Carl, I have said many times capitalism is on life support and we need to pull
the plug. But when whatever GOP flunkie becomes president and names Snider head
of the EPA we have only ourselves to blame.
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Sanders does not go far enough. He needs to check in with Michael Moore, and
support demands that those responsible for this tragic decision come before a
judge and jury.
This is a fine example of how Greed takes over rational thought. No "right
thinking" person would put little children, elderly and disabled and indeed,
every man, woman and child, in harms way by polluting their public water. This
is the wet dream of every Terrorist. Contaminate an entire cities water system
and cause long term health problems. What a way to bring down an enemy.
Without firing a single shot, without losing a single warrior, a mighty nation
can be beaten into substandard existence. And to think! It was done to us by
America's own Citizens.
Greed, my friends. Greed is our real enemy. Greed must be hunted down and
destroyed before it destroys us all. But Greed is often disguised, and fools
us into thinking we are dealing with normal, rational people. It is well past
time that we change our basic values and declare open war on Greed. Human
Respect, and respect for all life on our planet should be our driving force.
We have been mesmerized by Greed, believing that our lives would be better if
we had all the gold, bobbles and bangles that are dangled before our eyes. We
have too long listened to the lies fanned by Greed, through our Masters, the
Ruling Class. But at a closer look, this Ruling Class is being led down the
same path to self destruction as are we.
Unless we Citizens of the World find a way of living with our Planet Earth,
instead of raping and plundering her, we will all go down.
It is still not too late. But Greed is relentless and never lets up the
pressure. Religious folk call Greed, Satan. Some folk prefer, Lust. But
whatever name it goes under, Greed is still our number one enemy.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/17/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Another reason to vote for Sanders?
Joe
Sanders: Snyder should resign over Flint water crisis Chad Livengood,
Detroit News Lansing Bureau Democratic presidential candidate and
Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders said Saturday that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should resign
over Flint's lead-contaminated water supply, calling it "one of the
worst public health
crises in the modern history of this country. In an exclusive
interview Saturday with The Detroit News, Sanders said Snyder's
multiple apologies for his
administration allowing Flint water to go untreated for preventing
corrosion of lead-soldered pipes "is just not good enough. "And I
think the governor
has got to take the responsibility and say, 'You know what, my
administration was absolutely negligent and a result of that
negligence, many children may
suffer for the rest of their lives and the right thing to do is to resign,'"
Sanders said in a telephone interview from Vermont. State health
officials
have confirmed 43 cases of elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint
residents, who complained since April 2014 that the brownish Flint
River smelled
and caused rashes. Lead can cause irreversible brain and developmental
damage in children and infants who ingest it through water or
lead-based paint.
"What we are looking at in Flint is one of the worst public health
crises in the modern history of this country," Sanders said. "We don't
know what the
exact outcome will be, but thousands of children have been poisoned.
And the poisoning may have long-term impacts of their health and the
future of their
lives. A spokesman for Snyder said Saturday that the Republican
governor is focused on securing federal aid to assist Flint residents
and government institutions
in the recovering after he declared a state of emergency in Genesee
County on Jan. 4 and deployed the National Guard to Flint this week to
assist in distributing
bottled water and filters. "The best thing for the people of Flint is
that every effort is focused on solving this emergency, getting the
aid needed to
help the residents, and ensuring that clean drinkable water is
restored to the city," Snyder press secretary Dave Murray said
Saturday in an email to The
Detroit News. "Political statements and finger pointing from political
candidates not involved in finding solutions for Flint, only serve to
distract from
solving this crisis. Sanders is a close race in the early voting
states of Iowa and New Hampshire against Democratic presidential
frontrunner Hillary Clinton,
who has been sharply critical this week of Snyder's handling of
Flint's water crisis. In October, Snyder secured $6 million in state
funding to pay half
of the cost to switch Flint back to Detroit's Lake Huron water source.
The Flint-based Mott Foundation donated $4 million and Flint had to
chip in $2 million
toward the cost. Sanders said the state-appointed emergency manager
money-saving use of Flint River water was shortsighted given the
long-term damage caused
to Flint's water pipeline and residents' health. "It just tells me
that we have a lot of these anti-government folks running
administrations all over this
country who could care less about the well being of our children,
whether it's in education, whether it's in health, whether it's
environmentally,"
Sanders
said. "It's just unacceptable. "You don't save money while poisoning
our children, that is is not acceptable. Sanders noted Flint is a
majority African
American city whose residents "don't have a whole lot of money. "It's
an outrage and it's unacceptable and I think the governor has got to
accept this
responsibility and do the right thing, and that is to resign," Sanders
told The News. Snyder has apologized for the state Department of
Environmental Quality's
mistakes in not requiring Flint to add a chemical to the river water
that helps prevent corrosion. "I think the resignation would show that
he really understands
the extent of the crisis that he caused," Sanders said. Snyder has
said he didn't become aware of elevated lead levels in the blood of
Flint residents
until Oct. 1, even after his office quietly coordinated in August the
distribution of 1,500 faucet filters that remove lead from water.
Sanders was traveling
Saturday from Vermont to South Carolina for Sunday night's Democratic
presidential debate with Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
The independent
Vermont senator, who is a democratic-socialist but votes with
Democrats in the U.S. Senate, said he wasn't weighing in on Flint's
crisis just because Clinton
has been all week. "It's not Sen. Clinton ... it's not a question of
compelled, it's a question of understanding that when you have a
crisis of this proportion,
it's absolutely imperative that the governor accept his
responsibility, show the people of Flint and Michigan that he does
appreciate the calamity that
he caused and has the courage to the right thing, which is step down,"
Sanders said. clivengood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (517) 371-3660
Twitter.com/ChadLivengood
