So who controlled this consortium? How were they going to profit off the poor?

[malaise]

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/01/25/3742625/documents-michigan-contradict-flint-narrative-snyder/
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As tens of thousands of Flint, Michigan, residents remain without drinkable tap water and are wondering if their children will face lifelong damage from lead exposure, new documents released in recent days cast significant doubts on the narrative embraced by Gov. Rick Synder’s (R) administration regarding how and why the city’s water supply was replaced by corrosive Flint River water to begin with.

In 2011, Snyder ordered a state takeover of Flint’s government amid the city’s mounting financial woes. During its time in receivership, a series of Snyder appointees served as “emergency managers,” overseeing Flint’s government functions and finding ways to cut spending.

Two years later, one of those managers, Darnell Earley, implemented a plan to switch Flint’s water supply from the Detroit system to a new consortium and to use water from the Flint River in the interim. He claimed this would save $6 to $8 million, one city council member recalled to the Associated Press. The Flint River water proved toxic and Snyder has said it will require a “long-term,” decades-long financial commitment to attempt to mitigate the damage to Flint children who drank the water.

But an email obtained by the Bill Johnson group and first reported by Motor City Muckraker suggests that the move might not have been necessary to reduce Flint’s water costs. Then-Detroit Water and Sewerage Department Director Sue McCormick proposed to continue providing water to Flint at a savings of $800 million over 30 years, or 20 percent less than the switch. In other words, Flint could have kept the Detroit water and still saved more money than it did. A spokeswoman for McCormick confirmed the email and reporting to ThinkProgress on Monday.


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Remember everything these ReTHUG goons and scumbags do is for profit.

[SamKnause]

1. Everything for profit and privatization is the GOP motto.

Everything they touch turns to shit.

They are very very very rarely right on any issue.

They are the true definition of insanity.

They keep doing the same things over and over with the same

disastrous results.

What a f**ked up corrupt system.

[randome]

2. No, not everything they do is for profit

Sometimes it's for power or to "set an example". Republicans love to dictate to others.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]

[librechik]

3. exactly. Money is the most important thing, but lording it over peons and making them suffer

is sexual gratification to them, with a side of self-righteous Hypocrhristianity. They usually have to pay whores to do that.