March 22, 2016
By Paul Egan
Lansing — A dysfunctional culture (click here) at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality that led to the Flint drinking water crisis was created by Gov. Rick Snyder, the Senate minority leader alleged after a Tuesday meeting of a joint select committee investigating the issue.
Snyder has repeatedly said a culture among "career bureaucrats" that focused on technical compliance with federal and state rules, rather than ensuring that drinking water was safe, was a major reason Flint's drinking water became contaminated with poisonous lead while DEQ officials insisted it was safe to drink.
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, said that culture came from the very top of state government.
“The DEQ changed under Gov. Snyder,” Ananich told reporters after the second meeting of the Joint Select Committee on the Flint Water Public Health Emergency.
Under Snyder, the department “was not mandated to be an enforcement agency, as it should be," Ananich said. "It was more to help people (businesses and other entities) get through the system. … They used this minimalist approach. I believe it was pressure from above. It was a culture change.”...
This is standard Republican strategies to promote profits at any cost. The same dynamics were at work in North Carolina. Every STATE EXPERIMENT is suppose to prove the value of these strategies to the federal government. It hasn't worked yet, but, that doesn't stop them from instituting "Priorities for Profit" at the cost of health or the wealth of the middle class. How many people purchase water today because they don't trust their government to act in their best interest?
On one hand, homeowners pay their property tax and they supplement their own safety by purchasing their own water. Who wins? Profits win.
The USA needs infrastructure, physical and professional. Where is the direction of the country heading? War. If Americans don't make their best interests the height of this election they can kiss their country's infrastructure good bye because every day that goes by and nothing is done the more expensive it gets. EXAMPLE: Flint, Michigan. If the city council and mayor was still making decisions the entire and very, very expensive disaster would never have happened, children would have never been poisoned and they would still be on Detroit water.
I don't know how many times I have to say it, I guess for at least 12 years, the Republicans take their SHORT TERM profits provided by corrupt government and are happy. They have their millions at the cost of the wellness and well being and quality of life of the American people.
WHERE IS THE PIPELINE THAT WILL TIE FLINT BACK INTO THE DETROIT WATER?
WHERE?
In the hands of Snyder's cronies and profiteers. Flint cannot simply turn the valves on for Detroit water because Snyder sold the pipeline to a profiteer. Don't tell me about Republicans, I know about Republicans. They are not good people. They are corrupt right to the core.
The more Americans are distracted by fear the more Republicans score points for diverting the spending of monies on WAR rather than America. We don't need hawks in the White House, they focus on singular problems and singular methods.
By Paul Egan
Lansing — A dysfunctional culture (click here) at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality that led to the Flint drinking water crisis was created by Gov. Rick Snyder, the Senate minority leader alleged after a Tuesday meeting of a joint select committee investigating the issue.
Snyder has repeatedly said a culture among "career bureaucrats" that focused on technical compliance with federal and state rules, rather than ensuring that drinking water was safe, was a major reason Flint's drinking water became contaminated with poisonous lead while DEQ officials insisted it was safe to drink.
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, said that culture came from the very top of state government.
“The DEQ changed under Gov. Snyder,” Ananich told reporters after the second meeting of the Joint Select Committee on the Flint Water Public Health Emergency.
Under Snyder, the department “was not mandated to be an enforcement agency, as it should be," Ananich said. "It was more to help people (businesses and other entities) get through the system. … They used this minimalist approach. I believe it was pressure from above. It was a culture change.”...
This is standard Republican strategies to promote profits at any cost. The same dynamics were at work in North Carolina. Every STATE EXPERIMENT is suppose to prove the value of these strategies to the federal government. It hasn't worked yet, but, that doesn't stop them from instituting "Priorities for Profit" at the cost of health or the wealth of the middle class. How many people purchase water today because they don't trust their government to act in their best interest?
On one hand, homeowners pay their property tax and they supplement their own safety by purchasing their own water. Who wins? Profits win.
The USA needs infrastructure, physical and professional. Where is the direction of the country heading? War. If Americans don't make their best interests the height of this election they can kiss their country's infrastructure good bye because every day that goes by and nothing is done the more expensive it gets. EXAMPLE: Flint, Michigan. If the city council and mayor was still making decisions the entire and very, very expensive disaster would never have happened, children would have never been poisoned and they would still be on Detroit water.
I don't know how many times I have to say it, I guess for at least 12 years, the Republicans take their SHORT TERM profits provided by corrupt government and are happy. They have their millions at the cost of the wellness and well being and quality of life of the American people.
WHERE IS THE PIPELINE THAT WILL TIE FLINT BACK INTO THE DETROIT WATER?
WHERE?
In the hands of Snyder's cronies and profiteers. Flint cannot simply turn the valves on for Detroit water because Snyder sold the pipeline to a profiteer. Don't tell me about Republicans, I know about Republicans. They are not good people. They are corrupt right to the core.
The more Americans are distracted by fear the more Republicans score points for diverting the spending of monies on WAR rather than America. We don't need hawks in the White House, they focus on singular problems and singular methods.
