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  Force everyone to move - free real estate to sell to developers. Get the US government and taxpayers in Mississippi to pay to fix the water problem. It does not matter if no one moves into the houses, the developers got the taxpayers' money from their friends in government. Now it is time for everyone else to bear the burden.
  All the wrong people are in prison.
context: At what point does a city get declared officially uninhabitable and its inhabitants provided relocation? >
  
  that was a fascinating read! I was raised pretty close to there but I’ve never heard about it. >
  
  That's by design.  The catastrophe was covered up by government officials for well over a decade, until the fires started affecting too many residents for it to be plausibly denied any longer.  By then the company responsible had long been dissolved leaving residents with no means of recourse.
  At which point the government started forcing people to leave, offering them pennies on the dollar to their home's actual value (offering just $50,000 for a property valued at over $400,000 for example) >
  
  At least Southern Miss volleyball got new facilities >
  
  Ah yes, the important things. >
  
  Yet 5 miles away in Madison things are fine >
  
  At what point is it just straight-up racism that the state government (controlled by white republicans) won’t fix the infrastructure in the largest black community, which also happens to mostly vote democrat? >
  
  State republicans haven't helped. It's well established that the responsibility for water is the city though. It's on them. They've have shrinking tax take for years due to shrinking population. Jackson is not in a healthy way as a city. Hospitals are closing too. The economic activity just isn't enough to sustain the infrastructure they need as a city. Tax needs to be higher, but the residents can't afford that.
  The federal government is putting in 600 million to try and fix it. The city fundamentally isn't looking financially viable in the long term though - if there isn't the tax based to sustain the water supply, you can be sure other issues will follow. >
  
  I think what you said is correct I live in Indiana we get a lot of transplants from Kentucky which when I was younger I couldnt understand why anybody would come here of all places but like there is absolutely nothing and no way to live in some parts of KY (this isnt me shitting on KY I love your state and Indiana and KY will always be like cousins) >
  
  Really close cousins that spent all summer together but nothing ever got weird you promise? >
  
  OK ok besides that handjob at the state fair but that was a long time ago ago >
  
  Handies don't count anyway. >
  
  Just so long as Brett Farve's daughter has a new volleyball court to play on... >
  
  Let's keep electing the same people and expecting a different result! >
  
  And just what can the city do?  They don't have the tax base to fund the water system. Why would anyone with money set up a home or business with taxable assets when they can go nearby with good water?  Offer a tax break when taxes are needed to fund services? >
  
  If only there were some kind of bills they could have voted for regarding infrastructure... >
  
  When you keep electing the same stupid people. >
  
  Ask Gov DeSantis, Abbott or Polis to help relocate them...they seem to be pretty good at such things! >
  
  If they were capable of shame, they couldn't be conservatives in the first place. >
  
  Imagine being the world’s richest person.
  Knowing that fixing the water issues in Flint and some other towns would only cost a couple of hundred millions.
  But instead you chose to by a different company, run it into the ground and sink your own net worth with it…
  /smh >
  
  Maybe their government representatives can do something about it when they are done banning drag shows…. >
  
  Keep electing republicans… >
  
  People in Jackson vote Democrat. >
  
  The GOP holds every statewide office and large majorites in their House and Senate and have for a long time. >
  
  And the cities manage water treatment. >
  
  And who allocates state and federal taxpayer dollars that pay for water treatment and water treatment plant upkeep and maintenance, professor?
  So under your scenario, the leaders of Jackson, Mississippi just... want their city to be without water? >
  
  Feeling "abandoned and angry" now, but then all that clears up every election day when they vote the same nitwits in every damn time. The kind of guys who run on "the government is the problem", and then proceed to demonstrate that after they win by not doing jack shit to fix anything whatsoever. 
  It's hard to imagine living without a decent water supply, but man, those guys need to wake up or something. Reddest state in the country, the most conservative state (the "let's not change or improve anything"-style conservative), and last fucking place in just about everything else. >
  
  No, this is the effect of those voters on the areas of the state that vote against them.
  Conservative are literally trying to starve out the few liberals among them. Or even just those who don't vote, because they're, y'know, black. >
  
  I thought I was supposed to cook my food with Mississippi River water according to tiktok >
  
  New Orleans is on MS River water and consistently comes near the top rankings for water quality and taste. >
  
  When I lived there, I think Orleans parish also probably came first in number of boil orders. >
  
  You get what you voted for. Sorry. >
  
  That area is mostly populated by African Americans and they vote mostly democrats, which is why the state gov doesn't do anything about it. >
  
  Why doesn’t the local (overwhelmingly democrat) government do anything about it? It’s their responsibility and it’s their mismanagement which has led to the problem. >
  
  Because it isn't? If you bother to read the article the reason the have this issue is that the republican controlled state government and representatives keep shooting down efforts to repair the crumbling infrastructure. Even tough the money has been apportioned by the us congress, the money is there but Four Republicans from Mississippi’s congressional delegation, Representatives Michael Guest, Trent Kelly and Steven Palazzo and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, keep voting against the bill, give no reason. Tough we all know the reason. >
  
  Seems like it ought to rise to a "department of justice" issue at this point. Investigate those fucks >
  
  When will Mississippi be renamed to Nestle? >
  
  puts on tinder foil hat I’m curious about the amount of bottle water purchased in areas like here and Flint, MI, as opposed to other parts of the country, has some kind of part to play in the lack of repair. Nestle would never put capitalism first… right?  /s.
  Edit: Tinder foil. I’m keeping it. >
  
  You got a cool foil hat from Tinder?! I knew I got burned with them!!! >
  
  I got a burning one time from using Tinder, but it wasn't foil-related. >
  
  It’s cause you didn’t use the foil. >
  
  True. Rookie mistake. >
  
  So when do the feds step in an do something? >
  
  They did, 600 milli >
  
  I want to feel sorry, but I don't. Keep electing the wrong people, keep getting the same results. Get your shut together, MS. >
  
  You don't feel sorry for the reliably Democratic city dying because the Republican state surrounding it is fucking them over for voting the wrong way? >
  
  Correct. I don't feel sorry for them. They still have a choice. Live in a place that has shithole water or move. >
  
  Either change your political leadership and address the real issues or blame people who have little to do with the problems. >
  
  They vote to change their leadership.
  They get overruled by the Republican majority.
  They get punished brutally for voting the wrong way.
  But sure, it's totally their own fault, right? >
  
  It is the fault of the folks who vote for candidates based on imaginary issues or things that are not that important. Absolutely.
  The rest are victims for sure.
  I believe in fighting and not giving up but at some point perhaps leaving is the answer. Obviously not all can do that. >
  
  How do they expect payment? The place is poor. >
  
  The same way every other municipality in the US makes payments in order to keep services intact.