Well…there was a little bit of good news from here in Michigan over the weekend that I almost forgot to write about…but, I remembered so here goes….you remember a few years back, the repubs in charge of the state were doing what repubs do, trying to make a profit off the water supply of Flint by switching it from Detroit where good, clean water was supplied for decades to the Flint river that was still polluted from years of industrial dumping from GM and other companies. With the finances of the city in dire straights due to population loss and cuts to state aid that is rampant under the repubs as they give tax breaks to corporations and the rich, Snyder appointed an emergency manager to take over the city…displacing the elected officials from the mayor on down whose only reason for being there was to cut costs with no regard for the safety of the residents. When the switch to the Flint River was done, the corrosive nature of the water started to leach lead from the old pipes and expose 100,000 people to huge amounts of lead…the big thing here is that Snyder and his cronies knew about the lead problem for a year and did nothing about it as men, women, and children were being poisoned. So, this weekend, Snyder was added back to the class action suit filed on behalf of the poisoned city and is now exposed to paying damages for his incompetence/inaction or the repub disease of just not caring about anyone who is not rich or a donor to their party…I, for one, hope he ends up losing everything and the people of Flint can at least use those millions to try to help fix the damage that was done…typical repub….
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Typical smug asses…
Well…have been keeping up with the water debacle in Flint, and every day more information comes out in e-mails that the Snyder appointees in the Department of Environmental Quality…(the state department that is responsible for the mess in Flint) were a bunch of smug asses that thought they knew better than the EPA that there was a problem with not treating the water with anti corrosive chemicals. These idiots even went so far as trying to avoid returning the EPA’s e-mails since the person there was just a pain in the ass for harping on the fact they needed to treat the water…even going so far as getting their bosses to intercede so they guy would leave them alone. This is just another reason that political hacks who think government can’t do anything right should NEVER be put in charge of an important function like protecting the people of this state from poisoning….typical repub MO….hope these idiots go to jail…geez…
Let’s add insult to injury…
Well…as I hope you already know, actions by the repub appointed emergency manager in Flint has led to the poisoning of almost all of the residents there…and now our idiot governor has admitted that he knew way back in July that they were doing it…but did nothing about it even though every epidemiologist knows that lead poisoning is cumulative and can’t be fixed. That alone should have ole Snyder in jail or at least out of office…but that wasn’t enough for the ghouls appointed by Snyder…no, not by a long ways…now they are planning on shutting off the poison water since some people can’t pay for it…yeah, how much worse can the repubs get? Ruin the water system, poison the people, and then bitch when people either can’t or won’t pay to get poisoned anymore…just adding insult to injury that will last the rest of the people’s lives. We all know that the repubs don’t give a damn about anyone but their rich donors or corporations, but this is just too, too much…geez….
Cry me a river, Snyder….
Well….boy, these tea party folks like our governor Snyder are a thin-skinned bunch. After getting criticized by Hillary and Bernie during the debate last night for his administration poisoning the people of Flint with lead and other chemicals…ole Snyder took to twitter to bitch about his treatment by the politicians saying “political statements and finger pointing from political candidates only distract from solving the Flint water crisis”….cry me a frickin river, Rick….you screwed the pooch here and and people have died! So, your little fee fees are hurt and you’re going to pout just like the rest of you repub assholes when you get called out for your mistakes? Typical “tough” repub we have here….one who knew over a year ago that the people of Flint were being poisoned to save 200 bucks a day by not treating the water correctly….and now the rest of us here in Michigan are on the hook to the tune of more than 1.5 billion dollars for the damage this “emergency manager” did….Have you no shame? One thing to remember is the same thing is happening all across the state, in Pontiac, and in Detroit where the crony capitalism of you repub idiots is bleeding this state and turning it into a third world country just to give tax breaks to the rich and business…maybe now people will see that any place the repubs are in charge is turned into a hell hole….geez…
It’s even worse than I thought in Flint…
Well…as you know, I did a post a few weeks back on the lead poisoning of the people of Flint when the first info came in that the water source was changed to just save money…a decision made by the Snyder appointed emergency manager…but, it’s much, much worse than that….these assholes knew they were poisoning the poor people in Flint and that they were taking care of it with water treatment when they just flat lied about it with a pattern of faking the water test results that would have exposed the danger. This is typical repub crap…make decisions based on cost when the guys making the decisions know they will hurt people….and they just don’t give a damn..especially when they can go home to their nice suburbs where the water and air are clean and it has no effect on them…the water in Flint was so bad the GM stopped using the water at their engine plant since it ruined iron engine blocks…read that again…Flint was saying that there was nothing wrong with drinking the water when it was eating away iron…what do you think it would do to a person? Typical repub crap and someone needs to go to jail for this….starting with the guy that appointed them..ole Rick Snyder..I’m glad there is now a federal investigation going on and I’m sure they will find that Snyder knew what was going on…but he will use the Chris Christie defense that he didn’t know what the people he appointed were doing….and that will be a lie…geez…
Poisoning our children for tax cuts for the rich…
Well…I have been trying to work up some outrage over the shenanigans of the repubs for a while but their trashing of the country for profit has gotten so brazen that I just have to say something. Right here in Michigan we see the results of all these giveaways to the rich with the lead poisoning of the people of Flint, caused by the emergency manager there making the decision to disconnect from the Detroit water system and to start pumping water from the Flint River since it would save the city 12 million dollars a year. For 16 months now, since the switch, the people of Flint have not had any water that is safe to drink since the EPA and Michigan DEQ says that there are no safe levels of lead in water…none, that means that any lead makes the water unsafe…but, Snyder and his cronies knew that and just kept doing study after study and dragging their feet since to do something might mean they would have to raise some taxes to pay for the fix…and the result is we have many of our fellow citizens that are permanently damaged since lead poisoning never goes away…it can’t be treated, and the results will be felt by the poorest of us for the rest of their lives…all just to keep cutting taxes for the rich. This is how the repubs govern folks…it’s all bottom line to them…balance the budget with no thought to what that kind of nonsense does to the people…you have seen it time and time again here in Michigan and across the country from the repubs..ideology before the people and to hell with who it hurts…I just hate these guys…geez…