Don&#x27;t know much about the Flint situation. But if everything you said is true... Why... on Earth... would the supposedly competent State authorities who took over, switch the water supply???<p>My understanding is that the entire reason the state &quot;hacks&quot; were in charge is because they were supposed to be more competent and less corrupt than the local government. The more I discover about this situation, the more I see that this was never the case. Some places are just corrupt and inept from top to bottom.<p>Replacing inept liberals with conservatives is a good idea... in THEORY. The problem is... the conservatives, apparently, are even more inept. The people in Michigan really need to clean house. Their governor and his cronies would be a good start. But I don&#x27;t think I would stop there.<p>All that said... I can&#x27;t really be talking too badly about the Michigan and its people. I&#x27;m from a small town in Wisconsin. And here we are embroiled in Heaven only knows how many scandals. It&#x27;s not just Steven Avery and suddenly missing money. Here we have things going on FAR more troubling than that. I mean... at least in Michigan you guys have leaders who, presumably, INADVERTENTLY poison your kids. Here... (Lincoln Hills)... the leaders and their cronies were using the little boys they&#x27;d incarcerate for sexual gratification ON PURPOSE. Fully aware, and with full intent.<p>Wisconsin&#x27;s scandals are kind of the reason that I don&#x27;t throw stones at other states. I just thought the particular case of Flint was so egregious as to be &quot;Wisconsin-esque&quot; for lack of a better word.
I wish I could say... &quot;Well... at least we aren&#x27;t Michigan.&quot; But even in Michigan they probably don&#x27;t have anything approaching that level of barbarity.