are being lost to the ravages of lead poisoning?

'WE' tolerate the poisoning of the children of an entire city. WHY?

[annabanana]

7. They switched back to the Detroit water supply quite awhile ago.. unfortunately

the Flint River water so corroded the pipes that lead is leaching into to the "good" water.. making it STILL undrinkable.

[synergie]

10. I think this was the Flint EM, and as a GOP appointee, there was no homework done or any

sort of forethought, just knee jerk actions to save money, and then deny and shrug off all responsibility while they encouraged people to drink lead tainted water and pretend that beer-colored water out of the tap was safe to drink without testing anything.

[safeinOhio]

2. Anyone check to see if Snyder got $

from the people that make and sell bottled water?

[hunter]

4. Hell yes.

[newfie11]

5. I so agree with u

I don't live in MI or California but these disasters are man made.
Making money regardless of safety is what it boils down to.
Jail time for those that made these decision.
In snyders case life time incarceration would be to short.

[HereSince1628]

6. Well, it's a disaster made by POLITICAL men, yes.

I don't want to paint this too broadly. I do think there is a masculine component, that's the nature of American politics, but I think the POLITICAL component is actually the strongest beta weight on the correlation.

[Scuba]

8. Personally, I'm outraged and wonder why some are only "concerned."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141309728

[malaise]

9. It's all about markets

Fuck society - if any of our enemies (real or perceived) poisoned their citizens, we'd accuse them of genocide and contemplate bombing them.