Rick Snyder, Your Bucket is Ready
There is a special place in hell for people like Rick Snyder.
It seems Snyder has gone and hired himself two defense attorneys to deal with the mess arising out of Flint, but he’s making the people of Flint pay for it. And every other taxpayer in the state.
That’s because their official job is to handle all the lawsuits directed at the State from an “investigatory” standpoint. But defending the “State” is actually defending the Governor, and all of the leg work, research and other legal dumpster diving they do on his behalf is covered by the good people of Michigan to the tune of nearly half a million bucks.
Why “nearly” $500,000? Because each lawyer is getting $249,000 for working just the rest of this year. Coincidentally, that’s $1,000 below the threshold where Snyder’s expenditure would have to go before a review board.
Snyder may be going to Hell in a taxpayer-funded bucket, but when he gets there, he’ll spend eternity with nothing to drink but molten lead.
~Primo
One Tough Nerd. (Tough because he poisons children)
1Rick Snyder: this is the guy that competed with Eddie Munster to be the losing veep candidate in 2012. Of course had he been selected for that losing ticket maybe he would not have had so much time to rape Michigan and its taxpayers.
2In hell, they are given water from Flint to cool off when it gets hot. I think Snyder should be forced to drink the water he forced on the families in Flint. He might as well get used to it.
3Wow. So Snyder is essentially a “welfare queen.” I bet he hates it when poor people get anything from the government.
4I am torn between staying the hell away from Michigan, where I spent so much of my life, and returning to help. As for the citizens getting bill for Snyder’s legal troubles, I would search for some way to counter sue for compensation!
5The current price of Snyder attempting to Teflon coat himself from prosecution would do wonders in rectifying his multiple and many layered mistakes that he has visited upon Flint, MI.
“Penny wise, pound foolish” is a good beginning to understanding what the snacilbupeR mean, when they claim to be fiscal conservatives. That, and the unforgettable pRick Perry line: “oops.” The alleged “savings” have been argued to be between $100 and $1000 per month on the Snyder plan. It would take a century or more to make those “savings” consequential.
Yet, in less than two years, once again the snacilbupeR have revealed the humanitarian and financial costs of their ‘unintended consequences.’ Unintended consequences is just a fancy way of snacilbupeR attempting to hide the fact that they fail to think things through to the logical consequences.
From local policies to international (Iraq, Iran, etc) the snacilbupeR have an innate failing. It’s called FFRI (future focused role image) which means that those who cannot think past today, literally today as in 12 midnight, are not equipped to handle matters of long ranging consequence.
The FFRI concept applies particularly to RU-BO and Loathsome Ted on the national level. Marco cannot think beyond his next sip of water, while Crooze can’t wait for the rapture, as if an end timer should ever lead.
6@LynnN
7Hadn’t thought of that! I’ll add Snyder to my list of welfare queens, right after the Bundy gang.
The fact that tomorrow night’s Dem debate will be in Flint is such a slap in the face to the snacilbupeR, is too delicious!
However, let’s not give Bobby Jindal a pass:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/the-debilitating-economic-disaster-louisianas-governor-left-behind/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news
8Yes, JJ. Snyder is garbage, both before and after this Flint business. And next up, wait til you hear about the mess Piyush Jindal made of Louisiana! Check out today’s WaPo for the gory details.
Teaser: How does a budget shortfall of an estimated $6 billion sound? How about slashing state services by 60% sound?
9Barb… ya beat me to it. Thanks for linking.
10“Molten lead” sounds just about right, Primo, maybe with a Flint tap water chaser.
11Utah Sinator Mike Lee has put a hold on federal money to fix Flint’s water pipes,even though the money is accounted for. He claims Michigan has enough money of it’s own to do the job.
Next May,I believe,Snyder has to ask for even more money for lawyers. Another wingnut catastrophe Dems will have to fix if they bother to go to the polls and vote. Zyxomma,we need you to remind people to vote again. Please.
12“Penny wise, pound foolish” is one way to characterize a lot of GOP moves, but it’s also a matter of “socialism for the rich, capitalism for everybody else”: government mustn’t give any money to those freeloading poor people because we need all the money to cover our asses and repair our Big Fn’ mistakes.
I’m reminded of the program in Colorado that gave out long-lasting birth control and slashed teen pregnancy and births to poor women… and the GOPs killed it because it cost some money (a lot less than the unexpected pregnancies cost).
13BarbinDC, excellent article with sub-links to a number of articles of interest. Became lost/submerged there reading. Thank you.
Whether Snyder, Piyush Jindal, Chris Christie, Sam Brownback, John Kasich, etc, the sobering fact is that states with snacilbupeR as governors are either already in serious or facing imminent danger. snacilbupeR are unsafe at any speed and level of government.
14I think Rick Snyder (governor and venture capitalist) et alia may be less innocent than they seem. There’s a “privatized” water supply (Karegnondi Water Authority, KWA see wikipedia & their website) that’s been in the works since 2013, due for completion this June. Snyder’s emergency manager contracted Flint to purchase their water. One may wonder if the situation in Flint was engineered to pave the way for an expensive and profitable privatization of the Flint water supply. As always, follow the money and remember that in snacilbupeR world the collateral damage to lives is unimportant when there’s money to be made.
15Okay, I’ve heard the call.
Register and vote. Help your friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, congregants, tribes, and other assorted groups register and vote.
This may require help. How? Perhaps someone you know lacks internet access. Maybe s/he is short of funds. Make a small gift of money (disguised as a loan if this will save face) to obtain documents. Have a car? Bring someone to the DMV or wherever photo ID (if you’re in one of “those” states) can be obtained. Getting documents from the state/city/municipality usually isn’t free. I had to pay $15 for a copy of my birth certificate so I could get state-issued photo ID (I didn’t need it to vote, I needed it to work for a temp agency).
As a teen, I carried petitions door-to-door to get signatures (yes, those were the good old days) in support of 18-year-olds voting, back when they were fighting in Vietnam. Our meme was “old enough to fight, old enough to vote.” I turned 18 in 1972, the first year we could vote. I take voting seriously, as my civic duty. I vote in every Democratic primary and every general election, every year. I once showed up to the polling place when there were no races in my district. I didn’t mind. It’s part of being a citizen.
Register and vote!
16Each time I look, there is another gop quisling finding yet another way to f-ck the people. The time has come, people to fight back. V O T E !! E D U C A T E !! There are a lot more of us than those evil evil plutocrats and plutocrat wannabes. Send them to hell without the handbasket.
17Thank you and may Obama,hizownself,bless you,Zyx. 🙂
18If you have to pay to get an i.d. to vote,everyone except wingnuts know that is an illegal poll tax.
19“he’ll spend eternity with nothing to drink but molten lead.” That’s perfectly appropriate Primo.
Zyxomma, we are the same age and equally civic minded. I campaigned hard for George McGovern in our home state, South Dakota. (About 50 years ago SD actually had some liberal tendencies. The good liberals still there are overrun by the uber corrupt snacilbupeR government.) Your electoral advice is absolutely correct and absolutely imperative. Thank you.
20There is currently 498 million in our state’s Rainy Day Fund. That fund is supposed to provide for critical services to the citizens in the event of an economic downturn, according to their own description. Flint definitely had an economic downturn when the auto industry outsourced their jobs, and water is certainly a critical service. But we’ve suspected all along that the snacilbupeR in charge are really saving it in case it rains on the plutocrats.
21Snyder AND Utah Senator Lee should both have to drink Flint water. The lead can’t actually made them stupider (impossible) and I can’t quite go as far as insist their families should have to drink it too (tempting as it is, and knowing how fast things would change if it were possible to make them share the risk) but at least drinking dirty, stinking, toxic water might be a salutary lesson for Snyder and Lee.
22Here’s hoping Snyder’s bucket is full of burnt,extra crispy wingnuts.
23Good one epo.
Word is, Cleveland’s water is similar to Flint’s. Let’s see, isn’t that KaySickass land? That’s not the only place. Check the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
http://goo.gl/wucHLk
24Yah but,Debbo them li’l Cleveland children all be the wrong color to initiate any kind feelings from whitey wingnuts. Just like Detroit and Flint’s kids. If it was Whitey Utopia City,that’d be a different story with a far happier ending. 🙂
Beautiful day and tomorrow promises to be even beautifuller. Have a fantastic Sunday-whatever you do on Sundays.
25Not to mention, Debbo, with the mild winter, the Lake Erie algae blooms due to factory farm runoff in my old political stomping ground, the Maumee watershed. Toledo (ie poor people of color) had a terribly compromised drinking source last time it happened. This could be worse, as Erie didn’t freeze.
26And let’s not forget the guy who proposed spending money to fix our infrastructure his first year in office but the Rs in Congress said “No!” What was that guy’s name again? Starts within an O…
27“Snyder is essentially a “welfare queen.” I bet he hates it when poor people get anything from the government.”
LynnN, the Reich-wing refers to that as “free stuff”. Jut sayin’….
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