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What specifically do you dislike about free speech?

That's not true.

Flint's water problems are the result of a completely predictable failure on the part of the municipality to provide adequate services to its residents over the span of decades. In a city where schools functionally resemble minimum security prisons, where roads are uniformly neglected, where the police and fire departments are broken, and where corrupt municipal officials have been mismanaging for decades, is it any surprise that the water infrastructure is a disaster as well?

After a certain point it is incumbent upon voters to elect competent local leadership. Detroit elected Mike Duggan and since then, things have only improved. There's no reason Flint can't make a similar leadership change.

Here's an excellent breakdown from /r/AskEngineers: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/41pu0n/can_someone_explain_the_materialschemistry_behind/cz48jqp

I'd appreciate a link to that interview, sounds like a lot of misinformation is being spread, particularly by officials in other cities looking to score easy points against state-imposed fiscal discipline.

The Michigan EFM law is not gubernatorial dictatorship, and a long chain of events need to occur before the state is legally allowed intervene, at which point a series of consent agreements and review boards stand in the way of politicized meddling.

It's impossible to untangle all the ridiculous lapses in governance that have happened. Here's one example: when Flint went into financial emergency, Snyder appointed a local who was deeply involved in Flint politics instead of sending in the cavalry from Lansing. This was done mainly as a sign of good faith to the Flint political establishment, an indicator that even though copious illegal activity was taking place, Snyder was not interested in collecting scalps.

The new EFM, Michael Brown, was a Flint native, Democrat, and former Gennessee County Commissioner. Brown appointed one of his buddies, Howard Croft (Flint native, Democrat, union electrician), to run Flint's Department of Public Works. Croft was forced to resign last November. He maintains that he and his staff did a good job running DPW. He now runs a "renewable energy" company funded mostly by public grants.

Preach.