The Flint Water Crisis is not simply an incompetent Governor, there is a real attitude regarding a punishment to the people of a Michigan city with fiscal issues.
Let's not forget this water crisis was recorded by a major auto manufacturing plant as having this water corrode their engines. People are drinking this water and bathing in it while a car engines are experiencing corrosion. That is something that should alarm the world. The United States of American allowed such water into the water supply to damage the citizens of Flint and permanently effect it's children. Nine thousand children under the age of six.
With millions of dollars US in the Michigan rainy day fund Governor Snyder sees it clear to impose deadly outcomes on the people of Flint for not paying their budget deficit. What would the USA look like if that attitude existed in Washington, DC after the 2016 elections?
Governor Snyder is more than incompetent, he intentionally looked the other way for his war on deficits in African American communities across the state. It was intended for the people of Flint to experience the pain of fiscal deficits in a way they never had before.
A major car company notified the Governor of corroding engines due to water they were exposed to, the State of Michigan employees were told the water is not fit to drink, but, what does Flint get, lead poisoned children. That is not a Governor that cared about these minority communities, it is however a Governor that imposed deadly conditions on a town with a fiscal deficit he saw no reason to address in any other way, including, the states rainy day fund. That is intent, not a mistake.
February 7, 2016
By Niraj Warikoo
Many people (click here) have been asking city, state and federal officials to help in Flint.
Now, some activists want international intervention, asking the United Nations to investigate the water problems in Flint as possible violations of international treaties the U.S. has agreed to.
Last week, activists with the Detroit Water Brigade traveled to New York City to testify about Flint and Detroit before the United Nations' Commission for Social Development at its Civil Society Forum. Afterward, they sent a letter to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations asking it to allow the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to Flint.
"Our message to the United Nations is that we don't have confidence in our government to properly remedy the Flint and Detroit water crisis," said Justin Wedes, cofounder of the water activist group Detroit Water Brigade. "They've shown themselves unwilling and unable to take action urgently to ensure the human right of water for all."...
Let's not forget this water crisis was recorded by a major auto manufacturing plant as having this water corrode their engines. People are drinking this water and bathing in it while a car engines are experiencing corrosion. That is something that should alarm the world. The United States of American allowed such water into the water supply to damage the citizens of Flint and permanently effect it's children. Nine thousand children under the age of six.
With millions of dollars US in the Michigan rainy day fund Governor Snyder sees it clear to impose deadly outcomes on the people of Flint for not paying their budget deficit. What would the USA look like if that attitude existed in Washington, DC after the 2016 elections?
Governor Snyder is more than incompetent, he intentionally looked the other way for his war on deficits in African American communities across the state. It was intended for the people of Flint to experience the pain of fiscal deficits in a way they never had before.
A major car company notified the Governor of corroding engines due to water they were exposed to, the State of Michigan employees were told the water is not fit to drink, but, what does Flint get, lead poisoned children. That is not a Governor that cared about these minority communities, it is however a Governor that imposed deadly conditions on a town with a fiscal deficit he saw no reason to address in any other way, including, the states rainy day fund. That is intent, not a mistake.
February 7, 2016By Niraj Warikoo
Many people (click here) have been asking city, state and federal officials to help in Flint.
Now, some activists want international intervention, asking the United Nations to investigate the water problems in Flint as possible violations of international treaties the U.S. has agreed to.
Last week, activists with the Detroit Water Brigade traveled to New York City to testify about Flint and Detroit before the United Nations' Commission for Social Development at its Civil Society Forum. Afterward, they sent a letter to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations asking it to allow the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to Flint.
"Our message to the United Nations is that we don't have confidence in our government to properly remedy the Flint and Detroit water crisis," said Justin Wedes, cofounder of the water activist group Detroit Water Brigade. "They've shown themselves unwilling and unable to take action urgently to ensure the human right of water for all."...
