Quote:Your link supports the summary I referenced. There was nothing in it about Snyder knowing the full problem before the facts were released early this year. Snyder accepted the findings of the state environmental agency. He had no reason to believe they were wrong, and most of them were appointed by Dem governors long before Snyder took office.


The Dems responsible do not include Obama, and I never said that. On the federal level, the EPA suppressed internal findings they initially disagreed with (but which proved to be true), but that was the extent of the federal government's failure.


The State screwed up mainly through their own environmental department. Snyder's mistake was trusting them and appointing Dems as financial managers for the city.


The Detroit city officials could have averted this problem by extending Flint's contract until June 2016. Instead the legions of the easily offended running Detroit took offense at Flint seeking a new source of water and screwed Flint in every way they could, forcing Flint to seek a different temporary solution while the pipeline to Lake Huron was being built.



The root problem was the mismanagement of the city of Flint over the last 50 years. Lead pipes should have been replaced long ago. The city wouldn't have even had a state appointed financial manager if it weren't so disastrously far in debt to begin with.