Jim Alfredson

"Flint started drinking water from the Flint River — but ended up contaminating children with a poisonous heavy metal. Governor Rick Snyder has declared a state of emergency, and the federal government is investigating.

Why on Earth did they do this? Austerity. Aside from the obvious humanitarian disaster, this is a stark demonstration of austerity's false economy. Trying to be cheap on Flint's water supply will end up costing the state of Michigan (and probably the country as a whole) a ton more money than it would have to fix it properly in the first place."

But clean water is socialism!!! It's the population of Flint's fault for not paying their bills! (I've actually read that argument more than once.)

http://theweek.com/articles/597755/how-michigan-literally-poisoned-entire-city-save-few-bucks