national guard called into Flint

She'll ignore the part where the Democrat(ic) Party controlled city council and the Mayor worked to change the water and try to tell us that the Governor is the only complicit party. The reality is the people in Flint got hosed by their own city council.
 
you see if they had treated tthe water like promised there would be no eroding lead pipes.

Now those pipes are destroyed forever
 
If he gov had forced detroit to sell them the treated water the people wouldn't have had to go to river water


deroit was mad because they were building their own treatment system but it was not ready yet
 
PostmodernProphet said:
lol.....Democrat mayor, Democrat city council, Democrat emergency manager, Democrat agency head.......Democrat voters...........yet Leon's Scat thinks that "obviously" Republicans created the tragedy.......
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I don't have to blame anyone for Flint's water crisis, Pastor.
Governor Snyder has blamed himself! Lol!


Snyder takes blame for Flint water crisis


Task force: State agency mostly to blame for Flint water crisis
Flint reconnects to Detroit water to resolve health concerns

FLINT, Mich. (WOOD/AP)—Governor Snyder is taking the blame for the drinking water crisis in Flint.

In a news conference Monday afternoon, Snyder said Michigan’s response in recent months wasn’t “good enough” and he’s “responsible for what goes on in state government.”

Snyder officially dubbed the situation surrounding Flint’s water a crisis during the address.

Water drawn from the Flint River leached lead from old plumbing for months. Testing in October detected increased lead levels in residential water supplies and in children’s blood.

Snyder said his administration first confirmed lead problems around Oct. 1, after earlier mistakes made by other state agencies. He cited “major issues” at the Department of Environmental Quality, whose director recently resigned.

Earlier Monday, Snyder signed an executive order creating a team to address the issue.

The Flint Water Interagency Coordinating Committee will bring together experts to work on long-term solutions while addressing the ongoing public health concern, according to a news release from Governor Snyder’s office.

http://woodtv.com/2016/01/11/snyder-greenlights-group-to-address-flint-water-crisis/
 
GOP, not government, to blame for Flint crisis
11:30 p.m. EST January 12, 2016
flint




We know that from the beginning Snyder and his appointed emergency managers denied any issues regarding Flint’s switch from the Detroit Water System to the Flint River. The lies and denial continued even after months of public outcry as people in Flint were forced to drink poisoned water. In this case, the man-made catastrophe unfolding in Flint is Snyder’s responsibility and he needs to be held accountable.

While it’s easy to look at this as a failure of government, any investigation that does more than scratch the surface shows the real issues at the heart of the Flint disaster: decades of Republican austerity policies cutting millions of dollars from local budgets and making it impossible to invest in infrastructure. Couple that with Snyder’s systemic dismantling of democracy by installing an unaccountable emergency manager and relentlessly putting profits and budget cuts over people, and lead-poisoned children is what you get. This wasn’t a failure of government. It was a perfect example of Republicans putting profits over people.

Had our representatives invested in our state’s water infrastructure over the years, Flint residents might not be dealing with lead poisoning. But they didn’t, for the same reasons they haven’t invested in other public goods. Snyder and his emergency managers chose cutting costs over public health and now people are suffering.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/01/12/letter-gop-blame-flint-water/78723406/
 
LOL, poor Legion. Posting an article from a partisan Dem who blames the GOP. Trolling ain't easy man.
 
evince said:
If he gov had forced detroit to sell them the treated water the people wouldn't have had to go to river water


deroit was mad because they were building their own treatment system but it was not ready yet
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Learn to use the quote feature, you stupid ditz.
 
Leonthecat said:
I don't have to blame anyone for Flint's water crisis, Pastor.
Governor Snyder has blamed himself! Lol!


Snyder takes blame for Flint water crisis


Task force: State agency mostly to blame for Flint water crisis
Flint reconnects to Detroit water to resolve health concerns

FLINT, Mich. (WOOD/AP)—Governor Snyder is taking the blame for the drinking water crisis in Flint.

In a news conference Monday afternoon, Snyder said Michigan’s response in recent months wasn’t “good enough” and he’s “responsible for what goes on in state government.”

Snyder officially dubbed the situation surrounding Flint’s water a crisis during the address.

Water drawn from the Flint River leached lead from old plumbing for months. Testing in October detected increased lead levels in residential water supplies and in children’s blood.

Snyder said his administration first confirmed lead problems around Oct. 1, after earlier mistakes made by other state agencies. He cited “major issues” at the Department of Environmental Quality, whose director recently resigned.

Earlier Monday, Snyder signed an executive order creating a team to address the issue.

The Flint Water Interagency Coordinating Committee will bring together experts to work on long-term solutions while addressing the ongoing public health concern, according to a news release from Governor Snyder’s office.

http://woodtv.com/2016/01/11/snyder-greenlights-group-to-address-flint-water-crisis/
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Sure Bucky, sure!!
 
Flint doctor makes state see light about lead in water

Under the steady gaze of a watercolor giraffe and tissue paper butterflies, a Flint pediatrician and mother of two last month forced the state of Michigan to snap to attention.

But getting the state to concede the probability that Flint’s water is poisoning its children with lead — after months of assurances from both city and state officials that the water is safe — was far from easy.

It required Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, 38, to sidestep bureaucracy. It meant awkward conversations and putting her hospital — city-owned Hurley Medical Center — smack-dab in a political minefield.

And it meant checking her data “a zillion times,” she said, then second-guessing herself to the point of being physically ill when a state spokesman questioned her credibility.

Just hours after state officials acknowledged her data, Hanna-Attisha felt equal parts exhausted and vindicated — at one moment laughing at congratulatory e-mails and comments from colleagues (“Maybe they’ll give you a lead key to the city,” one had quipped), at another reciting sobering statistics about the life-long damage from lead poisoning: irreversible brain damage, development delays, speech problems, a boosted risk for behavioral issues, serious chronic conditions, to name a few.


DETROIT FREE PRESS
Q & A on Flint's water troubles

“It has been such a physiologic response,” she said of her look at the numbers and the state’s reaction. She sat in her office, where children’s artwork hangs haphazardly on the walls. A pink-lettered sign on her door — “This is my fight song,” it reads — pays homage to Hurley’s youngest cancer patients.

“At times I want to cry and then I’m so happy,” she said.

But then Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician for many of Flint’s poorest families whose training and experience has focused on environmental toxins and health disparities, shook her head.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/10/10/hanna-attisha-profile/73600120
 
Leonthecat said:
GOP, not government, to blame for Flint crisis
11:30 p.m. EST January 12, 2016
flint




We know that from the beginning Snyder and his appointed emergency managers denied any issues regarding Flint’s switch from the Detroit Water System to the Flint River. The lies and denial continued even after months of public outcry as people in Flint were forced to drink poisoned water. In this case, the man-made catastrophe unfolding in Flint is Snyder’s responsibility and he needs to be held accountable.

While it’s easy to look at this as a failure of government, any investigation that does more than scratch the surface shows the real issues at the heart of the Flint disaster: decades of Republican austerity policies cutting millions of dollars from local budgets and making it impossible to invest in infrastructure. Couple that with Snyder’s systemic dismantling of democracy by installing an unaccountable emergency manager and relentlessly putting profits and budget cuts over people, and lead-poisoned children is what you get. This wasn’t a failure of government. It was a perfect example of Republicans putting profits over people.

Had our representatives invested in our state’s water infrastructure over the years, Flint residents might not be dealing with lead poisoning. But they didn’t, for the same reasons they haven’t invested in other public goods. Snyder and his emergency managers chose cutting costs over public health and now people are suffering.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/01/12/letter-gop-blame-flint-water/78723406/
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Sure Bucky, sure.
 
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