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[NEWS] Annoying Orange signs order to dismantle Clean Water Rule
Rally:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on March 01, 2017, 09:11:01 PM ---it's completely relevant this time. not only is Annoying Orange not making any effort to fund the crCIA repair process, but he's actually signing a bill that will work backwards and allow for the same kind of exploits that lead to the crCIA in the first place
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I don't get it. The water quality in Flint was tested to be safe like 4 days after Annoying Orange was sworn into office. What is he supposed to do? Funnel another 5 million dollars into a glorified pipe replacement program? Flint isn't Annoying Orange's problem
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on March 01, 2017, 09:15:41 PM ---It gets really annoying when I open up a thread and see your spiel about Flint.
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It's a thread about clean water and you didn't expect somebody to mention flint?
The situation over there is pretty bad, I don't get why it's such a big problem to talk about it. Gotta get your marks in to complain about the resident black guy, eh?
Ceist:
--- Quote from: Rally on March 02, 2017, 12:58:48 AM ---I don't get it. The water quality in Flint was tested to be safe like 4 days after Annoying Orange was sworn into office. What is he supposed to do? Funnel another 5 million dollars into a glorified pipe replacement program? Flint isn't Annoying Orange's problem
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the water source isn't the issue in flint, it is indeed the pipes that need to be replaced. the water you're gonna get from the source is much safer than the water you'd be getting from the tap.
Rally:
--- Quote from: Ceist on March 02, 2017, 03:14:29 AM ---the water source isn't the issue in flint, it is indeed the pipes that need to be replaced. the water you're gonna get from the source is much safer than the water you'd be getting from the tap.
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There are 5000+ more systems in America still using the same lead pipes that flint uses. We've been using them forever without issue. The poor water quality was caused by MDEQ when they told FWTP to stop maintaining corrosion inhibition. The issue has since been fixed, the people responsible went to court, and the lead levels have returned to safe levels.
The lead pipes are being replaced, because it's a good idea, not because they're still poisoning people. If the pipes were to blame, you'd have a lot more problems than 100,000 people. You'd be looking at closer to 10,000,000 people nationally.
Decepticon:
the local gov. decided it would be a good idea to switch to a cheaper water supplier with stuff water quality which just ruined the pipes and causing near-irreversible damage. even if they switched to good water, it's still forgeted, the pipes needing to be replaced at a great expense (though i haven't kept too much of an eye on the situation so they may have already did this)
it's not just the water that's the massive problem with the town, you know what they do there? murder, rape, sell some drugs, murder some more, and then collect food stamps
flint's paying the price for their own political corruption and the absolutely forgeted state of their stuffty local government. no tax base, corruption everywhere, no efficiency. they get rich off the money that they SHOULD be investing infrastructure and they just end up causing massive suffering and death when they amass the political leverage to remain in charge, it's the same all over the world
forget that place