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    The history of this crisis has been reviewed ad nauseum.

    What is new is test scores results and consequences of failing infrastructure. Coming in from grade schools no less
    Wanna bet Flint isn't the only city ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    The history of this crisis has been reviewed ad nauseum.

    What is new is test scores results and consequences of failing infrastructure. Coming in from grade schools no less
    Wanna bet Flint isn't the only city ?
    The only issue I have with this is you are blaming one party and one party only when it is every party from the bottom to the top including the last three presidents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AerchAngel View Post
    The only issue I have with this is you are blaming one party and one party only when it is every party from the bottom to the top including the last three presidents.
    Baltimore has schools where no student is proficient. What does Baltimore and Detroit have in common?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AerchAngel View Post
    The only issue I have with this is you are blaming one party and one party only when it is every party from the bottom to the top including the last three presidents.
    I blame indifference

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    The history of this crisis has been reviewed ad nauseum.

    What is new is test scores results and consequences of failing infrastructure. Coming in from grade schools no less
    Wanna bet Flint isn't the only city ?
    I expect (and hope) that some of this drop is because everyone who had the means has fled the area to some place where the dang water isn't poisonous.

    Regardless, this is inexcusable. This president and the last should have declared a state of emergency for Flint and done whatever necessary to fix it. Poisonous tap water in a major metropolitan area of America. Unbelievable.
    Go get him!

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    To the point of similarities between Flint and Baltimore -- poverty


    "... under federal law, only natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods are eligible for disaster declarations, federal and state officials said. The lead contamination of Flint's drinking water is a man-made catastrophe."

    For an in time overview with context read the first pages of this thread. Links galore
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    http://www.businessinsider.com/drink...re-plan-2018-2


    According to a study of more than three decades of the nation's tap water records, which was also released on Monday, some of the country's smaller water utilities are already struggling with the chore of keeping tap water clean. Roughly 16 million Americans get exposed to stomach bugs from drinking water coming out of their faucets each year. Some also get exposed to cancer and neurological disorders, the study authors wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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    http://www.eclectablog.com/2018/04/l...led-water.html


    So, Flint is on its own. The state took over the city, poisoned its water, killed a dozen residents due to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease, destroyed its infrastructure, imposed an austerity budget on the beleaguered city, and then handed them back the keys to the kingdom. It’s the sort of story that you expect to hear about in a banana republic, not in a modern U.S. city. But that’s life under a corporatist Republican who set out to show how a state government should be run like a business.
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    Lol, Flint too, is republican fault.

    Love it

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    Like most Rust Belt cities, the infrastructure is old and decaying .
    Decisions made at the state level during the Snyder Administration did little to ease the situation
    https://www.google.com/search?q=flin...firefox-b-1-ab
    You tell me

    oh, I don't know about (R) "fault"
    kinda like Puerto Rico (Maria) or New Orleans (Katrina) , it wasn't (R) fault there was a hurricane.
    The response and civic responsibility was less than overwhelming.
    Their governance leaves much to be desired

    Not their fault like say ... Iraq.
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    Josh Fox
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    In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared




    The story I (didn't) saw is behind a WaPo paywall

    Wonder how your water is fairing -- and if there is a CDC study to reference ?
    Flint is not an isolated incident
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    Last edited by 57Brave; 04-22-2018 at 05:18 AM.
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    sure would pay for a lot of clean water......
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    Leave it to the private sector


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    Not so sure we characterize this as "private sector" -- I see more a lone philanthropist applying a band aid.
    Never the less a good deed

    http://fortune.com/2018/10/08/musk-g...flint-schools/

    but it still doesn't solve the problem of a crumbling worn out water system.
    Not only in Flint

    But what if we ALL contribute of say $5 per month at the appropriated time we could get a jump and begin the process
    We really need an Infrastructure Week where we the people get and stay focused issues of electrical grid, water and gas delivery system, Public transportation, recycling and refuse removal .

    ---- successes and failures ---

    Perhaps once it starts showing successes --- good faith sucesses --- we start contributing $7-8 a month at the appropriated time until we are again up and running.

    Water filters though a nice/good thing are not going to put all of this back together
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    came across this this morning

    thoughts ????


    Gerry Canavan
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    I really think if more Americans traveled overseas regularly they would

    be stunned by how dirty, broken-down, and generally dysfunctional essentially

    all infrastructure in the US is, both public (roads, buses, trains)

    and private (cell networks, laundromats).
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    LANSING – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, in a response to the Flint water crisis and more recent concerns about drinking water quality, signed an executive directive Wednesday requiring state employees to immediately report to their bosses any threat to public health or safety.

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...is/2463552002/

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    LANSING, Mich. - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is asking Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to take over criminal cases connected to the Flint water crisis.

    https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...nt-water-cases
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    Brian Krassenstein
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    BOOM!!

    15 people have just been charged in the Flint, Michigan water contamination disaster.

    Charges are pending on an additional 8 individuals!

    Thanks you Justice system!
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    Imagine the good that could be done with a $5.7B investment in re piping our cities
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