I knew it would be just a matter of time when
someone would pull back the curtain on this Flint water contamination scandal
and expose the flimflam many of us suspected.
And of course, the wizard behind this government scandal is Keynesian
economics.
Informed people in the state of Michigan knew Flint
is in a financial crisis and that a state appointed manager had to take over
the reins. The media would have us
believe this water contamination mess is due to penny pinching measures
implemented by stingy republicans who care more about saving a dollar than the
health and wellbeing of citizens. Not in
this case. The reason Flint didn’t renew
their contract with the Detroit Water and Sewage Department was because
practically everyone involved wanted a huge infrastructure project. Here is an excerpt from Reason Magazine:
Snyder's office did not return my call,
but sources close to the situation at the time tell me that it was essentially
because Genesee County and Flint authorities saw the new water treatment as a
public infrastructure project to create jobs in an area that has never
recovered after Michigan's auto industry fled to sunnier business climes
elsewhere. And neither Snyder nor his Emergency Manager Ed Kurtz nor the state
treasurer Andy Dillon had the heart to say "no," especially since to
hand Flint to DWSD would have made the whole project less viable. What's
more, they felt that just as Detroit was receiving an infrastructure boost
post-bankruptcy (with the state-backed $650 million ice-hockey-arena-cum-entertainment
center that I wrote about here) it was only fair that Flint get one too.
You have to read the whole article in
order to get the full monty.
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