Chris Christie just privatized New Jersey's water.

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Chris Christie just privatized New Jersey's water. Good luck with that, New Jersey


By Walter Einenkel
Friday Feb 05, 2016 · 11:39 AM EST

I'm going to count down and leave one finger. Can you guess which one, New Jersey?
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Hurricane Sandy opportunist and all-around overgrown bully Governor Chris Christie has been sitting on a bill that would cut out citizens from the decision processconcerning whether or not their drinking water is privatized. Wait no longer, New Jersey. Yesterday, the Garden State’s AWOL governor signed the ironically named“Water Infrastructure Protection Act”—the irony is that it protects water from the people who drink it but not from being obliterated by private interests and the one percent’s whims.

The Water Infrastructure Protection Act, which purportedly aims to address aging infrastructure , allows for fast-tracking of sales of municipal water systems to private entities.

Among the sponsors of the measure, which passed the state legislature in December, was Senator Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth), who stated Thursday: "We recognize that there are times when private entities might be most capable of operating, maintaining and upgrading drinking water and sanitary wastewater systems,” and keeps "the public’s ability to be part of the process."

So cut funding to infrastructure and then cry about how the infrastructure is “aging.” It would be a stroke of genius if this were a 1950s pulp comic about a bad guy with a long mustache that he curls with his fingers while tying a woman in distress to a train track. But this isn’t a stroke of genius—it’s morally corrupt. What’s even worse is that Christie has budgeted out the environmental protections needed if New Jersey hopes to be able to keep their waters safe. This is in 2013:

After the biggest environmental disaster in state history, the governor didn’t mention the environment in his budget address Tuesday and he proposes a budget that takes away funding for people impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The governor is putting $40 million toward Sandy recovery, but his cuts to programs that would benefit rebuilding efforts are six times that amount.

Chris Christie is a terrible person. He’s a corrupt politician whose interests are solely his own edification and his desires seem to revolve mostly around getting to hug wealthy NFL owners in their luxury box suites, and purchase gratuitous amounts of sweets and snacks. That’s what corruption looks like.
Chris Christie just privatized New Jersey's water. Good luck with that, New Jersey

I feel like we were just talking about this shlt.

 

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Bonus:

Here’s Why Chris Christie’s Zika Quarantines Would Be Pointless
Public health experts were not impressed with his debate performance.
—By Tim McDonnell

| Mon Feb. 8, 2016 4:56 PM EST

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During Saturday night's Republican primary debate, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he would use quarantines to prevent the Zika virus outbreak from spreading in the United States. Froma Washington Post transcript:

MARTHA RADDATZ (ABC MODERATOR): Governor Christie, at the peak of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, you ordered an American nurse who landed at Newark Airport be detained and quarantined. As fear spreads now of the Zika virus and with the Rio Olympics just months away, is there a scenario where you would quarantine people traveling back from Brazil to prevent the spread in the United States?

CHRISTIE: You bet I would. And the fact is that because I took strong action to make sure that anyone who was showing symptoms—remember what happened with that nurse. She was showing symptoms and coming back from a place that had the Ebola virus active and she had been treating patients. This was not just some—like, we picked up her just for the heck of it, alright?

We did it because she was showing symptoms, and the fact is that's the way we should make these decision. You make these decisions based upon the symptoms, the medicine, and the law. We quarantined her, she turned out to test negative ultimately after 48 hours, and we released her back to the State of Maine.

That position might make for a tough-sounding talking point during a debate. But it's totally pointless as a matter of public health, experts said.

"Zika is rarely, if ever, spread from person-to-person, so quarantining infected people will do nothing to stem a Zika outbreak," said Laurie Garret, a global health expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.

"Quarantining infected people will do nothing to stem a Zika outbreak."
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus, has spread to more than one million people throughout Latin America. The symptoms of the virus itself are usually mild or non-existent. But it could be dangerous for pregnant women: Zika has been tentatively linked to a spike in cases of microcephaly, a birth defect in which infants are born with small heads and can have incomplete brain development.

Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California-Davis Children's Hospital, agreed that a quarantine wouldn't be much help in controlling an outbreak. "The vast majority of transmissions are from mosquito bites, and most of the country doesn't have the [Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti] mosquito in high concentrations," he said. "So I don't think [a quarantine] is necessary or would be beneficial in any way."

Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, gave a somewhat more measured response when asked a similar question about Zika during Saturday's debate:

CARSON: Do we quarantine people? If we have evidence that they are infected, and that there is evidence that that infection can spread by something that they're doing, yes. But, just willy-nilly going out and quarantining a bunch of people because they've been to Brazil, I don't believe that that's going to work. What we really need to be thinking about is how do we get this disease under control?

Christie received substantial criticism for his response to 2014's Ebola outbreak. He ordered the quarantine of a nurse, Kaci Hickox, after she returned from fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone. Last October, Hickox filed a lawsuit against Christie for false imprisonment and other claims, arguing that she had not, in fact, exhibited any symptoms indicative of Ebola when she landed at New Jersey's Newark airport. Ultimately, she did not end up having the virus. That legal case is ongoing.

"The merits of Christie's actions in the Hickox case will no doubt be decided in court, probably long after he has withdrawn from the presidential race," Garret said. "But his Zika comments can be addressed immediately."

Garret added that Christie didn't quarantine a woman who was New Jersey's first confirmed Zika case, identified in late January while visiting the state from Colombia.

Elizabeth Talbot, an epidemiologist at Dartmouth College's School of Medicine, said a more effective solution is to focus on controlling and eradicating the mosquitoes that can carry Zika.

"Our public health energies are best invested in providing education about preventing bites and prioritizing the protection of pregnant women by advising them to postpone travel to affected regions whenever possible," she said in an email. "The CDC is also recommending that meticulous attention be given to protect persons from mosquito bites if they are identified with Zika in the US following travel. This is so that our Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the southernmost US do not become infected with Zika and transmit Zika disease in the US. Preventing mosquito bites for ill patients is not the same thing as quarantine, which can be an inflammatory or even scary word."

Here’s why Chris Christie’s Zika quarantines would be pointless

 

[Red Shield]

Wonder which phase we're in of national collapse... when corruption just becomes so in your face

 

[88m3]

Wonder which phase we're in of national collapse... when corruption just becomes so in your face

Good question.

 

[Jhoon]

Wonder which phase we're in of national collapse... when corruption just becomes so in your face

What can you do? You're just some lonely voter. If you didn't want to have a bad life, maybe you shouldn't have been born poor.

 

[Red Shield]

What can you do? You're just some lonely voter. If you didn't want to have a bad life, maybe you shouldn't have been born poor.

wait whut

 

[.༼-◕_◕-༽.]

Wonder which phase we're in of national collapse... when corruption just becomes so in your face

I believe that the overall goal is to completely break the American public...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

So instead of spending money to fix these systems, they're just letting companies do it?

 

[acri1]

I believe that the overall goal is to completely break the American public...

Nah, there's no overall goal.

Just the rich/powerful doing whatever is necessary for them to stay rich/powerful and not really caring about how their actions affect anyone else. Story of humanity.

 

[Yapdatfool]

So instead of spending money to fix these systems, they're just letting companies do it?

Betcha Chris Soprano got a stake or two in these companies. Imagine having ownership in these companies, then signing in laws to give them public money

 

[↓R↑LYB]

The empire is crumbling y'all. Y'all better get prepared for when the fukkery happens

 

[Red Shield]

Betcha Chris Soprano got a stake or two in these companies. Imagine having ownership in these companies, then signing in laws to give them public money

A decade ago anyone would have had suspicions but figure.. they either wouldn't do it, wouldn't be obvious about it, or would be jailed if caught.

Now it's like.. wow. This shyt is just brazen





Can't fault Chris for it completely tho.. it's obvious this country is circling the drain. May as well siphon off as much as you can, before the collapse becomes totally in your face.

 

[BlackEfron]

Can someone give me an accurate date of when the collapse is going to happen

- blackierobinson

 

[Jhoon]

So instead of spending money to fix these systems, they're just letting companies do it?

Americans appear to have a fetish for lower taxes. Yeah, your taxes maybe low, but your expenses are higher anyway. Americans are dumb. It's why they silly things like, "I balance my account, why can't the federal government?"

They are just dumb.

 

[Jhoon]

wait whut

In nursing, there are things that can be modified. In the republican sphere of logic and reasoning, the choice of being poor and rich is up to the individual.