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[CottonBear]

1. Immoral. Criminal. A crime against humanity. NT

[Celerity]

2. Mississippi is damn near a 3rd world entity at a multiplicity of levels.

[Haggard Celine]

7. Some of it is third world.

Not too far down the road from where I live, there are people living in houses that should have been condemned long ago. These places are in horrible shape, barely a roof over the heads of the people who dwell there. I don't know who owns the houses. I've seen plenty of places in this state that are worse than this.

A lot of the people who are more fortunate don't care about it either. Many of them think that the people living in these places deserve it because of something they've done or maybe they're not working hard enough. I would imagine that it's harder for the poor, knowing that few people even care about their plight.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. You get what you vote for

[badhair77]

4. Infuriating contrast -

the citizens struggling to live day-to-day without safe water but there was plenty of money to not just support but gift already wealthy people.

[Bucky]

5. So much for "running the state government like a business"

Can you imagine how much local economic activity would have been generated if that money had been spent on, like, ya know, "promoting the general welfare"?

[SunSeeker]

6. Meanwhile, the city of Jackson in Mississippi has no water.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-failing-tuesday/index.html#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16621158197702&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

[DinahMoeHum]

8. "Mississippi's affinity for the bottom"

to paraphrase the late civil rights figure Dr. Aaron Henry.

[Dorian Gray]

9. Between

Favre and Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay is growing some questionable QBs.


Re: Mississippi.... In the face of what happened in Jackson, MS... this is HORRIFIC. I hope the FBI gets to the bottom of corruption and arrests are made.

[dlk]

10. The corruption runs deep and has eaten away at the fabric of our country

Not only in Mississippi

[ret5hd]

11. So what EXACTLY, Brett, did you get paid for?

Regardless of the source of the funds. Exactly what did you think the state was buying? $1.1M for looks? For personality?

At best, on Brett’s part, this looks like fraud. At best.

[John Ludi]

12. Worst roads I've ever driven on...

and I'm from Detroit.

Recently, I spent three winters escaping from the Wisconsin tundra by van-camping in various parts of the country (the warmer parts, mostly)...playing open mics and shooting travelogues and such...and I was really taken aback by the infrastructure in MS, the parts of it I passed through. It IS third world, basically.

[PJMcK]

13. That wasted $70 million...

... should have gone to Mississippi's water systems. Right now, their state capital has a serious water system problem and more than 150,000 Americans are without drinking water.

Way to run a state, Republicans.

[sl8]

14. Dupe; deleting.

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/10601730 .