DarkFury
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Yeah, he did BECAUSE he hired a DEMOCRAT {Dillon} to FIX it.the repuke governor already took responsibility for it and said he himself screwed up. low IQ boiFlint has been a democrat controlled city for at LEAST four decades. They KNEW the problem was there and CHOSE to ignore it.But the major cities like Flint NEVER cleaned the soil. Just like Times Beach Missouri and its problems.Unlike Flint, where the source of the lead is drinking water, the cause in most other places is paint and soil. Until 1978 all paint contained lead, and until 1996, when lead was finally banned in gasoline, car fumes mixed with soil, remaining toxic for decades. Young children explore the world by putting it in their mouths, and both paint chips from the floor and dirt from outside play carry the lead into their bodies. The younger the brain, the more vulnerable it is to toxins, and the damage is irreversible — causing such problems as learning disabilities, attention deficits, reduction in IQ and anger-management issues.
That the incidence of lead poisoning in American children dropped from 5 in 11 down to 1 in 11 since the gasoline ban took effect illustrates that prevention does work, he and other experts say. It also illustrates the imbalance between those who can afford to eliminate lead from their lives — using certified renovation contractors, conducting clearance tests of their environments, etc. — and those who cannot.
Landrigan notes that even while offering resources to the city of Flint, the Centers for Disease Control is cutting funding for New York City programs that teach low-income families to recognize and avoid the hazards of lead.
“The answer is more screening, more education, more remediating of lead paint, and instead they are doing less,” he says. (Calls to the New York City Department of Health were not returned.) The resources “belatedly” being showered on Flint, he says, are “what’s needed elsewhere in the country as well.”
It’s not just Flint that’s poisoned
The rest of it.
Times Beach was dealing with Dioxin. It was unincorporated and abandoned. There are other towns. It's the emergency manager and the governor that are ultimately responsible. Another emergency manager. What does Snyder do? He throws the council under the bus to keep his head afloat. Because........shit rolls downhill.
It just does and it doesn't matter who is in office.