Pic Of The Moment: Poisoned Drinking Water: Now 30% Off!

[EarlG]

Michigan Governor Says Flint Residents Should Get a Discount on Toxic Water

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[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[trof]

2. POISON at bargain prices.

That's SO republican.

[litlbilly]

21. and if you act now, a free bowl of soup

[tclambert]

43. Well, they're trying to run government like a business. So they have to squeeze some money

out of the people. You don't expect them to provide poison for free, do you?

[corkhead]

3. According to him "government failed" not the pukes that gerrymandered a stranglehold on our state

I will never understand why anyone would vote for a candidate who runs on "government can't do anything right, elect me and I will prove it to you."

[bulloney]

39. I've been saying that for years, corkhead.

If you're running a business and you're interviewing candidates for a job in your business, and if you interviewed someone who says something along the line of, "I don't believe in your business. I think your business is ineffective and inferior. If you hire me, I will do everything to assure that your business is ineffective and inferior."

Who would hire a candidate who gives answers like that in the interview?

But that's what happens any time these local, state and federal elections take place and they elect the candidate that campaigns on government being inherently bad and wrong. But these same clowns make a career of holding that office and leaching the taxpayer money that pays for that position.

[lame54]

4. Physical and mental damage for decades and all they get is a fucking coupon

[Mendocino]

5. I guess there is more than one thing

lethal and worthless in Michigan than the water.

[raouldukelives]

6. Best representation corporate investors can subsidize. nt

[BlueJazz]

7. But they do include a special filter with the 30% coupon.

[Initech]

25. Alex Jones should be hawking his crazy expensive water filters to Flint.

Hell I'm surprised if he hasn't jumped on this opportunity already.

[Cyrano]

8. Terrorism by another name is

a governor and state Republicans poisoning an entire city.

And the vast majority of the people in Flint don't have the means to move elsewhere.

If given full power in Washington, this is the type of thing the Republican Party will do to the entire country.

Governor Snyder has demonstrated why the GOP is a clear and present danger.

[tclambert]

42. If ISIS jihadists had poured toxic chemicals into an American city's water supply, we'd bomb them,

torture them, special rendition them, start a war with the wrong country, and eventually send SEAL Team Six to deal with their leader. So why don't we send SEAL Team Six after Governor Snyder?

[rladdi]

9. Why is Governor Snyder resisting replacing the pipes and water system in Flint? WHY?

He has the money to do this immediately. Why do voters keep electing criminal Republicans to office, knowing they will get screwed.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. The pipes aren't lead...

the solder joining them is. There is an additive you add to the water that keeps the lead in the solder from leeching out. Most cities older than 1970 or so uses this stuff, since they have the cast pipes and lead solder. How much does this stuff cost? In Flint's case it would come out to $9000 for a 3 month supply. That is right- only 9 thousand dollars. They are not foregoing the use of this to save money. They want a catastrophe so they can say "public works are broken, we have to have private industry 'save' us". They are purposely injuring and killing people in order to privatize something that should never be privatized.

[yuiyoshida]

10. wow...

can you believe the audacity of some Republicans?

[rladdi]

11. Voters continue to elect these people who only mission is to screw the state and the people.

When will the voters get smart? WHEN? And right now it taking a gang of Republicans to run for President, hoping one of them will get elected. ALL of them are criminals in what they will do to America and its people

[stage left]

32. I'd like to know that, too.

Why?

[jberryhill]

12. To be fair, it was more than 70% water

So, that's pretty generous from that perspective.

[2naSalit]

26. Are they attempting to

recover market value of the mineral/chemical content of the water?

[jberryhill]

27. Good point. Lead costs MORE than water

If Snyder had any sense, he'd add a surcharge.

[2naSalit]

29. Heh

I know, right?

Gosh, I'm not into hatred but these guys seem to insist on being hated, like that little POS in a Congressional hearing today... he really enjoys being hated. I'm not there yet but I've been experiencing temporary lapses in judgement at times and fantasize about means of punishment that would be acceptable to darth cheney lately.

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. I'm sticking with my tinfoil hat theory

this was step 3 in the Koch experiment.

1- destroy unions in Wisconsin with ScottyBoy Walker

2- radically alter taxes for the rich and corporations in Kansas with Brownback

3- test controlling population growth in an area nobody notices - Michigan with Snyder

[turbinetree]

15. Couldn't have said it any better----------------and ....................

just look at what this right wing Congress did today with HR 766------------------

They just made it harder for you and me, the taxpayers to go after banks and any other firms, people that commit financial crimes ----------------------------its like there are Congressional representatives saying that its ok to rip people off-----------because we just made it harder to prosecute you for doing criminal behavior go ahead, do it----------------------now give me bribe money for my re-election campaign ------------------------amazing



Lets see how many MSM shows report this little law they just passed




Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[stage left]

14. K&R

Why is this grinning *&!!! not under arrest? I thought he was getting arrested yesterday.

[catbyte]

23. Nothing will happen. The shithead is term limited, and the Republicans have made it impossible

to recall politicians (a despicable little law they passed in 2011 after my fellow Democrats threw a tantrum in 2010 and stayed home, thus making these assholes the majority party in the legislature & governor's office. To them I say a big fat FUCK YOU, too.) He will retire to his McMansion in Ann Arbor to live a life of luxury, or get an awesome job with some lobbying outfit. He deserves to be frog marched to jail, then thrown into Jackson State Prison for a few decades, but he won't be penalized in the slightest. Fuck, he wasn't even called to testify in front of Congress.

[Helen Borg]

16. SALE!!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO!

[daleanime]

17. Before they fix the problem with the water....

they need to store enough of it for Gov. Snyder's personal use for the rest of his life.

[3catwoman3]

18. If I didn't know better, I'd think this...

...is a joke, albeit a bad one. Completely outrageous.

[czarjak]

19. Time for W's solution to kick in...

"Faith-based organizations will step forward."

[catbyte]

20. As a completely fed up and outraged citizen of Michigan,

I'd like to extend a great big FUCK YOU to my fellow citizens who re-elected this miserable POS. He is the most despicable politician I can think of, and with the current crop of Republicans, that's saying something. He is a liar and a bagger in moderate's clothing. He belongs in prison, but nothing will happen to him whatsoever.

[MADem]

22. What horseshit. They ought to run the entire water supply through firehoses until they

fix this mess.

[Initech]

24. Poisoned water! Get your poison while its' nice and poisony! Now 30% off!

[tavernier]

28. If ever a man needed hangin'

[2naSalit]

30. I'm glad

you said that and not me... but I'm with you there.

[byronius]

31. I am not a death penalty proponent

but you got a point.

[valerief]

33. Rick Snyder is a flaming, pus-weeping asshole.

[livingonearth]

34. 30% off!!!!

Wow these pukes are good, always doing the right thing. .

[PatrickforO]

35. Lower their bill????

Not only should these victims not even be paying for this contaminated water, they should be reimbursed by Michigan for being victimized by Republican cost cutting procedures AND have free healthcare the rest of their lives.

[Angry Dragon]

36. He should be made to drink the water until it is safe

WHAT AN ASS

[Bill USA]

37. SUCH a deal!!! recommended!!

[WinkyDink]

38. The Onion, right?

[RoccoR5955]

41. They should make him and his family drink the water

while he's in jail for life!

[Chisox08]

44. Snyder should be forced to drink and bathe in Flint's water until everything is fixed.

Why are they forcing people to pay for water that they cannot even use? This man is pure fucking evil.

[LovingA2andMI]

45. Thanks for this Earl G....

Using at our Blog (with Credit) and our outright DEPLORABLE Governor Rick Snyder is practicing STRAIGHT UP GENOCIDE with the People of Flint!

#RICKSNYDERMUSTGETOUT of OUR HOUSE, THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN'S HOUSE!!

Thank you again, as this Meme is PERFECT!

[Feeling the Bern]

46. Carcinogens and lead to rot your mind (literally) for 30% off. We won't do shit about it

But we'll charge you less so you have more money to pay doctors for inoperable tumors!

You fucking vote for Republicans, you get Republican policies! WI, MI, OH, NJ, MD, ME, FL . . . have you been beaten enough, or so you still just sit there any take it? Fucking vote these cocksuckers out of office.

[JPZenger]

47. State environmental officials told residents there was no problem, despite evidence

One of the worse elements of this story is that the State Dept. of Environmental Quality publicly told residents there was nothing to worry about, despite there being scientific evidence of the problems from a pediatrician and a Va. Tech. scientist.

I don't know who is to blame for not adding the anti-corrosion chemicals. Those chemicals are commonly used and (as Earl noted) are required under federal regulations.

An EPA official questioned Flint officials about whether the anti-corrosion substances were being used, but the EPA did not specifically follow-through. The Regional Director of the EPA was fired as a result, and new EPA procedures have been established that authorize any EPA employee to publicize public health problems.

My understanding is that the source of the water has been changed, but the lead in the pipes is now leaching into the water regardless of what water flows through the pipes.