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Flint leadership deserves a lot of blame.

I read a story (can't find it) about a contractor who intended to do a high quality job taking care of the lead pipes ... but the city of Flint instead gave it to a different contractor, who charged more, did a crappier job (leaving many problems unfixed), used obsolete tech, and took longer.

But, the chosen contractor was politically connected, so ...

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The city of Flint was taken over by the state a long while ago. So the city would not have made that decision in any case.

The problem with Flint was that they thought having state government take them over and make all the decisions would result in better decisions being made. But that's not how it works. Sometimes, it just results in other people making bad decisions on your behalf.

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