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Republicans don’t give a single fuck about the health of the people
Sadly covid showed neither do a lot of the population 😭
covid actually broke so many peoples brains.
Especially the right-wing ones
Lead poisoning literally grows their ranks.
it will never happen a wealthy neighborhood or county though.
Dumber population is preferable. Drink up.
$125m is a pretty fucking low amount for the deed in the first place.
Compared with building concentration camps and rounding up all the minorities, replacing lead pipes is cheap. But Republicans have priorities.
Everyone in lead pipe land should have a RO system by now. They are cheap and easy to install. I am in MI and have had one for 18 years, same system just new filters once a year for about $40. I don't trust the government to not poison me somehow.
We should be doing both. Old pipes need to be replaced eventually
Well yes but people should think about themselves and not rely on the government to fix.
Or we could collectively decide that we want a government that can be trusted to manage something as fundamental as drinking water infrastructure without poisoning people and vote accordingly. If you can't trust your government to provide basic public services then what is the point of having a government at all?
If you can't trust your government to provide basic public services then what is the point of having a government at all?
🤷 I vote for what's best for the people, IDK why others don't.
Does it remove pfas? What about radium? There are a lot of other pollutants in the water other than just lead I'm afraid. None of which are well guarded against.
Municipal water systems that have to test every year, for one thing won't test for everything, but for another tend to do them when the water table is high, like in the spring, when the water is being pulled off the top, meanwhile in the dryer months it pulls up a lot of the nasties and returns much worse results in the late summer and early fall.
What kind of system do you have? I have a small one I used to use for hydroponics and currently just filling a gallon here or there to use in things like humidifiers that are problematic for hard water.
The way mine works wastes a TON of water and takes FOREVER. Around 30 mins to fill a gallon, all while shooting the rest of the water right down the drain into the septic/leach field. At least with a leach field that water will eventually make its way back into the ground... but every time I use it I think about the 3-1 waste of water and the fact that my area is technically still in a drought.
Good! If we SCRAP Making our water Drinkable we can hire MORE ICE Agents to Kidnap Children!
Tax money must be taken from the poor and spent on the rich, not the other way round.
lead is pretty sweet tasting.
Many poisonous things are sickly sweet tasting. Antifreeze.
yet another reason why states impacted by this should forego paying federal taxes this year. why pay? we're not just getting zero benefits, we're getting negative benefits.
Why anyone would support lead poison?
They think it will hurt minorities more than them
You know why.
We need to send that money to Israel
The republicans need those lead pipes.