...the people of Flint repeatedly asked for help and were ignored by state government. As Hillary has said, this would not have happened in a wealthy community."Flint *was* a wealthy community, thanks to the auto industry, but they spent every cent on oversized cars, too many freeways, and graft. By wealthy, the speaker must have meant "black", but didn't want to come right out and say that, in order to make this look like a haves/havenots phony baloney scenario, instead of a race card phony baloney scenario -- because she doesn't want this to seem like the pandering and racist panhandling that it is. The Demagogic Party ran Flint (indeed, much of the state) for the better part of a century, and all the officials running the emergency mgmt have been Democrats.