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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gov. Snyder: "Government failed you, federal, state and local leaders, ..." [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rick-snyder-flint-state-of-the-state_us_569ec5b3e4b00f3e98635e87Your families face a crisis, a crisis you did not create and could not have prevented, Snyder said. I am sorry, and I will fix it.
Government failed you -- federal, state and local leaders -- by breaking the trust you placed in us, Snyder continued. Im sorry most of all that I let you down. You deserve better. You deserve accountability. You deserve to know that the buck stops here with me.
That's odd.
I could swear that federal leaders had nothing to do with the decisions to switch to a different water-supply and to cover up the subsequent poisonings.
I could also swear that local leaders were left out of the loop because the whole mess was orchestrated by an unelected emergency-manager Gov. Snyder had appointed.
So, if the federal government didn't issue any orders, and the local governments were unable to issue orders even if they wanted to, who is left?
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Gov. Snyder: "Government failed you, federal, state and local leaders, ..." [View all]
DetlefK
Jan 2016
OP
I've lived in Michigan my entire life, and unless the feds lower the boom on that sleazy lowlife,
catbyte
Jan 2016
#27
People keep electing politicians who say "government can't do anything right"
jberryhill
Jan 2016
#4
Regardless of what they say, republicans were never good at taking personal responsibility for
B Calm
Jan 2016
#6
He confessed to crime. Where are the indictments. Drag that criminal out of the governor's mansion.
ancianita
Jan 2016
#8
Nah, not buying it. Passive poisoning may be misjudgment. But year-long persistent misjudgment
ancianita
Jan 2016
#31
Simply because he claims no criminality by saying, "I let you down"? Come ON.
ancianita
Jan 2016
#38
I'm won't be cynical and defeatist about it, at least. It will only take one good legal team.
ancianita
Jan 2016
#47
This is beyond "failing" or "fucking up." Snyder committed criminal negligence.
ancianita
Jan 2016
#41
The GOP keeps saying that the government is worthless and can't do anything right
Shadowflash
Jan 2016
#12
Just imagine if a Muslim terrorist had poisoned the water supply of a major city
FlatBaroque
Jan 2016
#16
But, it was only the State. The locals were overruled, and Czars appointed. The Feds
silvershadow
Jan 2016
#23
Notice how all these so-called "emercency managers" were appointed to cities in which the majority..
Crowman1979
Jan 2016
#30
Bush's cost cutting in New Orleans caused more than a thousand deaths..
mountain grammy
Jan 2016
#37