Trust. How many times did I sit my children on the hearth and lecture
them that Trust, once broken, is so hard to regain.
Whether between husband and wife, parents and children, employees and
employers, or governments and their constituents, trust is the glue
that bonds us together. Sadly, we live in a nation in which the
Ruling Class has spent great effort to break our trust in one another,
our employers and our government. Mistrust is one of the great
weapons the Oligarchy uses against us. They misdirect our mistrust
against those who look or think differently than we do, and against
the very people they helped get elected. Meanwhile the Ruling Class
sit back, safe and secure.
Carl Jarvis
(and by the way, our hearth was a raised hearth, in case someone
thought I made the children sit on the floor)
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Sid C. Booker, 57, has had the lead waterline to his house replaced, but
he is still relying on bottled water for daily needs. “I feel good about
it, that they’re doing something about it, that they’re making some
effort, but feel safe? No,” he said. Credit Brittany Greeson for The New
York Times
FLINT, Mich. — By the sunken standards of life in Flint, Kenneth Glover
is lucky.
Last month, a construction crew arrived at his house, removed the aging,
corroded lead waterline leading up to it and installed a new copper pipe
in its place. His house became one of fewer than 200 in Flint to have
received a new pipe through a city-run program, with thousands more on
the waiting list.
That matters not a whit to Mr. Glover. He still will not drink the water.
“I don’t even give it to my dog,” said Mr. Glover, who works in a
General Motors plant, as he stood outside his home last week. “I don’t
care how many filters they give us. I don’t care what they say. How can
I trust them again?”
It has been one year since officials in Flint urged city residents not
to drink the water.
Since then — as an investigation continues into the failed response at
the city, state and federal levels — the authorities have pointed to
progress in repairing the city’s lead-tainted water system: Water from
the Flint River is no longer used in favor of the city’s former source,
the Detroit system, which gets water from Lake Huron.
The state environmental authority in Michigan said this past week that
more than 90 percent of recent water samples in Flint were below
concerning lead levels.
Yet the fears over using the water have scarcely subsided for Flint
residents. They are deeply suspicious of government officials, who for
much of 2014 and 2015 reassured them that the water flowing from the
Flint River into their taps was perfectly safe, despite its foul odor
and appearance and the way it seemed to be making people sick. Many who
live here are convinced that the water will never be acceptable again.
Richard
