Flint’s Water a Recurring, Democrat Problem

From Breitbart's Big Government:

While in Detroit rallying union members yesterday President Obama discussed the water crisis in nearby Flint, Michigan, where government water authorities have knowingly supplied 100,000 residents with unhealthy, high lead level water.

The president says this demonstrated the need for more government.

It followed a week of Democrats calling for the resignation of Michigan’s Republican Governor for not solving the problem sooner. And blaming the crisis on Republican penny pinching.

As it turns out, many levels of government, and politicians and bureaucrats of both parties, have known that Flint residents were being supplied with poisonous water for months, including officials at the EPA.

The reason the crisis is happening is that politicians have incentives to defer maintenance and upgrades on infrastructure and instead spend public funds, even to the point of bankruptcy, on buying votes, especially from organized special interests like unions, with programs like luxurious pensions or bail outs of failing corporations. Like the unions Obama was in Detroit to rally.

The result is that citizens, in the words of analyst Mark Aesch, people “are paying Ritz Carlton level taxes and getting Bates Motel quality government.”

A Democrat run City, run by a Democrat approved City Manager. How is this a Republican problem?