Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come...

Republicans have made us so proud...

...anywhere but fucking Michigan, apparently.

Because this is the legacy of the republicans who have held all the power in Michigan over the last eight years:  the state of Michigan poisoned the water of thousands of children in Flint and it is currently embroiled, in the Larry Nasser child molestation at Michigan St., in the biggest sex scandal in American history.

The next time any republican in Michigan says anything about protecting our children from anything, I think the rest of us should be allowed to give them a boot to the head.

Or even two.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

This is what happens when you vote republican, Part I

Well lookee here:  seems that in Michigan, after our republican leaders poisoned Flint's children in an effort to "save" money, amid new allegations that a veteran's home which was privatized wasn't providing quite the same care as the union nurses Governor Snyder's minions fired, and the maggot infested food that Aramark (contracted by--who else? our republican leaders) fed to the state's prisoners, some republicans, off the record, are admitting that perhaps running the state of Michigan like a business hasn't worked out all that well.

Ya think?

I've said it before and I'll say it many more times until enough people stop believing republicans' bullshit free market mantra:  There is absolutely nothing the government can do that the private sector can't do a lot worse while charging us a lot more money.

Peace,
emaycee

You break it, you buy it

Predictably, republicans in Michigan have begun trying to find someone/anyone to blame for their utter ineptitude in response to the water crisis in Flint.  They're trying to blame the Flint City Council (good luck with that--ninety percent of the journalists in Michigan covering the crisis have already refuted it--and the 10% who haven't are republican trolls).  They're also attempting to blame the EPA, and while the EPA response was not perfect, the vast majority of the blame belongs to Gov. Snyder and his "team."

What interests me most about this is republicans all too familiar tactic of trying to deflect blame from their failed policies.  They're all about personal accountability (especially with regard to America's social safety net) until it comes to themselves.  Listen:  if you preach and want limited government than fucking own it when your amateur hour worldview fails.  And make no mistake, the republican failure in the Flint water crisis is a direct result of their limited government policies.

They wanted to save money and walk away, but it's not so simple when you poison children in the process.

Peace,
emaycee

They really don't care

At the end of Sunday's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton sent some serious (and deserved) venom toward Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's handling of the water crisis and the poisoning of children in Flint, saying that Gov. Snyder "...acted as though he didn't really care."

News flash:  He isn't acting.

The candidate currently running third nationally in the republican primary circus, Marco Rubio, admitted that he hasn't been briefed on one of the nation's biggest stories of the past month, but was still pretty certain in his ignorance that the federal government should butt out.

And this is and has been the republican M.O. since Ronald Reagan was elected in the 1980's--an utter lack of empathy combined with a complete lack of understanding concerning ordinary Americans.  And the poisoning of children in Flint, Michigan is just the logical outcome of their core philosophy.

If you aren't white and wealthy, they really just don't care about you.

Peace,
emaycee

Water everywhere and not a drop to drink (safely)

I live about a half hour south of the city of Flint, Michigan which this week had to declare a state of emergency because the number of children in their city with above average levels of lead in their bloodstream has doubled since 2014 when the state of Michigan switched their source of water to the Flint River, from it's original source, the city of Detroit.  Flint's mayor, Karen Weaver, is declaring the emergency in the hope of getting federal funding to help with the developmental issues that are sure to rise in Flint's children in the years ahead.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, in typical republican fashion, has already begun blaming the victims, as a spokesman released a statement this week saying the water was safe but the problems are arising because of lead in certain citizens' water pipes--without ever explaining what exactly it was that caused the lead in their pipes to suddenly appear in their water after the changeover to the Flint River, but not when the water was coming from Detroit.  A lawsuit has been filed alleging that Snyder and his minions knew about the toxicity in the water before the switch but went ahead with it anyway.  Considering that Snyder hired a private contractor that served food infested with maggots (among other creatures) to Michigan prisoners, it doesn't come as much of a surprise.  An old businessman himself, Snyder knows that in today's Michigan, profits come before people.

In the end, though, one wonders how much longer we as a nation can afford to tolerate republicans' disdain for spending the money necessary to improve our dilapidated infrastructure.  It's hard to not believe that this tragedy in Flint could not have been prevented with the proper care of both the Flint River and its water system.

But that's the republicans world--if poisoning our children is the price we pay for tax cuts for millionaires, so be it.

Peace,
emaycee