Henry Payne for February 02, 2016

Asinine. Privatise water is the alternative?

Water in the rest of the country, is almost as bad!

Yes, Henry. Just as long as Alcoa stays in private hands so we don’t have to worry about the gummint making foil that their mindrays can penetrate.

Bernie Sanders: “I’m not a doctor but I know how to make your healthcare decision for you”

Great cartoon; I love it!

Yes it is much better to have insurance companies, hospital networks, and big drug companies in charge. They will be efficient and altruistic to make sure they get the best dollar for your needs.

Right. To save some money, the Govt. will try re-using syringes . What could possibly go wrong?

Hold on, are we against government regulation of water quality or in favor of it?

As this cartoon shows – Republicans should not be in control of our health care. We need to come up with some kind of health care that won’t be dismantled the first time some crony wants to deny the poor to line some oil baron’s pockets it can’t happen. Our system of government it is too easy to give with one hand then turn around and take it away.Too bad 1/2 of the politicians are against the people and only looking out for themselves.

Got to ask, if not treating Flint’s water saved hundreds of dollars, why didn’t Snyder stop treating all of Michigan’s water, could have saved more hundreds. Or are some communities more equal than others?

So, it was “government” that poisoned Flint water?

I guess that means that Flint should not have any government?Or maybe all cities should not be governed? You know, just in case.

As P.J. O’Rourke says, “Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.”The Republicans could have been working to improve ACA instead of trying to repeal it 60+ times. They are going to vote on it AGAIN today to try to override Obama’s veto.YEP, it is Groundhog Day!

The REPUBLICAN governor of MI handpicked the Flint city manager that changed the water source. Repeating your false claims doesn’t make them true. Neither do the insults from your friend Pookie.

It works quite well for European countries.

Republicants poisoned the water, not Dems.

Another example of conservatives trying to paint progressives with their failures.The problem is not federal government, it is conservative federal government.

How silly to post this over and over again as if saying it a bunch of times will make it true. The local government did not poison the water. This had nothing to do with Union workers trying to sabotage water. This had more to do with the Governor than you may be aware – he is the one who put in the Emergency Managers who were responsible for all of those things you are blaming the Union.

Henry drank way too much of that water, apparently a long time ago, before drawing this one.

aaaw, is someone afraid of Bernie Sanders?

Wrong! “Government” didn’t poison Flint…Republicans did. It’s what would happen nationally if the Republicans were allowed to shut down the EPA.

The truth about the Flint water crisis, something Payne has no use for:-The person who decided to use the river as a water source was one of a succession of emergency managers in Flint, Darnell Earley. Earley was appointed by Snyder under a controversial law that allows the governor to install managers whose power trumps that of elected officials. Over the last five years, more than 50 percent of Michigan’s black population has, at some point, lived in a city with a state-installed manager.

-Two things:1- The officials who did this were political appointees of a governor who came into office claiming that his experience as a businessman would mean that he could run government more efficiently.2- The clean safe water that Flint had before the crisis was also provided by public sector, the Detroit Metropoliton Water Authority.

Here is the article in its entirety:.http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-went-wrong-in-flint-water-crisis-michigan/

Libertarians have suggested a separation of medicine and state, as many nations have a separation of church and state.

What’s so wrong with Socialism….You Fascist Payne

“The truth is the Flint, MI mayor and city council that voted for all the crud that led to their problems are Democrats.”The powerless, elected officials in Flint, endorsed a plan to change to Lake Huron water from a different source than Detroit. They did not vote to use Flint River water. Snyder’s appointed Emergency Manager made the call to use Flint River water. The people who decided not to spend a tiny amount of money to prevent the more acidic river water from leaching lead & other toxic elements from pipes were all Snyder’s people. The stonewalling & ridicule of residents trying to bring the problem of toxic water to attention was all done by Snyder’s people.This is what happens when you let someone who thinks government should be run like a business, run government.

Nine identical cut & paste responses? I think I’ll let that be a testament to your ability to think rationally.

“Central planning of an economy? How did that go for the Soviet Union?”Where on earth do you get central planning as having a thing to do with this? We’re talking about a public utility that was taken over by the Republican Governor & decisions made that placed greater value on saving a little money than peoples’ lives.

So they sat on their hands and did nothing but take home their paychecks? They still had avenues to object and to take action. They didn’t use them. Incompetent or complicit, which one is it?