Posted on 09/27/2016 10:53:24 AM PDT by MichCapCon
A few years before Flint’s lead crisis, city officials were taking money from a dedicated municipal water fund to pay for other uses. These fund-raids continued — using water service revenues to pay for unrelated city spending — even as the water fund accumulated a $9 million deficit in 2011.
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which party controlled the city council then?
You get what you vote for
Think I heard that the House of Representatives had a Flint bill to discuss or pass. Are the tax payers going to have to pay for Flint MI?
A problem of no oversight over spending, a problem in many cities. People need to go to jail, but they get a pass. Meanwhile, funds get diverted away from maintenance and then municipal authorities beg voters to pass bonds to repair crucial infrastructure. Then the bond money is diverted and spent elsewhere while infrastructure continues to crumble. Rinse, repeat, over and over, abusing taxpayer money.
Shovel ready jobs? Where did the funds go?
Well, the money to pay their cousins had to come from somewhere.
Really?
Most of the areas around Flint are rather nice but Flint it's self is a slightly less corrupt Detroit without the Red Wings.
Municipal officials here aren't allowed to take these water funds and use them for anything else. If they did, they could go to jail.
Article doesn't say whether the practice is illegal in Michigan. Have any Flint officials gone to jail for "raiding" the water funds, as the article puts it?
I have performed hundreds of hours of research into Flint for one of the chapters in my book.
There are 3 takeaways I have for this article:
1. The cash diversion from Water was addressed by the so-called Shears decision ordered by Judge Hayman 08/07/2015, ordering that $15.7 million be paid back to the water fund. If the court didn’t address all the wrong-doing, it’s business as usual in corrupt MI.
2. Marc Edwards cites the proximate cause as the ‘failure to add corrosion control treatment to the water’, yet his OWN STUDY found that the addition of CCT to the river water would have had a marginal effect and would NOT have prevented lead leaching.
3. Edwards is parroting the UN/SJW theme of ‘water is a human right’. Uh-huh. Ok. /s
The author’s writing is nonsensical, serving no other purpose but to keep inflaming emotion on an issue far too inflamed. Flint wasn’t about party politics or any of the other BS parroted in the MSM: It was a failure of government, top-to-bottom, starting with the EPA...the elephant in the room that got off scott-free.
Nothing reported in the media is accurate about Flint, with very, very few exceptions and none hitting all the nails on the head.
>>Nothing reported in the media is accurate about Flint, with very, very few exceptions and none hitting all the nails on the head.
Sounds about right. The general innumeracy of the media typically results in very poor reporting on anything having technical aspects. Then add in the general Leftist slant on anything, and you have the likelihood of lying by omission/commission to protect Dems. Finally, you have the drive to stir up controversy for eyeballs vs. reporting the facts, since eyeballs pay the bills.
Journalism is in a sad state in this country, for sure.
Flint’s problem is a local problem and I have a hard time letting them have federal tax payers money. A loan is OK, but not a grant. Don’t reward people for mismanagement and fraud.
Flint’s problem is a local problem and I have a hard time letting them have federal tax payers money. A loan is OK, but not a grant. Don’t reward people for mismanagement and fraud.
Flint’s problem is a local problem and I have a hard time letting them have federal tax payers money. A loan is OK, but not a grant. Don’t reward people for mismanagement and fraud.
Flint’s problem is a local problem and I have a hard time letting them have federal tax payers money. A loan is OK, but not a grant. Don’t reward people for mismanagement and fraud.
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