If you want to point fingers, demand GM pay up.
Flint, Michigan is a mess.
Fingers are being pointed from local to state officials and a Democrat administration has done shit to put money where their socialist asses have put the people of Flint. With over $8 trillion being spent on everything but substantial infrastructure improvements, King Pimple acts like he's innocent. Perhaps he needs to first get the lead out of his ass.
The problem is King Pimple made Flint the mess it is.
By forcing GM into bankruptcy and absolving it of almost any corporate responsibility when it was remade as China Motors. You see, Flint was practically GM USA. Or a shit hole. Call it what you will.
We gave China Motors $49.5 billion of interest free, tax free money that was entirely financed by the money from Communist China. At this point in the tally of how much this fiasco has cost us, the American Taxpayers were soaked for over $35 billion in unrecovered losses, loss credits, interest paid on the deficit spending, and administrative costs. And this cost will only increase.
Perhaps many of you don't know this juicy fact - Flint, Michigan was a GM town - one of the largest employers and a rich history of being in Flint. What is astonishing is that China Motors raised a virtual digital middle finger to the people of Flint and said "Fock you! Your jobs are going to China and we are pulling out."
The tax base of Flint was devastated by China Motors' pull out of Flint - and all of this traces back to King Pimple forcing GM to go bankrupt and to accept Chinese money. Over 70% of China Motors' production is now done overseas and Buick is going to import a Chinese small SUV - a finger stuck in the eyes of Flint's citizens because Buick used to build cars there. And Cadillac will be importing Chinese garbage in the next several years. Meanwhile the bailout that was supposed to create domestic jobs has done jack. China Motors raped Flint.
With a rich history in Flint, GM bears a burden of corporate responsibility - sitting on $35 billion of our money, China Motors isn't lifting a damned finger to cover the $440 million it is estimated to make Flint's water safe for its children to drink.
We know the corporate murder tendencies of GM and China Motors. Witch Barra, the cunt CEO of China Motors, oversaw a cover up of a cover up that had more buyers of GM products killed than Ford had with the Pinto in the 1970's (Rutgers study 1990). So it is not surprising that with their hands bloodied with the lives of their buyers, that China Motors would turn their back on Flint and not do the corporate stewardship thing and do the right thing.
I'm not saying that China Motors is responsible for installing lead pipes, but they have ruined Flint by their actions after the bailout - and King Pimple is complicit by doing nothing - this is not a new revelation - and when you make yourself bigger than the law, you best be big enough to man up and to solve problems! And when you blow smoke about you caring about global climate change, you best show that you are truly an environmental tyrant rather than a bloviating asshole who exploits the concepts of environmentalism to advance your politics and to advance your socialism and class warfare.
Imagine what great corporate goodwill China Motors would reap if they paid for the entire bill of making Flint's water safe - China Motors is sitting on money they never earned - and their silence right now shows they are nothing but disgusting, selfish, and worthless people - human debris of greed - corporate robber barons straight from hell.
So citizens of Flint - you want to point fingers? Start demanding the company that raped you and who also polluted your city and left you high and dry to man up. Until they do, we should all tell China Motors to fock themselves and never buy another product of theirs again!
Hey UV this is Jeff. Thank you for bringing this to people's attention. I just wanted to let you know that I'm writing you from Flint right now. While it is true that GM is partially responsible for our current situation, there are a few other people to blame. Governor Snyder gave Flint and a few other cities in Michigan what is called an "Emergency Manager". You can read about the emergency manager law here: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/snyder/EMF_Fact_Sheet2_347889_7.pdf What that did was remove any control from any locally elected officials and put all powers in the hands of said emergency manager or, in other words, the Governor himself.
ReplyDeleteFlint has been being poisoned for years. GM used to dump things in our river, the river that they began getting our drinking water from for almost two years, factories constantly polluting the air (you can smell Flint from a mile away we used to say), and they have literally killed more people than I can count with the carcinogens they produced which have inundated our environment. GM is not the only culprit though. Mismanagement, corruption, back-door deals, segregation, inefficient law enforcement, gerrymandering, and the list goes on, have led our city into well, a hell with tainted water.
But please sir, don't get me wrong, I love my Flint. It has and will always be my home no matter where I go; I keep leaving and keep coming back. There are numerous lovely things here. The people here are unlike any I've met elsewhere. We are a resilient, strong, proud, and loud crowd here in Flint. If we weren't, you wouldn't be hearing about what is going on here in any news source. Those in power tried to cover as much of this mess up as best they could but we utilized our collective anger and channeled it into forcing the media to take notice by using social media since they couldn't stop the word from spreading without people seeing that they were hiding the truth. Flint is a great city regardless of how we've been portrayed. We have around ten colleges (Kettering University which is one of the best engineering schools in the world is a five minute walk from my house), the Michigan School For The Deaf, and quite a few private and public K-12 schools (some of which are dedicated to integrating the disabled and mentally-ill with regular students) have made those willing to learn very educated. We have several parks, golf courses and recreational areas. Our public transportation network is amazing. There are lots of independently-owned businesses that are thriving amidst a recession. Our city also boasts amazing museums, both movie and opera theaters, a wonderful library and a great planetarium. There are so many things about Flint that nobody knows because all they have gleaned about it has been from negative news articles and horrible statistics that don't tell the whole story. If you'd like to know more about Flint and the crisis we're in please feel free to contact me at jdubfnt@gmail.com
With kindest personal regards,
Jeffrey Wilson (Psydekick)