Flint's water issues

[tschandler]

It is telling the blame around here is directed as Snyder not the actual officials in control of the issue including the EPA. 

[tschandler]

It is telling the blame around here is directed as Snyder not the actual officials in control of the issue including the EPA. 

Oh yeah, the lower down people are easy targets, and are probably packing their desks as we speak. But in such a disaster you have to look at the culture that allowed it to happen, and people at the top have to take the fall. It's why Chung Hong-won resigned after the Sewol and why the Latvian government resigned after the Zolitūde shopping centre collapse: although they didn't directly cause the disasters, they tolerated a system of neglect that allowed such a thing to happen. In this case, a huge amount of Michigan officials appear to have been complicit in obscuring, fudging and evading data. The fact that his EM did it was a blunder. The fact that Michigan tried to cover up their mistakes is unforgivable, and an indictment of the Governor's management.

The culture?  Flint is in debt because of the GOP? 

[tschandler]

It posits that if the Governor manages to pick some sort of individual superman he will magically restore what is an unworkable solution. No need for democratic accountability! Because he is the magicman! Nothing can go wrong!

Well, word is Snyder got a hold of a coveted money tree seed and dispatched his finest operative to Flint as an Emergency Manager, to oversee the growth of said money tree. Unfortunately, the lead water killed it.

So I guess we'll never know...

Except you know this was touted as a stimulus/jobs program.  And its a failure of central planning but we are going to sit around and pretend its a failure of markets or austerity.