"Conservatives" in the classic sense are a rare breed these days. The Republican party has been taken over by "regressives" who use their narrow interpretation of religion and the Constitution to serve their own needs. It is the duty of every progressive to speak up and stand against these regressives if we want our society to grow and our children to be successful.
And remember - "liberal" is not a dirty word. After all, the Founding Fathers were actually the liberals of their day.
When the city’s water plant found traces of “coliform and fecal coliform bacterium,” they simply began adding chlorine to the water. They also refused to take any responsibility for their actions, as this email from Snyder’s Chief of Staff indicates:
“I can’t figure out why the state is responsible except that [State Treasurer] Dillon did make the ultimate decision so we’re not able to avoid the subject.”
The emails insinuate that the frightened residents were in fact politically motivated, describing them as an “anti-everything” group that wanted to use the health of their children as a “political football.” There was no action taken after a nearby General Motors factory stopped using Flint’s water because it was corroding the metal in their cars; not after a hospital stopped using the water because it was damaging their instruments, nor after a university stopped for the same reason. How anyone could consider water that was literally damaging metal be safe for consumption by humans?
The final nail in Snyder’s coffin should be this email from an Environmental Protection Agency expert, Miguel Del Toral, which shows that
“the state was testing the water in a way that could profoundly understate the lead levels.”
Not only were they fully aware of the dangers presented by the water, the Snyder administration attempted to cover up the scandal by misrepresenting the data.
This should go down in history as one of THE MOST UNCONSCIONABLE actions and then INACTIONS of government in the history of this country. This isn’t another “Katrina”. Hurricanes are weather related. This wasn’t an unavoidable incident or an “accident”. This is the equivalent of the people of Flint being shot and left to die.
Snyder should be run out his office on a f***ing rail! Some serious prison time would also be more than appropriate.
The millionth example of Republicans acting like assholes towards the vulnerable. The conservative party is vile, proud of their evil treatment of the less fortunate.
An estimated 800,000 people attended March for Life last year. The median expense for a church-sponsored trip is about $50, so say every person spent $50 to attend. That’s about $40,000,000. That $40,000,000 could have provided:
2,857,142 bottles of pre-natal vitamins
20,000 pre-natal doctor visits
2,182 average vaginal births in a hospital
4,000,000 12 packs of baby bottles
1,600,000 cans of formula
1,600,000 packages of diapers
10,000,000 boxes of wipes
4,000,000 8-cans box of baby food
307,692 convertible cribs
800,000 car seats
20,000,000 baby sleepers
8,000,000 swaddling blankets
2,500,000 5 pc onesies
80,000,000 2 p binkies
10,000,000 boxes of baby cereal
4,000,000 2 pc crib sheets
210,526 well-baby doctor visits
So, in all reality, spending $50 to stand in the cold and yell at politicians is a massive waste of money.
Cal Thomas, one of the authors of the National Review’s edition entitled ‘Against Trump,’ sparred with Alan Colmes on this week’s Versus segment, where he pits his liberal perspective head to head with a bona fide ‘conservative.’ However, we are learning that the definition of conservative is rather fluid these days.
Alan asked Cal why he was a contributor to the Against Trump edition of the NR. Thomas explained how it came to pass. The editor called him and asked,
THOMAS: Would you do a 300 word piece on why you oppose Trump? So I said sure, so I did.
Colmes wondered what specifically bothers him about Donald Trump’s assertion that he is a conservative. Thomas explained that Evangelicals are blinded by the strong character of Donald Trump.
THOMAS: He’s 'a late in life convert,’ we used to call that call that confirmation conversion.
That seems to frustrate most of these conservatives, because it’s really shocking that people who believe that the earth is 6,000 years old, who believe in Noah’s Ark and are incredibly against proven science could fall for a carnival barker like Donald Trump. Thomas is just beside himself that Evangelicals are not concerned anymore that,
Reproductive health services and access to women’s health care is the issue. If you phrase the question like that, you would get 90% for funding Planned Parenthood. [These questions are skewed to incite anti-abortion extremists.]
No public money is used for abortions. Planned Parenthood has received federal funds since 1970. They are a law-abiding organization. Planned Parenthood has been cleared in Texas by a Republican Governor, Republican AG, and Republican DA. #Enough
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