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→Flint Water Crisis
==Flint Water Crisis==
==Flint Water Crisis==
[[File:Obama Flint.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Obama tries to convince Black people to drink the poison out of [[Flint, Michigan]] wells.]]
[[File:Obama Flint.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Obama tries to convince Black people to drink the poison out of [[Flint, Michigan]] wells.]]
In 2014 the city stopped buying treated water from Detroit and began getting its municipal drinking water from the Flint River, basically a sewage and garbage dump. Residents complained that the water smelled of chemicals, that it wasn’t the right color, etc. Children’s lead levels rose dangerously high. The [[Democrat]] controlled city council knew about this, and did nothing.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/flint-water-scandal-democratic-pattern/</ref> Democrat loyalist [[Michael Moore]] said, {{Quotebox|Flint has voted for Dems for 84 straight yrs. What did it get us? For 18 months Dems remained silent &ignored pleas while Flint was poisoned.<ref>https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/706610361009631233</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPCIfDN-JU</ref>}}
In 2014 the city stopped buying treated water from Detroit and began getting its municipal drinking water from the Flint River, basically a sewage and garbage dump. Residents complained that the water smelled of chemicals, that it wasn’t the right color, etc. Children’s lead levels rose dangerously high. The [[Democrat]] controlled city council knew about this, and did nothing.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/flint-water-scandal-democratic-pattern/</ref> Democrat loyalist [[Michael Moore]] said,
{{Quotebox-float|Flint has voted for Dems for 84 straight yrs. What did it get us? For 18 months Dems remained silent &ignored pleas while Flint was poisoned.<ref>https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/706610361009631233</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPCIfDN-JU</ref>}}
On Jan 16, 2016 President Obama has declared a state of emergency in response to a water crisis on request of Governor Rick Snyder, Mich., when thousands of residents had been exposed to toxic amounts of lead.<ref>[http://www.michigan.gov/flintwater/0,6092,7-345--373648--,00.html Press Release by the Flint Water Response Team]</ref>
On Jan 16, 2016 President Obama has declared a state of emergency in response to a water crisis on request of Governor Rick Snyder, Mich., when thousands of residents had been exposed to toxic amounts of lead.<ref>[http://www.michigan.gov/flintwater/0,6092,7-345--373648--,00.html Press Release by the Flint Water Response Team]</ref>