FLINT WATER CRISIS A FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY

Todays Waterloo Region Record carrys this story titled "Casino capitolism made Flint crisis". The author Henry A. Giroux is a widely published social critic and a McMaster University professor. His basic thesis is that the intentional cost cutting of water services in Flint Michigan put the population in extreme danger knowingly. In order to balance budgets and or keep the good times rolling for those already in the top 5% financially it was deemed acceptable to put citizens health in harms way. "Flint makes clear that rather than considering children its most valuable resource, casino capitolism considers them surplus and throwaways in the unflagging pursuit of profits, power and the accumulation of capitol.". This of course relates to the lead poisoning which will have a much greater impact on children than on adults. This lead poisoning could have and should have been avoided but was not in order to save a nickel.