Democrats and their wiley little ways, anyone shocked by this......NO!!
THE DEMOCRATS FILTHY FLINT WATER
Dirty politics lead to dirty water.
January 21, 2016 Daniel Greenfield
Mayor Dayne Walling, a Democrat, led a cheerful countdown at the Flint water treatment plant to press the button moving the city over to river water. Walling and Darnell Earley, the Democratic emergency manager, even raised glasses in a toast and drank the water to show that it was safe.
Its a historic moment for the city of Flint to return to its roots and use our own river as our drinking water supply, Walling said. The water quality speaks for itself.
Flints city council had v**ed in favor of the move 7-1. Despite claims about the power of the emergency manager, the switch could not have gone forward without that v**e.
Even once the problem had surfaced, the EPA knew and kept quiet. It was only once the crisis broke, that the Democratic establishment attempted to redirect the blame at Michigans efforts to fix broken Democratic cities like Flint using emergency managers. The war against the emergency managers is not about clean water; its about protecting the dirty Democratic politics that destroyed these cities.
Flints dirty water had its origins in dirty politics. The Democratic Party had badly mismanaged the city.
Flint was trying to cut costs, but not in the right place. Water rates were already murderously high, because around 40 percent of the citys water was leaking out or being stolen. Water theft is routine in failed Democratic cities like Flint. And the thefts often come from the inside.
Warren Southall II, a Flint city employee, illegally turned on water in exchange for bribes. Last year he was fined, but would not serve any jail time. Illegal water hookups are everywhere. Residents who have their water turned off can always find ways to get it turned back on again. The cost gets passed on to those who pay their bills. And the rates go up and more residents run away.
From 2002 to 2010, Flints population declined by 18%. The poverty rate encompasses over a third of the population. Barely half the city works. The second largest employer in Flint is government. The third and fourth largest employers, healthcare and education, are heavily government subsidized.
Flint is a failed city. Its what happens when Democrats run a city into the ground by driving away jobs and pandering to unions. Eventually the union contracts make a citys finances unfeasible and the cycle of tax hikes, union contracts, unfunded pensions, welfare protests, junk bond sales and then crisis management and privatization takes its toll. That is exactly what happened in Flint.
Flint got deep into trouble because of its unions. The city has been desperately struggling to privatize as much of its services as it can, wiping out union jobs to protect union retirement benefits, and then cutting services to cover for a growing deadbeat population that wants services, but doesnt want to pay for them. And the simple fact of life is that somebody has to pay for clean water. Or it wont be clean.
It wasnt corporations or big business that made it impossible for Flint to pay its bills. It wasnt Rick Snyder. It was Flint residents who kept v****g for ridiculously incompetent Democrats.
Flint, like Detroit, needed emergency managers because the Democratic Party had destroyed entire cities. And it is those emergency managers, who are often African-American Democrats even when appointed by Republicans, who are being used to pass all the blame on to Governor Rick Snyder.
But they are leaving out a whole lot of history along the way.
In 2002, Woodrow Stanley, the three-term Democratic Party mayor, was removed from office by angry v**ers due to a $30 million deficit. He didnt accept the blame for the disaster. Instead he blamed r****m.
The stench of r****m that reeks [from] this e******n will linger in the nostrils of this community for decades," Stanley said. In reality, plenty of black v**ers had turned out to drive him out of office.
After a state takeover put Flint back in the black, Woodrow I Blame R****m Stanley faced off against Don The Don Williamson, a convicted criminal and car dealer. The Don won and running for ree******n, he told residents that, "I don't lie to nobody! The city is the most solvent in the state of Michigan."
Flint was as solvent as Detroit. In reality there was a $4 million deficit. Williamson was accused of lying about the deficit to get reelected. Around that same time, Time named Flint the most dangerous city in America. After a threatened recall e******n, Williamson resigned and decided to run for governor as a Democrat while claiming, "I'm going to go down as the greatest mayor this city has ever had."
Governor Jennifer Granholm had unleashed the disaster by signing an executive order ending the state of emergency in Flint and claiming that, The citizens of Flint can take great satisfaction in that the financial cloud that has lingered over the city has been lifted.
I expect the city to remain on sound financial footing into the future, the failed Michigan politician, who would enjoy a brief career working for Al Gores ultra-l*****t Current TV before losing her job due to the Al Jazeera sale, claimed.
Flints real problem is that it had far too many expenses, far too many employees and no money. Like Detroit, it was another failed Democratic city that residents were fleeing as fast as they could. The only people left behind had no option to move anywhere else. They wanted services, but they werent paying taxes. Income tax revenue in Flint fell by almost a third in four years.
Flint needed its emergency managers; it had to drastically cut costs, because it couldnt pay its bills. It wasnt the Republican governor who made Flint into a financially unviable proposition.
The attempts to blame Rick Snyder for putting an emergency manager in charge are cynical Democratic politics. And the emergency manager in charge, Darnell Earley, was a Woodrow Stanley loyalist and a Democrat. He had at one point even been a Granholm appointee.
Flints last emergency manager, Jerry Ambrose correctly pointed out, Theres just a point in time theres just not enough gas in the tank. Theres just not enough revenue from the local taxpayers to solve the problems that are here. The question is who is going to be on the hook to pay the bills?
Democrats want to annex suburbs and d**g them into paying the bills for failed cities. These ideas find favor within the White House. But that just widens the sphere of economic destruction. It encourages people to flee even further to escape the economic event horizon of disasters like Flint and Detroit.
And it avoids the moral question of whether the innocent should be forced to bail out the guilty.
The left reduces such questions to matters of pure entitlement. Everything is a right. But the Flint disaster shows the practical cost of entitlement. In the end there is still a bill. And when the bills arent being paid, then cities will find ways to cut costs that carry with them their own price.
How many of the Flint protesters waving yellow water bottles were paying their water bills? How many had subsidized water? How many had illegal water hookups? How many had v**ed for Democrats?
Socialism works until you run out of other peoples money. And thats when the death panels kick in. Its when your electricity stops being reliable, the cops dont show up when called and your water stops being clean. Theres no way to escape these simple economic facts of life.
Democrats turned Flint into a deadbeat city. A deadbeat city with high crime, high rates of structure fires, lots of potholes and failing services. Flint, Detroit, Newark, Oakland, Chicago and a hundred other failed and failing cities are their handiwork. And as long as their residents continue v****g for the same party that made this mess, their lives and their services will only get worse.
Flints dirty water originated with its dirty Democratic Party overlords. Blaming Republicans wont clean it up.
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Democrats and their wiley little ways, anyone shocked by this......NO!!
THE DEMOCRATS FILTHY FLINT WATER
Dirty politics lead to dirty water.
January 21, 2016 Daniel Greenfield
Mayor Dayne Walling, a Democrat, led a cheerful countdown at the Flint water treatment plant to press the button moving the city over to river water. Walling and Darnell Earley, the Democratic emergency manager, even raised glasses in a toast and drank the water to show that it was safe.
Its a historic moment for the city of Flint to return to its roots and use our own river as our drinking water supply, Walling said. The water quality speaks for itself.
Flints city council had v**ed in favor of the move 7-1. Despite claims about the power of the emergency manager, the switch could not have gone forward without that v**e.
Even once the problem had surfaced, the EPA knew and kept quiet. It was only once the crisis broke, that the Democratic establishment attempted to redirect the blame at Michigans efforts to fix broken Democratic cities like Flint using emergency managers. The war against the emergency managers is not about clean water; its about protecting the dirty Democratic politics that destroyed these cities.
Flints dirty water had its origins in dirty politics. The Democratic Party had badly mismanaged the city.
Flint was trying to cut costs, but not in the right place. Water rates were already murderously high, because around 40 percent of the citys water was leaking out or being stolen. Water theft is routine in failed Democratic cities like Flint. And the thefts often come from the inside.
Warren Southall II, a Flint city employee, illegally turned on water in exchange for bribes. Last year he was fined, but would not serve any jail time. Illegal water hookups are everywhere. Residents who have their water turned off can always find ways to get it turned back on again. The cost gets passed on to those who pay their bills. And the rates go up and more residents run away.
From 2002 to 2010, Flints population declined by 18%. The poverty rate encompasses over a third of the population. Barely half the city works. The second largest employer in Flint is government. The third and fourth largest employers, healthcare and education, are heavily government subsidized.
Flint is a failed city. Its what happens when Democrats run a city into the ground by driving away jobs and pandering to unions. Eventually the union contracts make a citys finances unfeasible and the cycle of tax hikes, union contracts, unfunded pensions, welfare protests, junk bond sales and then crisis management and privatization takes its toll. That is exactly what happened in Flint.
Flint got deep into trouble because of its unions. The city has been desperately struggling to privatize as much of its services as it can, wiping out union jobs to protect union retirement benefits, and then cutting services to cover for a growing deadbeat population that wants services, but doesnt want to pay for them. And the simple fact of life is that somebody has to pay for clean water. Or it wont be clean.
It wasnt corporations or big business that made it impossible for Flint to pay its bills. It wasnt Rick Snyder. It was Flint residents who kept v****g for ridiculously incompetent Democrats.
Flint, like Detroit, needed emergency managers because the Democratic Party had destroyed entire cities. And it is those emergency managers, who are often African-American Democrats even when appointed by Republicans, who are being used to pass all the blame on to Governor Rick Snyder.
But they are leaving out a whole lot of history along the way.
In 2002, Woodrow Stanley, the three-term Democratic Party mayor, was removed from office by angry v**ers due to a $30 million deficit. He didnt accept the blame for the disaster. Instead he blamed r****m.
The stench of r****m that reeks [from] this e******n will linger in the nostrils of this community for decades," Stanley said. In reality, plenty of black v**ers had turned out to drive him out of office.
After a state takeover put Flint back in the black, Woodrow I Blame R****m Stanley faced off against Don The Don Williamson, a convicted criminal and car dealer. The Don won and running for ree******n, he told residents that, "I don't lie to nobody! The city is the most solvent in the state of Michigan."
Flint was as solvent as Detroit. In reality there was a $4 million deficit. Williamson was accused of lying about the deficit to get reelected. Around that same time, Time named Flint the most dangerous city in America. After a threatened recall e******n, Williamson resigned and decided to run for governor as a Democrat while claiming, "I'm going to go down as the greatest mayor this city has ever had."
Governor Jennifer Granholm had unleashed the disaster by signing an executive order ending the state of emergency in Flint and claiming that, The citizens of Flint can take great satisfaction in that the financial cloud that has lingered over the city has been lifted.
I expect the city to remain on sound financial footing into the future, the failed Michigan politician, who would enjoy a brief career working for Al Gores ultra-l*****t Current TV before losing her job due to the Al Jazeera sale, claimed.
Flints real problem is that it had far too many expenses, far too many employees and no money. Like Detroit, it was another failed Democratic city that residents were fleeing as fast as they could. The only people left behind had no option to move anywhere else. They wanted services, but they werent paying taxes. Income tax revenue in Flint fell by almost a third in four years.
Flint needed its emergency managers; it had to drastically cut costs, because it couldnt pay its bills. It wasnt the Republican governor who made Flint into a financially unviable proposition.
The attempts to blame Rick Snyder for putting an emergency manager in charge are cynical Democratic politics. And the emergency manager in charge, Darnell Earley, was a Woodrow Stanley loyalist and a Democrat. He had at one point even been a Granholm appointee.
Flints last emergency manager, Jerry Ambrose correctly pointed out, Theres just a point in time theres just not enough gas in the tank. Theres just not enough revenue from the local taxpayers to solve the problems that are here. The question is who is going to be on the hook to pay the bills?
Democrats want to annex suburbs and d**g them into paying the bills for failed cities. These ideas find favor within the White House. But that just widens the sphere of economic destruction. It encourages people to flee even further to escape the economic event horizon of disasters like Flint and Detroit.
And it avoids the moral question of whether the innocent should be forced to bail out the guilty.
The left reduces such questions to matters of pure entitlement. Everything is a right. But the Flint disaster shows the practical cost of entitlement. In the end there is still a bill. And when the bills arent being paid, then cities will find ways to cut costs that carry with them their own price.
How many of the Flint protesters waving yellow water bottles were paying their water bills? How many had subsidized water? How many had illegal water hookups? How many had v**ed for Democrats?
Socialism works until you run out of other peoples money. And thats when the death panels kick in. Its when your electricity stops being reliable, the cops dont show up when called and your water stops being clean. Theres no way to escape these simple economic facts of life.
Democrats turned Flint into a deadbeat city. A deadbeat city with high crime, high rates of structure fires, lots of potholes and failing services. Flint, Detroit, Newark, Oakland, Chicago and a hundred other failed and failing cities are their handiwork. And as long as their residents continue v****g for the same party that made this mess, their lives and their services will only get worse.
Flints dirty water originated with its dirty Democratic Party overlords. Blaming Republicans wont clean it up.
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Yeah - we've been playing "which party is the worsest party?" game for how long? No one wins. Well, actually, both democrat and republican politicians win every time, but the PEOPLE always lose.
So - enough with the blaming, rationalizing and excuses - lets bring ALL of them to account. Partisan bullsh*t gets us into these messes and NEVER gets us out of them. Justice, that archaic concept, should be blind to party, position, power, wealth and all the rest of that crap. Heads need to roll, not a solitary head.
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Yeah - we've been playing "which party is the worsest party?" game for how long? No one wins. Well, actually, both democrat and republican politicians win every time, but the PEOPLE always lose.
So - enough with the blaming, rationalizing and excuses - lets bring ALL of them to account. Partisan bullsh*t gets us into these messes and NEVER gets us out of them. Justice, that archaic concept, should be blind to party, position, power, wealth and all the rest of that crap. Heads need to roll, not a solitary head.
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I am in agreement with you on that, but we know nothing about the political aspect of this issue will be done.....business as usual for them.
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