Unrealistic: Hillary's pledge to "remove all lead from the U.S. in five years"

[Cheese Sandwich]

On Sunday night, lead was introduced as a topic immediately. A member of the audience rose to ask the Democrats if they would support a national effort in their first 100 days in office to remove all lead service lines in the country. Sanders said he'd quickly seek to test the nation's water systems and inform homeowners about the quality in their homes.

Clinton went further, as she herself said.

"I agree completely," she said. "I want to go further, though. I want us to have an absolute commitment to getting rid of lead wherever it is. Because it's not only in water systems. It's also in soil and it's in lead paint that is found mostly in older homes."

"We will commit," she continued, "to a priority to change the water systems, and we will commit within five years to remove lead from everywhere."

That's almost certainly impossible.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/hillary-clintons-pledge-to-remove-all-lead-from-the-u-s-in-five-years-is-just-not-possible/?postshare=721457655330275&tid=ss_tw-bottom


Overpromising = Pandering. We should be honest about the scale of the problem when we address the lead issue.


Which explains why some Michigan people were disgusted by Clinton's comments.

Hillary Clinton's Lead Pipe Answer 'Made Me Vomit In My Mouth,' Flint Questioner Says

"I hated Hillary Clinton's answer," Walters, 38, told The Huffington Post on Monday. "It actually made me vomit in my mouth."
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"To tell a Flint resident that we'll handle this in five years is no different than what the city was telling us and what the state was telling us," Walters said.
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Sanders at the debate promised that under a Sanders administration the EPA would keep its eye on water safety, which is essentially what the agency is already supposed to do. Walters considered it a lame answer, but a more honest one.

Another thing she disliked about what Clinton said was the former Secretary of State's focus on lead from paint and dust. Epidemiologists consider paint and dust to be the more significant sources of lead exposure, but public water systems have used those factors to downplay concerns about water lead.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-flint-water_us_56ddb0e4e4b0ffe6f8ea02a7

[Baobab]

1. By using WTO compliant changes to import hundreds of thousands of really low paid guest workers.

I'm not kidding.

[Maedhros]

2. Psst. Hillary...

Remember the provisions in the TPP that you helped craft that allow corporations to sue for lost expected profits? How is that going to play when we tell a glass company that they can't discard waste from the production of leaded glass into our rivers? How much expected profit will we end up compensating?