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marmar

(76,991 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 11:45 AM Oct 2015

Are Flint's lead problems just incompetence or something worse?





(Metro Times) You know things are bad when the best defense you can conjure is incompetence.

But that's exactly what Dan Wyant, director of Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality, resorted to last week when he admitted that the state mishandled the Flint water crisis.

"It has recently become clear that our drinking water program staff made a mistake while working with the city of Flint," Wyant announced in a written statement. "Simply stated, staff employed a federal protocol they believed was appropriate, and it was not."

It is bad enough that the obtuse and antiseptic nature of that admission stands in stark contrast to the human tragedy it is supposed to address: the contamination of a city's drinking water with lead, a potent neurotoxin that can cause permanent damage, especially in children. .....................(more)

http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/michigans-department-of-environmental-quality-admitted-incompetence-in-the-flint-lead-problem-an-independent-investigation-is-needed-to-dete/Content?oid=2378217




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Are Flint's lead problems just incompetence or something worse? (Original Post) marmar Oct 2015 OP
total disreguard for the people living there hollysmom Oct 2015 #1
because they have the nerve to be "black", "colored", immigrant or POOR Demeter Oct 2015 #4
This would never happen safeinOhio Oct 2015 #5
This is the problem with unelected emergency managers. drm604 Oct 2015 #2
Liability should fall on the governing authority. Downwinder Oct 2015 #3

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
1. total disreguard for the people living there
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:02 PM
Oct 2015

in the name of profit. the city flew downhill after the "emergency manager" took over - the people in the city don't even have voting rights.

 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
4. because they have the nerve to be "black", "colored", immigrant or POOR
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 04:16 PM
Oct 2015

and Lansing (seat of state government) is really down on poverty--seeking to eliminate poor people by hook or crook....just not by providing income or jobs! Or safe water, or public education...the list goes on!

Yep, it's class warfare at the extermination level, brought to you by legions of GOP politicians (and not stopped in the slightest by Democratic Governor Granholm, when she was in office).

drm604

(16,230 posts)
2. This is the problem with unelected emergency managers.
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:04 PM
Oct 2015

Their allegiance is to the state and to the budget. The citizens come second to saving money.

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
3. Liability should fall on the governing authority.
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 04:05 PM
Oct 2015

Which would not be the City but the State since the City is controlled by the State and residents have no control of Governmental decisions.

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