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Flint Michigan, the next Hinkley, California?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Dec 15, 2015.

  1. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    The governor should call in an alchemist who can change the lead water to Goldwater.
     
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  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    If Jesus anted up hem to have clean water he would have made them vote Republican
     
  3. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The whole thing is part of an ALEC/Heritage Foundation plot to devalue and degrade the Detroit water system (still surprisingly good despite the general disaster of most other City of Detroit-owned assets) to allow the designated dictator aka city manager to sell it off to private interests who will promptly crank up residential water bills 500 percent. At the same time the city will lose one of its only real assets and be driven even further 'underwater' (heh heh) in ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, further lowering the strip-and-loot privatization selloff prices.

    Thanks to the city manager system imposed by the Shiite Teabagger junta in control of the entire state government in Lansing, the poor dumb (mostly) neegros who actually live in Detroit and other cities under the imposed city manager system have no recourse except to bend over and take whatever their kindly white overlords in Lansing (taking orders from ALEC) decide to do to them, unless:

    1. They pack up and get the hell out of the state. This is the recommended solution for the neegros from most of the bible beater holy roller Dutch Reformers who form the backbone of the West Michigan teabag regime.

    2. Intervention from a "higher power." Mostly dependent on who is running the Justice Department, the EPA and federal courts (state courts are all teabagger rubber stamps).

    3. Second Amendment Solutions -- all in good time.

    I know if somebody was pumping lead-laced water down MY kids' gullets, I'd be locking and loading.

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    Last edited: Jan 18, 2016
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Last I checked the Flint city council* vote to switch from Detroit water was 7-1 in favor.



    *I wonder which way it leans, politically?
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    It was made clear to the city council any vote against the sale would be overruled by the designated dictator.

    Needless after the teabag governor appointed his personal stooge to serve as CM and wield all authority over the city, rendering the city council only a ceremonial symbolic entity, city council seats tend not to attract courageous decisive action-oriented individuals, but shiny happy people who mainly like to "get along" and do what they're told.
     
    Last edited: Jan 18, 2016
  6. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    You can't argue with the crazy guy who mumbles to himself in public.
     
  7. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    TINMDTTMAL
     
  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    You mean Jeff Wright, the Genesee County Drain Commissioner and CEO of the Karegnondi Water Authority. The guy who spearheaded the push for the switch (which has been ongoing since at least the mid-aughts)? I can see why you would dismiss him as just another ALEC/Heritage Foundation tool ...
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    The problem in the pipes was caused by trying to treat the local water instead of using the Detroit water.
     
  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Not quite.
     
  11. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Hahahahahahaha. If it wasn't the federal government's fault it must be the county drain commissioner making these big decisions involving millions of dollars, right Q?

    Switch from Flint River to Detroit water expected to take two weeks



    The switch back to the Detroit water system — which the city abandoned in favor of treating Flint River water in April 2014 under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager — represents a significant turnaround in the state's response to Flint's escalating water crisis.

    Last week, Snyder said going back to the Detroit system was an option on the table, but he was more focused on a water plan to provide filters and free testing to Flint's residents.

    Thursday's announcement followed a recommendation Wednesday by Flint's Technical Advisory Committee to change the city's drinking water source because of rising levels of lead in both water and the blood of children and infants in the city.

     
  12. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    TINMDTTMAL
     
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