This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com
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Roanoke Times, 1-27-2016, Pg
3: Zika virus outbreak spreading
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The ticks and mosquitoes are
winning the battle of biological warfare!
We destroyed our only
defensive weapon: DDT Good Luck with
that move!
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The massive loss of life,
especially children, in the third-world from ticks and mosquitoes is
devastating. Over one-million children
die each year from malaria transmitted by mosquitoes.
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In the US;
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Lymes and Alpha Gale are widely spread by
ticks causing major health issues for millions.
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Encephalitis, transmitted by
mosquitoes, and now the Zika virus has recently invaded the US and is a
major danger to babies.
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Knee-jerk reactions to
challenges can have devastating adverse consequences.
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Repeat of Dec 2014 blog item
this subject:
Ebola Conflict With Malaria?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/12/ebola-conflict-with-malaria.html
We, the people of the US, condemned over one million
third world children to die from malaria each year by killing DDT (the only
real mosquito and tick killer).
That ban was based on the results of massive faulty application processes,
in many cases by government agencies.
Instead of fixing the real problem, we did a government knee-jerk
solution! How sad is that!
A pitiful news story several years
ago was about President Bush delivering bed-cover-netting to Africa
to address the malaria pandemic.
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In addition to the malaria issue, we have significant health issues right here
in Virginia
with Lyme, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Alpha Gale tick borne
diseases. Look at the tick spray you buy
– it’s a so called “repellant”, it doesn’t kill anything and doesn’t really
repel anything, but the diseases can
greatly impact your health.
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Reprint blog item from: Tuesday,
December 18, 2012
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/12/one-million-malaria-deaths-each-year.html
One Million Malaria Deaths Each Year: The Unintended Consequences Of Good
Intentions
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“A prime example of this is the Rachael Carson DDT ban which has led to over
one million malaria deaths each year for over 20 years in third world
countries. No one was ever identified as getting ill from DDT and clearly a
major focus on responsible application would have been a responsible first and
probably only required action. Interestingly, it was primarily government
agencies that were irresponsible in how they were doing DDT applications.”
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By Kate Kelland, Reuters, Dec. 17, 2012: Global malaria battle stalls as
financing gets tight.
Malaria is caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of mosquitoes and kills
hundreds of thousands of people a year, mainly babies and children under the
age of five in Africa.
"Vector control" means stopping transmission of the disease with
tools such as treated mosquito nets.
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REALLY? How’s that working out for the one-million
children that die each year?
http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/global-malaria-battle-stalls-as-financing-gets-tight
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If one million Americans (most of them children) died each year for 20 years
from malaria one can be sure that the DDT factories would be turned back on,
that proper and prudent application processes would be established and that “we”
wouldn’t just be giving parents “nets” to put over their children’s beds!
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MALARIA
VICTIMS: HOW ENVIRONMENTALIST BAN ON DDT CAUSED 50 MILLION DEATHS
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1259
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Zika
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/30/zika-virus-health-fears
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Malaria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
http://www.cdc.gov/rmsf/
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Lymes
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/
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Alpha Gale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
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Encephalitis
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/encephalitis/basics/definition/con-20021917
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ObamaCare – the gift that
keeps on giving! What a joy!
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Roanoke Times, AP,
1-27-2016, Pg 1, 4: Healtlh care fines press millennials
Young adults face painful
choices as fines for not having coverage go up sharply in 2016.
“Fines” for being uninsured rise shaply in 2016
averaging nearly $1,000 per household.”
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The “penalty” for not buying insurance is $695 per
adult and $347.50 per child — or more
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obamacare-deadline-to-avoid-695-penalty-is-jan-31-2016-01-29
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Today’s the last day to
sign-up for 2016 or else: you may get taxed/fined or not.
Has the federal government
ever before levied a tax-fine on Americans for NOT signing-up for private
services? I think not! Just more hope and change we can believe in!
Many who do not sign-up
either don’t file income tax forms and/or don’t have “reportable” income. Either way, how is Obama going to collect
his Tax-Fine?
Many of these folks are on
some form of ObamaDependence Payments and in that case it’s just a farce
exchange of taxpayers money.
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ObamaCare: It’s Not Just For Your Health Insurance Anymore –
it’s for your TAXES
The highlights of the
massive tax increases include:
Medicare tax went from 1.45%
to 2.35%
Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%
Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%
Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%
Dividend tax went from 15% to 39.6%
Estate tax went from 0% to 55%
A 3.5% Real Estate transaction tax was added.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/01/obamacare-its-not-just-for-your-health.html
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Obamacare Enrollment Stalls as Projections Are
Slashed by 8 Million
The Congressional Budget
Office slashed its estimate of exchange enrollment from 21 million to 13
million by 2026 in its annual Budget
and Economic Outlook that was released on Tuesday.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/01/29/Obamacare-Enrollment-Stalls-Projections-Are-Slashed-8-Million
“The survey showed that 11.9
percent of adults were not covered by insurance in the final quarter of 2015,
the same level as in the first quarter.”
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12% still not covered! Wasn’t this whole ObamaCare mess launched
under the guise that there were 15% uninsured and that ObamaCare would make a
major change in that number? Has the US government
ever lied at this level of malfeasance about any project in our history? I think NOT!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/04/mr-president-obama-you-lie.html
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Small Businesses Suffering Under Obamacare
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2016/01/27/small-businesses-suffering-under-obamacare
“Since the Affordable Care
Act (ACA) became law in 2010, millions of Americans have been forced to obtain
a new, often inferior health insurance plan; health insurance premiums have
risen dramatically, especially for young adults; and many health insurance companies
operating in the Obamacare exchanges have lost millions of dollars. For
instance, UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurer, recently
announced it
is expecting losses totaling more than $500 million on its 2016 Obamacare
plans.
Although numerous groups are
facing difficulties related to ACA, few are struggling as significantly as U.S. small
businesses. According to an online survey
produced by LevelFunded Health, a national health insurance agency “with a
hyper-focus on Affordable Care Act ‘alternative’ employee benefit programs for
the small employer market segment,” 87 percent of those small businesses who
offer “group health care” saw health insurance premiums rise by 25 percent
since 2014, with 12 percent saw premium increases of 50 percent or more.”
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Feds foresee $30 trillion debt, blame looming tax
hikes and Obamacare
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/25/warning-feds-now-foresee-30-trillion-debt/
“The federal government will
be flirting with $30 trillion in debt within a decade, the Congressional
Budget Office reported Monday, blaming an aging population, new spending
and tax cuts approved on Capitol Hill, and the growing burden from Obamacare
for erasing the progress Washington
had made over the past few years.
Analysts said Obamacare will
chase more workers out of the labor force over the next five years, adding
pressure to an economy still struggling to spring to life more than seven years
into the Obama recovery”
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ObamaCare: The Train Wreck Continues Into 2015 And
Beyond
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/01/obamacare-train-wreck-continues-into.html
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ObamaCare Costs Continue To Rise
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/11/obamacare-costs-continue-to-rise.html
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ObamaCare Like A Chain-Reaction Highway Wreck
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/07/obamacare-like-chain-reaction-highway.html
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Roanoke Times, 1-27-2016: Pg
3: “Denmark votes to seize
valuables.
Police to seize valuables
over $1500 from asylum-seekers to help cover their housing and food costs.”
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Amazing! Imagine doing such a thing here? And where are all these refugees (primarily
young men) getting all those upscale backpacks, foot-ware and jackets? They sure make me look shabby. And how did ISIS
let these people leave with thousands of dollars in valuables in their
backpacks?
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“Up to 80,000 refugees who
arrived in Sweden
last year will be expelled from the country over the next few years, the
country's interior minister said Thursday.
Anders Ygeman told newspaper
Dagens Industri that since about 45 percent of asylum applications are
currently rejected, the country must get ready to send back tens of thousands
of the 163,000 who sought shelter in Sweden in 2015.
"I think that it could
be about 60,000 people, but it could also be up to 80,000," Ygeman was
quoted as saying.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/28/sweden-to-deport-up-to-80000-refugees.html?intcmp=hpbt2
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And to think that Hillary
said Sweden and Denmark
are the country's we should emulate!
Really?
She also hyped Norway
as a warm and welcoming country for Muslim Refugees! Really?
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Norway’s
solution to the latest major influx of Muslim Refugees is to pay them off to
get out of town!
Norway offers refugees free flights, thousands of dollars to leave the country
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/12/07/norway-offering-refugees-free-flights-thousands-dollars-to-leave-country/?intcmp=hplnws
“Norway is offering asylum seekers thousands of dollars to leave the country as
the global refugee crisis intensifies, and hundreds of people have taken the
government up on its offer, The Local reports.
A family with two children is eligible for up to $9,300 dollars – and free
flights home, the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration told the media outlet.
More than 900 people reportedly have accepted.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/12/norways-solution-to-muslim-refugee.html
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In retrospect, perhaps it was not a wise thing to
politically-lynch Mayor Bowers. His
proposals sound rather modest compared to the countries that Hillary is hyping
as her role-models.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-inquisition-and-lynching-of-roanoke.html-
Perhaps the indigenous-residents of Norway, Sweden and Denmark have awoken and are now
rejecting the Kool-Aid that the Progressive-Liberals have been selling.
This link for all
“youngsters” and “forgetters”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
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As one whose parents were
teen-age immigrants, arriving with no money, very marginal education, limited
skills and no fancy backpacks. I am very
sensitive to legal and managed immigration!
Clearly, that is not what’s occurring with those from Mexico, Central America
and The Middle East.
Whatever happened to
reasonable and prudent management?
Whatever happened to
responsible and accountable governance?
Just more hope and change we
can believe in!
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Some Muslim Refugees
Celebrate New Years Eve With Rampage Of Rape And Chaos
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/01/some-muslim-refugees-celebrate-new.html
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Obama Scoffs At Immigration
Concerns
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/12/obama-scoffs-at-immigration-concerns.html
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US Government
Criminal Abuse Of Migrant Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/01/us-government-criminal-abuse-of-migrant.html
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Who Are The Real Syrian
Refugees?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/11/who-are-real-syrian-refugees.html
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Obama Removes The Allegiance
Commitment From Citizenship Oath
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/07/obama-removes-allegiance-commitment.html
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The Invasion Of 60,000 Illegal-Immigrant Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-invasion-of-60000-children.html
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Roanoke Times, 1-26-2016, Pg
1, 4: Feds failures imperil tens of thousands of Central American migrant
children. US officials weakened child
protection policies to swiftly move children out of government shelters and
into the arms of child molesters and abusers.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/wire/ap-investigation-feds-failures-imperil-migrant-children/article_fd2b9d24-7763-57a1-aff1-337193bbb80e.html
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Let’s quickly find those
Republican Governors who are responsible for this massive criminal malfeasance
and “string them up”!
Oh – Right! It wasn’t any Republican Governors that did
this! It is Obama and his minions that
are directly and personally responsible!
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2014 October 21 Breaking
News USA
government vendors up to 34 million work permits green cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IvULIeyUY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPoSYZiNZt4
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With his pen and his phone
Obama brings tens of thousands of migrant children into the US and then “dumps them” into local
communities without notice and without concurrence from any State or Local
government entity!
Talk about Federal Unfunded
Mandates!
Local schools have been
flooded “overnight” with hundreds of migrant children who can’t speak English,
who don’t have any health records or records of immunizations and whose parents
and guardians are undocumented.
And we wonder why our
schools are failing and our teachers are quitting?
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In spite of all this
malfeasance, the Pravda Media continues to totally embraces Obama, smother him
with excuses and misdirects responsibility and accountability away from
him.
Notice how quiet Hillary is
about this – isn’t she the Sheppard for the little abused Flint children? Oh yes – the black voters children – the
nonvoting migrant children – not so much!
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Some 2014 Blog Items on this
mess:
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Children Of Violence Fleeing
Homeland
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/07/children-of-violence-fleeing-homeland.html
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Obama Indictment - 60,000 Counts Of Child Abuse
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-indited-60000-counts-of-child.html
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Obama Wants $3.7 BILLION For His Adopted Kids
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-wants-37-billion-for-his-adopted.html
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Obama’s Diabolical And Insidious Exploitation Of Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/07/obamas-diabolical-and-insidious.html
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Community Organizers Block Illegal-Immigrants
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/07/community-organizers-block-illegal.html
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Obama Immigration: The Breaker Says He’s A Fixer
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-immigration-breaker-says-hes-fixer.html
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Obama-Democrat Illegal-Immigration Machine
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-obama-democrat-illegal-immigration.html
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The Invasion Of 60,000 Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-invasion-of-60000-children.html
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Roanoke Times, 1-23-2016, Pg
Va 1: UVa employee (1,400 of over 20,000) personal data compromised.
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UVa’s servers hacked. Too bad they didn’t use Hillary’s bathroom
server.
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The 20,000 UVa employee
number is totally amazing!
Especially when one
considers that there are 16,483 enrolled undergraduate students in 2016.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/uva-6968
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Who would believe that for every student there’s an “employee”!
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We all knew that THE
UNIVERSITY was elitist, but we didn’t know that every student got an
“employee”!
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If you don’t like your
“employee”, can you change to another?
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Does your “employee” do your
homework and valet services (shades of Downton Abby)?
http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Downton_Abbey's_staff
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One could go on with this
line of mockery but the obnoxious cost of a college education brings one back
to the serious reality of the massive debt our college students are bearing!
Is there anyone in higher education devoted to the
fiscal management of the institution?
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Based on the number of
college age people at the feet of Socialist Bernie Sanders one wonders what
these people are thinking?
We’re $18+ TRILLION in Obama
Debt.
Bernie wants to add another
$18+ TRILLION to that amount for his “dreams”.
These college graduates are
tens of thousands in education debt and are getting jobs way below their
capabilities and appropriate pay-scale.
By Who and how are these
debts going to be paid?
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A Reality College Commencement Speech
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-reality-college-commencement-speech.html
Click-on and be enlightened:
The Speech Every 2015 College Grad (and their parents) Needs to
Hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfl4BGbMxoQ
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Obama The Pied Piper At Charlottesville Va
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/08/obama-pied-piper-at-charlottesville-va.html
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Obama sure sounds a lot like: Bob Marley - Don't Worry be Happy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4OnQpwjkc
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Obama Proposes
Another Taxpayer Funded National Entitlement
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/01/obama-proposes-another-taxpayer-funded.html
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Latest 1-30-2016 Flint News And Disgusting Roanoke Times so-called "cartoon"
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/01/race-baiting-flint-water-debacle.html
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Latest Flint Lead News 1-28-2016:
Michigan Gov. Snyder says full replacement of Flint's lead pipes not imminent
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/28/michigan-gov-snyder-says-full-replacement-flints-lead-pipes-not-imminent.html?intcmp=hplnws
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Roanoke
Times:
1-23-2016, Pg 1, 5:
Regional EPA official resigns over Flint
crisis
1-24-2016, Pg 1, 5:
VT Tech water group fought for Flint
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This is a major health emergency affecting many children in Flint and it is disturbing
that it is being exploited politically. Hillary
expounded upon it in a major attack against that “nasty Republican Michigan
Governor Rick Snider who she implied acted purposely to hurt poor black children”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcpyCpjPEQ
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She didn’t mention the EPA’s
responsibility or the Regional Officer that resigned or the complexity
of the issues involved.
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There is ample opportunity for lots of blame on lots of
people including the never ending Democrat control of Flint’s mayor and city council who have personal
direct responsibility for the health and welfare of the people of their city.
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Perhaps, one could try to summarize a very confusing and
highly emotional and political brawl.
Suppose a novice summarized it as follows:
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Doing cost-reductions after an initial product or process
has been established is higher risk than the proponents of the change may
understand. There are many examples in
business, government and the military of changes that seemed innocuous but
turned out to be problematic, in some cases resulting in fatal outcomes.
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During the initial stages of a program, there is keen focus
on design specifications, manufacturing processes and testing by those selected
to “do the job”.
Changes later in time usually involve a team of people far
less familiar with the complexities and interactions of the systems involved
and usually there is far less comprehensive testing.
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In this case, Flint
wanted to reduce their municipal water costs.
They changed from a sister-city supply to a river source.
They implemented testing that appeared to indicate the treated
new source was “safe to drink”.
There were many complaints about the taste and color and
sediment of the river water.
Apparently, ongoing testing continued to indicate the
treated water was “safe to drink”.
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Then the unintended adverse consequence of the change became
apparent to physicians who detected elevated levels of lead in children.
Apparently, there was “acceptable levels of lead” in the
city water testing.
Where and how were the children being contaminated with
lead?
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The forensic and scientific analysis now points to the lead
pipes between the city water mains and the old homes in the old neighborhoods.
The river water has very different chemical properties than
the previous water supply.
The river water interacted with the lead pipes causing lead
to leach-out into the water entering the home.
To detect the lead in the water, it is necessary to test the
tap-water inside those homes who have lead service entry pipes.
Which houses are they?
No one seems to know!
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The temporary fix: supply millions of gallons of bottled
water to those affected (not clear who they all are).
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The ongoing remedial actions will probably be to connect
back to the sister-city system and then flush all the lines in all the homes
involved.
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This lead-pipe conundrum is a major disconnect to most
people (almost unbelievable).
Weren’t we told 100 years ago not to use lead pipe and
lead-rich clay containers because that was a major factor in the fall of the Roman Empire!
The reality is that many “old” homes and “old” communities
are serviced by lead pipe that connect the city mains to the “old” homes.
It is massively expensive for a city to dig-up the street
from each home to the main and replace the lead pipes with PVC.
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An immediate wake-up call to all utilities and homeowners of
homes older than 1940 vintage should be to test municipal water in the homes at
the taps!
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Hopefully, the affected children of Flint can receive treatment that minimizes
any long-term health issues.
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On January 1, 2016 a major
set of tax increases went into effect.
You may not have been aware
because Obama’s Pravda Media forgot to cover it!
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The highlights of the massive tax increases include:
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Medicare tax went from
1.45% to 2.35%
Top Income tax bracket went
from 35% to 39.6%
Top Income payroll tax went
from 37.4% to 52.2%
Capital Gains tax went from
15% to 28%
Dividend tax went from 15%
to 39.6%
Estate tax went from 0% to
55%
A 3.5% Real Estate transaction
tax was added.
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Remember these facts:
These taxes were all passed
solely with Democrat votes.
Not a single Republican
voted for these new taxes.
These taxes were all passed
in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
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For a Full List and Details of ObamaCare Tax Hikes
click-on:
https://www.atr.org/full-list-ACA-tax-hikes-a6996
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Can you remember when ObamaCare was going to save you $2300 per family?
Those were the days my friend!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE
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ObamaCare: The Train Wreck
Continues Into 2015 And Beyond
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/01/obamacare-train-wreck-continues-into.html
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ObamaCare Costs Continue To
Rise
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/11/obamacare-costs-continue-to-rise.html
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Obama Jokes With His
Pravda-Media Friends About ObamaCare
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/05/obama-jokes-with-his-pravda-media.html
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ObamaCare Like A
Chain-Reaction Highway Wreck
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2013/07/obamacare-like-chain-reaction-highway.html
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