Jeffrey Sachs Suggests Congress Partly Responsible for Flint Water Crisis

‘It’s beyond negligence because people were screaming for years that the water is unsafe, that they’re getting sick from it’

SCARBOROUGH: “So Willie, also  the EPA regional director got fired for suppressing the report.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Is there negligence here or something beyond — I don’t know, it just seems to me that —“
SACHS: “It’s beyond negligence because people were screaming for years that the water is unsafe, that they’re getting sick from it. But the fact of the matter is also that infrastructure is crumbling across this country. Congress has not funded infrastructure in a systematic way for decades now. Fallows talked just a minute ago about Great Depression era we’re still living on or the highway system which is a half century old.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Even look at Manhattan. We have the Triborough Bridge, the Lincoln tunnel, they way you shroud get in and out of it--everything was built in the ‘30s.”
SACHS: “75 years ago, 80 years ago.”
SCARBOROUGH: “It’s outrageous.”
SACHS: “And you look at the numbers, we are not investing and we’re not raising the funds to make the most basic investments in this country.”

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