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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Wed Mar 16, 2016, 03:03 PM Mar 2016

Let’s Not Forget That Flint, Michigan’s Water Situation is Still An Enormous Disaster

Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and Mollye Barrows discuss the latest news surrounding the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

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Let’s Not Forget That Flint, Michigan’s Water Situation is Still An Enormous Disaster (Original Post) GoLeft TV Mar 2016 OP

Then there's Newark, New Jersey.... ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #1

Dig a little deeper in the well and ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #2

More Places Around the Country Are Finding Problems Leith Mar 2016 #3

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)

1. Then there's Newark, New Jersey....

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Wed Mar 16, 2016, 03:06 PM

Mar 2016

who are having the same thing going on there as well.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/03/newark_to_test_17000_children_for_possible_lead_po.html

Of course this will be widespread not confined to the schools. Probably a state wide thing, and probably has Christie's fingerprints all over it.

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)

2. Dig a little deeper in the well and

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 16, 2016, 03:38 PM

Mar 2016

widespread lead. not just the schools. http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/03/environmentalists_say_newark_water_crisis_shines_l.html

Leith

(7,809 posts)

3. More Places Around the Country Are Finding Problems

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Wed Mar 16, 2016, 05:02 PM

Mar 2016

with their water supplies, too. Jackson, MS, for example.

The US has a military that is bigger than those of the next 10 countries combined while the country they supposedly defend is falling apart.

I was born and raised in Flint and my family still lives in the area so, yeah, this story affects me just a bit.

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