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The Cubelodyte posted:How the gently caress is that 1-bedroom apartment going for almost $300k? It's an apartment complex, 1 br/ba per unit probably
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. (And trash collection) It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
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Dapper_Swindler posted:how has the mayor not been thrown out of officer or shot yet? Because she didn't create the water problem. After Gov. Snyder appointed an emergency manager to Flint in 2011, the Flint mayor had pretty much all powers taken away, so mayors since then had no actual power and just ineffectually lobbied for their constituents. The issues with the Flint water supply became gradually more apparent in 2015. In late January 2016 the Mayor -- who was recently elected based on a platform of fixing Flint's water -- was given back some but not all mayoral powers by Rick Snyder. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-water-idUSKCN0V024X As far as the garbage goes she's partly culpable. She wanted to go with a new garbage service that was $2mil/year cheaper. The city council voted 8-1 against her. She vetoed. They overrode her veto. Then the council took her to court in order to force the issue of who had the final say in the matter. The judge was royally pissed with both the council and the mayor. Here's where she really went wrong: Republic Services, the old garbage crew, offered to continue service until a decision was reached, and the Mayor declined the offer. That's why there's no pickup at all right now. The mayor claims the issue will hopefully be solved by midweek but there's no reason to trust her confidence, or even that the final decision will be hers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...f-trash-pickup/
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We should convince the Saudis and Chinese to buy it at a steal
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Filthy Hans posted:Because she didn't create the water problem. After Gov. Snyder appointed an emergency manager to Flint in 2011, the Flint mayor had pretty much all powers taken away, so mayors since then had no actual power and just ineffectually lobbied for their constituents. The issues with the Flint water supply became gradually more apparent in 2015. In late January 2016 the Mayor -- who was recently elected based on a platform of fixing Flint's water -- was given back some but not all mayoral powers by Rick Snyder. That's the craziest thing, Flint is so bad that they more or less are in federal emergency mode permenantly. Which had just made the whole government a mess, as you stated no one is sure who holds the power because it is all more or less arbitrary now.
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Alan Smithee posted:We should convince the Saudis and Chinese to buy it at a steal I would sooner gift both Flint and Detroit to all of the current undocumented mexicans. Sanctuary Cities that they can control to their hearts content. (Most immigrants I know from south of the border would work their asses off to make it a decent place)
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Cartouche posted:I would sooner gift both Flint and Detroit to all of the current undocumented mexicans. Sanctuary Cities that they can control to their hearts content. (Most immigrants I know from south of the border would work their asses off to make it a decent place) Sending illegal immigrants to Flint would be a massive human rights violation.
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Best Giraffe posted:Sending illegal immigrants to Flint would be a massive human rights violation. I'd sweeten the pot and give them all of Chicago and it's suburbs.
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Cartouche posted:I'd sweeten the pot and give them all of Chicago and it's suburbs. Why not just deport them all back to whatever murder hellhole they were fleeing in the first place? The weather would be better, and they'll be safer. IMO we should just stick them all in Wyoming and let them go nuts. It's not like anyone lives there now, anyway.
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every democrat controlled area is a hellhole (not surprising)
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oh except for washington DC, the onyl part of the country to get richer while everywhere else collapses Purely coincidence
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gently caress the ROW posted:every democrat controlled area is a hellhole (not surprising) actually pretty much the states that go blue are nice and the states that go red are shitholes and cherrypicking some rust belt states while ignoring the goddamn West Coast and New England is some pants on head poo poo imo
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I ehar boston is really nice, especialyl during the marathon/city wide lockdowns though
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I for one cannot wait until we just let the South enslave the Midwesterners and finally make America great again
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Flint well on its way to becoming the next Summer Olympics host
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gently caress the ROW posted:oh except for washington DC, the onyl part of the country to get richer while everywhere else collapses Spoken like someone blissfully unaware of the east end.
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CharlestonJew posted:Flint well on its way to becoming the next Summer Olympics host Needs more waterlogged corpses.
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Booblord Zagats posted:I for one cannot wait until we just let the South enslave the Midwesterners and finally make America great again Upper Midwest here - Southern states, baby, call me. Let's make a deal. You get the Rust Belt and we get not having the Rust Belt.
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They have reached a temporary agreement to stop garbagpocolypse, "After backlash from residents, a temporary agreement was reached Monday afternoon with Republic Services, hired to take out the trash until August 12. Both sides of the argument are hoping to reach a long-term agreement by then." "You (are) going to fight over picking up our garbage?" said Betty Franklin. "If you have a fight with each other, fight amongst yourselves but pick up the garbage." http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/184213079-story I agree with Betty, give everyone baseball bats, lock them in a room, and wait.
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Cartouche posted:Spoken like someone blissfully unaware of the east end. i was gonna say, isn't washington dc, like, photogenic capitol + massive ultraghetto
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Cartouche posted:
gl voting for a republican when nobody from the GOP has bothered to file in years.
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Ofaloaf posted:gl voting for a republican when nobody from the GOP has bothered to file in years. Well yah. There's no money in it. 
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I'm thinking about buying a Flint house as a sort of cabin or wilderness getaway. Just go there for a few weeks out of the year and make fires and filter some stream water or whatever. I bet I could even hunt coyotes and, after a decade or so, deer.
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The White Dragon posted:i was gonna say, isn't washington dc, like, photogenic capitol + massive ultraghetto There are some nice neighborhoods, it's not all ghetto but there's plenty of that. Also a lot of the gov't employees live Virginia so their real estate tax doesn't go to the state. I don't know about their income tax system, if it's NYC they pay income tax despite living in an actual state. Also their rail system is something that Detroit would be ashamed of.
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