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Does anyone else feel like all of our institutions are crumbling in real time? And to the degree they still work is a product of momentum?
That being said I only saw 3 (eastern) states, maybe it's different elsewhere.
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Does anyone else feel like all of our institutions are crumbling in real time? And to the degree they still work is a product of momentum?
By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital ! It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
But Mississippi is one of the poorest states in that country.
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It’s a Southern thing. Alabama isn’t much better. It’s the worst place to have a child in the entire country. We have people without access to fresh water or sewer systems. We have people living in conditions worse than anything I ever saw in Haiti. And we keep voting to actively make it worse.
Wait till you find out about rural Alaska.
Does anyone else feel like all of our institutions are crumbling in real time? And to the degree they still work is a product of momentum?
It's not just Jackson, or the state of Mississippi. The US has overbuilt infrastructure since WW2. All of it was built on the assumption that infrastructure investment always leads to a massive expansion of the tax base and easily pays for itself, when in reality more and more of our investments have had a negative ROI. This is going to be the new normal for the US as many cities have continues to expand outward for…
Does anyone else feel like all of our institutions are crumbling in real time? And to the degree they still work is a product of momentum?
Along with the raiding of coffers, because everyone feels like "I need to get mine." Overly generous tax breaks, bailouts, "cancelling debt," etc. etc.
By all measures, this is due to the kind of neglect and mismanagement one would expect to see in an underdeveloped or war-torn country, not in a city inside a state that is part of the most powerful country on earth. And Jackson is the state's largest city and as well as its capital ! It must be so embarrassing for the politicians who have been running Mississippi. They've done a truly terrible, horrible job on this.
These are the people that have been running the city: - (D) Harvey Johnson Jr. [2009-2013] - (D) Chokwe Lumumba [2013-2014] - (D) Charles Tillman [2014] - (D) Tony Yarber [2014-2017] - (D) Chokwe Lumumba [2017-Present] From the article: > “No one is taking responsibility” for the crisis, she said. “You have the governor and the mayor blaming each other. They just keep going back and forth. Both of them knew the water…
"the State of Mississippi received $75 million to upgrade drinking water systems across the state, with an additional $429 million coming available over the next five years. But that money is in the hands of the state Legislature, not Jackson officials."
https://www.wjtv.com/news/jacksons-water-crisis/more-improve...