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Keyser SÃ¶ze

On 1/23/16 4:26 PM, wrote:
Flint Michigan ... do I have to say anything else.
You have a democratic mayor, a republican governor and the EPA.
It is hard to point the finger at anyone in particular but the
government has clearly failed them.

My question is, way back when Flint was rolling in Detroit money, long
before we heard of Michael Moore, why didn't they replace those lead
pipes? We knew lead pipe was bad when I was a kid. They also knew
about acid rain and the effect of low pH water on lead.
My water here, pretty much does not touch any kind of metal until it
hits the faucet.

"LANSING, Mich. (NYT) — A top aide to Michigan’s governor referred to
people raising questions about the quality of Flint’s water as an
“anti-everything group.” Other critics were accused of turning
complaints about water into a “political football.” And worrisome
findings about lead by a concerned pediatrician were dismissed as
“data,” in quotes.

"That view of how the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder initially dealt
with the water crisis in the poverty-stricken, black-majority city of
Flint emerged from 274 pages of emails, made public by the governor on
Wednesday."

Perhaps the Snyder administration thought it would be easier, more
efficient and cheaper to poison and kill mass numbers of blacks rather
than have the police do it one at a time.