"... 35 years of tax cuts and the Republicans at every level [are] making it impossible to raise taxes to pay for things that save lives."

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COMMENTS:
*  Many people attempt to focus on vaccines and try to create connections with autism or seizures... Why don't more focus on where our most important and valuable commodity comes from, water? I'm in no way, shape, or form a conspiracy theorist, but we're doing shit to much of our water and food that is unthinkable...
*  It's f**ked up the christian right still supports them, you know, using that bible of theirs and whatnot. They have this divine authority to real-estate, it's a recipe for disaster, that's what it is...
*  She's right, politics and fucking greed account for the majority of the nations problems.
*  It is sad people like Erin have to go to comedy shows to get an important message out. A message that should be on every news channel. But we know better than that.
*  hell why worry about climate change when the water will kill ya a lot sooner...oh and as far as those so called pro life Christians out there..don't ya know the lead and other heavy metals and chemicals will hurt really bad those non-babies ya wanna save so bad..but it may cost ya a few bucks so maybe they will over look the damage it will do to those same non-babies....
*  Its also happening because of 35 years of tax cuts and the Republicans at every level making it impossible to raise taxes to pay for things that save lives.
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Erin Brockovich and Bill Maher unleash a righteous attack on ‘corrupt politics and f*cking greed’
By Tom Boggioni, February 5, 206

Appearing on  HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched into a scathing attack on “corrupt politics” and the “fucking greed” that is leading to the poisoning U.S. citizens like the residents of Flint, Michigan.

Asked about the water crisis in Flint, Brockovich said it’s not the only one and that there are so many cities facing the same issues that, “I can’t keep up.”

Explaining how municipal water systems draw water for the public, Brockovich noted that chlorine must be added to deal with organic matter in the case of surface water. This can lead the to the creation of total trihalomethanes — which are carcinogenic.

“You have today one thousand cities today in violation of total trihalomethanes in their water,” she explained. “They are not following regulations and they found a way to cheat the system. And here is where we are having a national crisis. They’ve decided when they exceeded total trihalomethanes, not to do what’s regulated. And that’s to put on a carbon-regulated filtration system.”

“It’s expensive!” she exclaimed. “They don’t want to pay for it! So they’ve gone the cheap route and now they throw ammonia in the water system, and the ammonia has a chemical reaction and it eliminates the chlorine!”

Brockovich then noted that this is leading to outbreaks of Legionnaires disease across the country — including Flint — as well as brain-eating amoebas.

She then listed multiple states where “Flints are happening” before arriving at her point.

“But you know what pisses me off?” she asked Maher. “All of this is happening because of corrupt politics and f*cking greed, and it has to stop!”

Watch the video uploaded to YouTube:


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