''I’m not so sure Flint is the community we want to go out on a limb for.'' -- Debbie Baltazar, EPA

[Hydra]

26. It sounds like a broken record lately

"At every stage of this process, it seems that we spend more time trying to maintain State/local relationships than we do trying to protect the children," he wrote. "You don't have to drop a bowling ball off of every building in every city to prove that gravity (and science) will work the same way everywhere. It's basic chemistry."

The emails also show a reluctance from EPA to use the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund -- money that the federal agency gives states to loan to communities for water infrastructure repairs -- for water filters. Officials worried that the money would be misspent in a cash-strapped city like Flint, where for years water rate revenues funded other public works projects.

There's no money to work on infrastructure, because we're giving it to the 1%. Then something horrible happens, and nobody wants to deal with it or spend the more money to repair it. So people die horribly while politicians make political hay over it or try to make sure it isn't their fault somehow.

I think it's safe to say we've graduated into a type of society that has no foundation.