An update on my prior diary concerning the poisoned water in Flint, MI.  A few days ago the “business savvy” Governor Snyder begged President Obama to declare an emergency for the City of Flint MI.  As if the water was a natural disaster and not the incompetent, corrupt, and penny pinching actions of Snyder and his gang of anti-government crooks.

AMERICANS WTF UP.  

Government run like a business means Love Canals, Pintos, mine explosions, toxic pharmaceutical meds, etc.  Businesses cut cost corners with as little regard for the health and safety of workers and the public and impacts on the enviroment as they can get away with.  Always have.  Alway will.  And they call it efficiency until a chemical fertilizer plant blows up.  Then it’s “who could have predicted?”

The measures of goo-goo are not those of business — although they may share some simililarities because they both have missions to organize the delivery of something to people.  For business it’s to the people that can afford whatever.  For government it’s to all the people.  Basic rights of safety and health for the people.  It was decided a long time ago in this country that safe, clean, and affordable water is a basic right.  (And there are businesses out there today that are itching to take over the public utility of water.  If they succeed, it won’t be as safe or clean and it will cost more.  More will be denied any at all.)

Today, President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration for Flint, MI.

“The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in Genesee County,”

It’s not always easy to remember that we are one nation.  And when any community or large numbers of people are suffering and in need that, we together take care of that need first.  However, there must always be follow-up.  If there are people that are responsible for a disaster, they must and should be held to account.  It’s galling that the people of Michigan that voted in Snyder and his gang, not once but twice, will unfortunately get a pass.  Just as the voters for GWB get a pass on the war they wanted and pass the trillion dollars in costs to those that didn’t vote for GWB and opposed his folly.

Will Snyder, Inc. get bankster treatment or the law coming down on them like a ton of bricks that is familiar to all too many for a minor infraction?

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