Republican Governor Knowingly Poisoned City Of Flint Michigan

[GoLeft TV]

It isn’t often that a state of emergency is declared over a disaster that is 100% man-made and intentional, but that’s exactly what has happened in the city of Flint, Michigan. As residents in the city struggle to find drinkable water, the National Guard has been deployed to help distribute bottled water to residents.

The crisis actually began about 18 months ago when Republican governor Rick Snyder made the decision to balance the city’s budget at the expense of the health and safety of residents of Flint. The governor and his appointed “budget experts” decided to save the city some money by switching their water supply from the city of Detroit’s supply to the Flint River, and according to Occupy Democrats, this river was known to be both highly polluted and carried an unusually high salt content. The high salinity of this water caused the city’s pipes to begin eroding, which then leached lead into the city’s water.

[ViseGrip]

1. He needs to resign. Today is not soon enough! He should be arrested and hauled out of his office!

[world wide wally]

2. Where is Ted Nugent when you need him?

Not a word about a Reublican Governor poisoning an entire city in his own backyard, but an incoherent tirade against Democrats Obama and Clinton about a bullshit conspiracy theory in Benghazi.
Think this has anything to do with Republican politics at all?

[snort]

3. Let's put corporations in charge.

That way the people of Flint would have a choice of filthy contaminated water. Privatize!

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Somthing else is missing here.

Where was the Mayor(a democrat)in all this. Suddenly we have a disaster,why? Things do not happen in a vacuum. Seems to everyone,the records of the amount and quality of a Cities drinking water sources are of public record,and where was the outrage by the Mayor and City Council? Is the Corruption that blatant. It seems to be way past time that this city gets a total house cleaning.

[JeaneRaye]

5. Snyder neutered elected officials.

When Governor Snyder took office he pretty much neutered any of the elected officials, including the mayor and city councils in all the towns of Michigan. Instead, he appointed City Managers, that were NOT elected by the people, and who were accountable to ONLY the Governor. The blame here belongs solely with Rick Snyder and the people he anointed ( I mean, appointed). He belongs in prison. These children will suffer the consequences of this decision to take water from a river that is so caustic that even GM wouldn't use it to wash their cars, for the rest of their lives.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. My question is what the heck was going on

with the Democratic Party in Michigan. Understand the results. Everyone turned a blind eye to the corruption in Michigan's largest Cities. Watched the Retugs spin these issues and the rest is what you see. Do understand the Koch Bros pumped millions into campaigns through bogus front names. Of course the home grown clown family Devoe had a field day beating the snot out of African American Community and their association to the Corrupt Leadership.

Again we see what happens when a fat and sassy group that thinks they can do know wrong and it's do as I say and not as I do. First it was the Democrats,and now it appears the Rethugs may have screwed the pooch.

[deancr]

6. For those wishing to get into the weeds

of this horror show:

http://bridgemi.com/2016/01/who-approved-switch-to-flint-river-states-answers-draw-fouls/

The decisions were all made by the Governor's appointed Emergency Managers, state agencies, and the Governor by extension.

Remember that the emergency manager law was voted down by state ballot referendum and then again made law by the republican legislature. They made sure the second version would not be subject to the will of the people by attaching a monetary component which shielded it from the referendum process.

This is not America.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. let's put on our TinFoil hats and consider this -

was this an 'experiment' of the uber-RightWing - as was the union-busting experiment in Wisconsin under Gov. Walker or the insane tax policies in Kansas under Gov. Brownback??

[robbob]

9. Today on NPR a Michigan area reporter was also blaming Obama

At first I was like "sheesh, yeah let's blame Obama", but then he went on to say Obama's appointed head of the EPA was made aware of lead in the Flint city drinking water almost a year ago and also did nothing about it.

I'm as skeptical as the next guy when it comes to the "blame Obama" crowd, but if this is true is does raise some questions. Anybody got info on this point?

[SamKnause]

10. ....the National Guard has been deployed....

The National Guard consists of 7 people who are residents of Flint, Michigan.

They have been drinking the lead laden water.

It is now their job to pass out bottled water.

7 people does not equate deploying the National Guard.