Jackson Mississippi Has No Water To Even Flush Toilets

[QUOTE] What can they do?

Uhh, move?

Its terrible but most areas in the US, outside of a few of the major metros, will suffer similarly due to extreme weather caused by climate change. The only reason larger cities have invested in new infrastructure is because they had to deal with growth. Most other places are relying on systems that are so old they will totally crumble.

This is a disgusting show of partisan vindictiveness. The Governor and legislature require Jackson to satisfy certain requirements. The only city in the state. Jackson is being "punished." This is outrageous.

California Rule, if it’s yellow, it’s mellow.

If it’s brown, flush it down. It’s a new world folks. Too many people chasing too little resources.

It's peak hurricane season, I'm sure there will be water soon

I hear that Pakistan has got a lot of surplus water right now. Maybe they could send some to Jackson.

Jackson is one ugly city. Since its residents are mostly poor and POC, not a lot of effort is going to be done to help them out. Sad.

How can a state that isn't land locked run out of water? Couldn't they desalinate the water on their southern boarder and use that, or is it still tainted from the oil spill a few years ago?

[quote]Its terrible but most areas in the US, outside of a few of the major metros, will suffer similarly due to extreme weather caused by climate change.

This has nothing to do with climate change. The problem there goes back to the 40s. They never fixed their system.

With Tater “Blob Fish” Reeves in charge, things will work out GREAT…

What goes around comes around.

This is where amazon could earn some goodwill and step in with limitless bottled water.

"How can a state that isn't land locked run out of water? Couldn't they desalinate the water on their southern boarder and use that, or is it still tainted from the oil spill a few years ago?"

They absolutely could - at least for water not used for drinking (but maybe that too), but desalinization plants aren't built quickly, cost a lot to operate, use a lot of energy, and produce waste (though probably acceptable waste given what's at stake).

[quote] This has nothing to do with climate change.

Except it does. In fact, it's stated right there in the article you posted R9. Did you even read it?

[bold] Recent flooding, operational failures and understaffing at the treatment plant—and decades-long infrastructure decay, have culminated in an indefinite failure in the supply of safe tap water to Jackson water customers.

The Pearl River, which runs through the city, began flooding this past weekend and damaged the already vulnerable treatment plant [/bold]

R4 what if it’s blue?

R6 - or maybe we could just ship Mississippi to Pakistan.

US = 3rd world country

READ an article before commenting on it, R14?! Are you insane?

Having just worked in Mississippi this summer (east of Jackson and in Hattiesburg), the tap and toilet water at our hotels was brown. I only drank bottled water-I wasn't taking chances on their brown sludge water.

😳 I think the Earth is about to shut down permanently.

What exactly are Republicans voting for when they vote Republican? This shit?

R20 The earth will be fine, not so much the life on it. The life on it will perish and disappear for several million years.

Mississippi Goddam.

And the earth will be better for it, R22. Let the animals survive until the sun gobbles up the earth.

R6 wait a second, the issue in Jackson is not drought, it's caused by flood, the exact same disaster as in Pakistan, the heavy rain caused the flood everywhere and damaged the river and polluted the water source, they have plenty of water just none drinkable.

Mississippi being full of republicans accounts for ane ven worse natural disaster that's been going on for decades.

R26 but probably not in Jackson which is overwhelmingly black, nearly 80% population are black.

Cities do not have sovereignty in the US. Only states have sovereignty and they rarely give cities very much, particularly if the cities are black majority.

A lot of these folks complaining just aren't being resourceful. Why don't they jet to their vacation homes in Colorado or Leelanau and work remotely for a time, or buy an iceberg from the Danes and have it towed down to the Gulf? New times demand adjustments!

"[R26] but probably not in Jackson which is overwhelmingly black, nearly 80% population are black."

I can see the white crackers in state government not caring about the black residents of Jackson, but the city is the state capitol. Surely the white state legislators and white bureaucrats need to flush their precious shit down the toilet, no?

83%, R27

Jackson, a black city, has consistently met strong resistance in the Mississippi congress for improvement of infrastructure

If they are white, they could stop voting for Repugs.

If they are black, they could start voting, period.

[quote]Its terrible but most areas in the US, outside of a few of the major metros, will suffer similarly due to extreme weather caused by climate change.

The major metros will be the first to fall in any national disaster. Too many people, too few resources. Plus, the majority of the major metro area in the country (and the world) are by major waterways. That's how they came to be major metro areas. Unfortunately, the people in the best position are the ones in the sparsely populated areas of the country with well water who can grow their own food...at least until the supertornadoes show up.

Another reason to move out of Mississippi.

I'm going to Jackson

Where the water's brown

Jackson

If there's even water around.

[quote]How can a state that isn't land locked run out of water?

They didn't "run out of water" - the water infrastructure in Jackson is falling apart because it's old and they have no money to maintain it. It leaks and it allows contaminants to enter.

Of course the Republican governor pushed through a big state tax cut last year so you can see where his priorities are.

What? You mean electing public officials who scream about the gays and spend all their time and resources on making abortions illegal leave you with failing public works?

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Well, I guess god will just have to provide. I think praying is in order.

We are the new dinosaurs.

We'll live our best lives NOW, and we'll be dead when the crisis really kicks up just a few short decades from now. Fuck ya'll.

[quote]If they are black, they could start voting, period.

Those shithole states do everything to make it far more difficult for black ppl to vote.

R12 Plastic bottles create climate change.

Town of trouble

R4: "Too many people chasing too little resources" Exactly! People don't seem to understand that.

Don’t these folks just shit in an outhouse anyway? No need to flush.

Jackson is the capital of Mississippi. Doesn't the governor and Republican legislature care that they can't take a piss or brush their teeth in the very city they work in? Or do government officials there have some sort of VIP water system separate from the one they've defunded, which the little people have to use?

It's been a known problem that the Jackson water infrastructure was old and collapsing. The real problem is decades of neglect and underfunding.

Great article about this from last year.

Flood damage is the republican line r2. That's just the straw that broke the Camel's back.

R46, they probably live outside the city, so aren’t affected.

Awful

The federal government will clean up the mess for yet another seditious state gop.

I am very thankful for the Jackson residents that they have an ally in the WH.

If only Mississippi taxed its wealthy…

[Quote] Doesn't the governor and Republican legislature care that they can't take a piss or brush their teeth in the very city they work in?

More important to keep the rich happy than to tax them

The world population had doubled since 1978-ish. Stop all abortions and start having 10 to 15-child families again, we will be depleted in no time. Are republicans actually demons that want to destroy the earth... not a question.

[quote] republicans … demons that want to destroy the earth

Mary!

R54, yes. It's the religious desire to bring about the apocalypse because they all think they'll go to heaven. It's why they loved Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem. They think it's going to hasten the second coming.

“The Federal Highway Administration has awarded Michigan $50 million to reimburse emergency road and bridge repairs after heavy rain and dam failures in 2020 caused widespread flooding in mid-Michigan.“

This will be what Jackson gets a couple years down the road too, I imagine…and Kentucky and Texas.

What a wonderful con. You all have to DIE so you can live forever in paradise. So middle eastern.

This is a result of the GOP's decades-long "no new taxes", anti-public spending platform. Add to that the reality that most Southern states pride themselves on their low taxes, instead depending on Uncle Sugar (i.e. the blue states) to bail them out every time they have a crisis. It's well known their infrastructure is the least adequate and in the worst shape as a result.

[quote] Unfortunately, the people in the best position are the ones in the sparsely populated areas of the country with well water who can grow their own food.

Spoken by someone who hasn't a goddamn fucking clue. Here's the reality, chum: wells need pumps. Pumps need electricity. No cities, no rural electric service, no water. And as for food, they again need water to do that, plus they need seeds, fertilizer, tractors, tools, freezers, canning supplies - all of which comes from cities. Not to mention that the amount of arable land needed to grow enough food to support a family for a year is larger than most people can manage single-handedly. They'd all be spending almost all of their time farming, leaving little time to make, fix, or earn anything else.

If the urban centers collapse, the rural areas follow in short order. Even the Amish would find themselves in trouble, since they depend on so much store-bought supplies: canning jars and lids, salt, fabric, shoes - the list of essentials goes on and on.

“The State of Mississippi is determined to recover from this water crisis,” Reeves said in his Tuesday evening letter, but added that “Mississippi will not be able to recover without the aid of the federal government.”

The governor acknowledged Biden’s declaration in a tweet just before midnight Tuesday.“

“Residents of Jackson, Miss., are being told to shower with their mouths shut, as the city entered its fourth day on Thursday with unsafe water trickling from their faucets, CNN reported. “

[quote] Except it does. In fact, it's stated right there in the article you posted

No, it doesn’t.

Just another fact in the rapid decline of this country.

Can't they find *anything* to flush the toilets with? Like a 2011 California Cabernet, or whatever that soda the maids buy? What is it? Shasta?

This doesn't seem like a very hard problem to solve.

I'll go out on a limb here. It's not about politics....EVERY home should have a water tank or 2 saving your rain water. I've come thru many droughts in Australia, 11 years for one in Sydney. Use your water wisely...it's not hard. Shorter showers...put a bucket under the shower to collect the water while it warms up, then put that on your garden. Laundry waste water (grey water) can be used on your garden or vegetable patch. DON'T flush the toilet every use, then only a half flush if you have a dual flush. (yes you'll get used to it). Don't leave the tap on when brushing teeth. Saving every drop of rain water is precious...water efficient devices like shower heads, front loading washing machines etc. Don't grow bloody lawns/grass such a waste. Succulents and hard natives that look after themselves. Rant over.

[quote] Favre has repaid the fees, although not the $228,000 in interest the auditor also demanded. But the revelation by the auditor that $70 million in TANF welfare funds was doled out to a multimillionaire athlete, a professional wrestler, a horse farm and a volleyball complex are at the heart of a scandal that has rocked the nation’s poorest state, sparking parallel state and federal criminal investigations that have led to charges and guilty pleas involving some of the key players.

How many others haven’t been caught?

They should question Brett Farve about his disappointingly small dick pic.

Residents are now told when they take showers, to keep their mouths closed

Just let the pollution and dangerous particles saturate your skin, not in your mouth. You'll get used to it.

Well I think this is restitution for voting record that’s just deplorable. I bet it stinks in their houses.

Here's the problem: affirmative-action socialist mayor.

Yes troll, a mayor that assumed office 7 years ago is responsible for the decades of neglect and deferred maintenance of their water system r71.

Oh dear, is that the best talking point the right has.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba is the son of Chokwe Lumumba and Nubia Lumumba.

He got a Juris Doctorate and a certificate in sports and entertainment law.

[quote]So middle eastern.

You do know where Christianity is from, right?

Yes, that was the joke. Must everything be spoon fed?

In other news resident of Jackson Mississippi demand: "Stop us before we kill again. We can't help re-electing people who don't give a crap about us. Oh, and send us MORE money," said residents of Mississippi, the third most dependent state on Federal money, eight of the top ten of which are RED states.

[quote]For every $1 paid in income tax in Mississippi, the state takes in $2.53 in federal funding. That’s the second-largest ratio of federal funding to income taxes paid in our study. Meanwhile, 47.31% of state revenues come from federal funding, which is the seventh-highest percentage of all 50 states. Additionally, Mississippi has the 11th-largest percentage of workers employed by the federal government (3.23%).

[quote]EVERY home should have a water tank or 2 saving your rain water.

Until recently that was illegal where I live in the US because we are so closer to drought conditions, collecting the rain water prevents it from getting to the land (even though ostensibly it would eventually anyway, but people could be using it to water potted plants and for other things that don't reach the land).

[quote]Until recently that was illegal where I live in the US because we are so closer to drought conditions, collecting the rain water prevents it from getting to the land (even though ostensibly it would eventually anyway, but people could be using it to water potted plants and for other things that don't reach the land).

This little video is actually pretty interesting.

R78, Tucson has an urban forestry program where they pledged in 2020 to plant 1 million trees by 2030.

Chicago was suppose to rip up its alleys and replacethem with grass. Never h appened,

[quote]Spoken by someone who hasn't a goddamn fucking clue. Here's the reality, chum: wells need pumps. Pumps need electricity. No cities, no rural electric service, no water. And as for food, they again need water to do that, plus they need seeds, fertilizer, tractors, tools, freezers, canning supplies - all of which comes from cities. Not to mention that the amount of arable land needed to grow enough food to support a family for a year is larger than most people can manage single-handedly. They'd all be spending almost all of their time farming, leaving little time to make, fix, or earn anything else.

This fucking moron seems to think humans didn't exist before about 100 years ago.

Also thinks cities are full of tractor factories and seed production plants. And, we all know that the highlight of any city visit is the fertilizer plant! Also thinks that wells only work if there's an electrical pump attached. Never even heard of a bucket. What city do you live in, moron?

Jackson, the new Venezuela. Lumumba should feel right at home.

What has he been doing since he took office about this mess? He was talking about how bad it was that people were retiring and there were no replacements to fill jobs needing experience.

Do Republican governors intentionally let water systems go bad? Is this a favor to their corporate overlords?

Help us. Someone, help us.

Because they don't care about black people, r83. See also: Flint, MI.

Jackson is 80% black and the Republican state government sure as hell isn't going to do anything to help them.

Jackson has had democrat mayors since the 19th century.

On the list of the twenty most dangerous cities in America

The capital city of Mississippi, Jackson, has 164,422 people. The city’s crime rates keep surging, with five murders per 100,000, making it four times higher than the national average. Other violent crimes include 43 rapes per 100,000 and 86 robberies per 100,000. Property crime rates like car theft, burglary, and arson are also high.

The community doesn't seem oriented towards facing and dealing with problems.

[quote]Jackson has had democrat mayors since the 19th century.

I can never figure out if the people who use 'democrat' as an adjective are just too stupid to understand that it immediately gives them away for the Fox conservatards they are or if they think it's clever even though it's the most ridiculous and childish idiocy they could possibly come up with.

[quote]Lumumba swept into office on a tide of rhetoric and ambition that drew national attention. He laid out an expansive vision of how Jackson could become a model for the country, promising to use City Hall to deliver not just better services, but a whole menu of new progressive ideas like universal basic income, co-operative businesses and alternatives to policing. He talked about replacing abandoned lots with urban farms. And in a city that is 82 percent Black — a higher rate than any other big city in the country — he framed his promises in elevated, historical terms, promising to rewrite the story of race and commerce in the region from one of exploitation to one of empowerment.

Maybe if the mayor had focused on providing clean water instead of the nuttiness, the people in the city would not be in this situation. Considering he had been re-elected, the people of Jackson got the government they deserved, although not the government they needed.

Something tells me civil infrastructure never much interested the mayor.

The Honorable Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Esq. is the son of two life-long community activists—the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and Nubia Lumumba. His father was born in Detroit Finley Taliaferro, and changed his in 1969 after joining the Republic of New Afrika secessionist movement in honor of the African communist leader Patrice Lumumba

Lumumba began his community work early on—serving as co-director of the Malcolm X Grassroots Day Camp and acting as an assistant coach for the Jackson Panthers Basketball Organization. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005 from Tuskegee University where he served as president of both the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society and the Tuskegee Political Science Association. As an undergraduate, Attorney Lumumba also represented the institution on a national level as a member of the Tuskegee Bio-Ethics Debate Team and was honored as the 2005 Gwendolyn M. Patton Student Scholar Activist.

Attorney Lumumba earned his juris doctorate and a certificate in sports & entertainment law from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas in 2008.

In 2013, he launched his own firm—Lumumba & Associates—a firm “Dedicated to Community. Invested in Justice.”

Attorney Lumumba’s deep-seated commitment to his community expands beyond his career. As a founding member of the Mississippi Human Rights Collective, he co-organized the “Stand Up to Take It Down” rally at the State capitol to support the removal of the confederate insignia from the Mississippi State flag. He currently serves as the media representative of the Coalition for Economic Justice and is an active member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.

His lifelong objective is to continue to struggle on behalf of oppressed peoples worldwide, so that they may eventually obtain the self-determined lives they so justly deserve. He firmly supports the concepts of community and family and the belief of the community as a family and pledges to do all that he can to make that concept live.

Chokwe Antar is married to Ebony Lumumba and the couple has two daughters, Alake’ Maryama and Nubia Ngozi.

People focused on continuing to struggle on behalf of oppressed peoples worldwide have more important things to do than think about plumbing.

Blah blah blah R89. THe truth is Jackson has been kept from fixing its problems by the republican-dominated Mississippi legislature and governor, the same ones who have been stealing w elfare funds intended for the p o or. Don't try to change the subject. Republicans are very much the architects of misgovernance and collapsing infrastructure because they are not a POLITICAL party at all but a criminal mob.

It's republicans who are the archetypal "Looters" and they can hide behind Ayn Rand's corrupt fantasies all they like, they can't change the facts that the only good republican is a dead one

[quote]they can't change the facts that the only good republican is a dead one

Because that doesn't sound at all like maga-idiots...

[quote]For every $1 paid in income tax in Mississippi, the state takes in $2.53 in federal funding.

As a New Englander from an affluent area, I'm perfectly happy to subsidize these poorer areas—as long as they use the money productively on infrastructure etc., and not just to line the pockets of corrupt Confederate hogs as they're doing now.

R88, aging infrastructure is a problem throughout the country. Many places have 100 year old infrastructure; it seems the problem is when it was built a plan was never put in place for when and how to replace it. Smaller cities throughout the South and West do not have enough money to fix their infrastructure, which is already rated a D+ by civil engineers and getting worse with time.

Only 2.4 percent of US GDP is spent on infrastructure. What could make that better? People are spending their money on other things, or just disagree so much politically they can’t come up with a way to raise the money.

“Moreover, the fact that all taxpayers got a tax cut over the past several decades, despite increases in federal spending, means that increases in transfers to low- and middle-income households came at the expense of other federal spending, including productive government investments in infrastructure and research, and rising deficits. In short, reduced rates on high-income taxpayers have not only made the tax system less progressive but also impaired other fiscal goals.“

A name like "Chokwe Lumumba" is radioactive to all the White Supremacists who run Mississippi.

[quote]People focused on continuing to struggle on behalf of oppressed peoples worldwide have more important things to do than think about plumbing.

When are all the idiots in the Democrat-controlled cities going to realize this?

[quote]Attorney Lumumba earned his juris doctorate and a certificate in sports & entertainment law . . .

Of course. You don't get to meet celebrities if you do plumbing law.

[quote]THe truth is Jackson has been kept from fixing its problems by the republican-dominated Mississippi legislature and governor,

That's the JOB of the mayor, to get resources from the state. Thousands of cities have mayors whose party differs from the state majority.

Love the confederates on this thread blaming the black mayor for not extracting money from the white supremacist state government—whose main goal is to funnel money to the rich and defund public works, esp. those that serve black residents.

The magats are in total meltdown and pretzel twisting mode! Deflecting, blaming, false equivalencies…

What a bunch of losers.

Don't drink rainwater either. Use it for watering the lawn.

You don't necessarily need to be a White Supremacist to dislike his idea of walking off with five states. Though the new LatinX replacement demographic might approve that segregation.

Jackson, just do what Heidi and I do when there's an environmental crisis: fly to Cancun and check into the Ritz Carleton.

R102, isn’t it the mayor’s father who was part of that movement many years ago? Not the mayor himself, who was born in 1983. Actually the mayor had been vocal about infrastructure issues in Jackson and elsewhere last year.

isn’t it the mayor’s father who was part of that movement many years ago?

The father yes. The son as well though not as loudly.

Early in his mayoralty, Lumumba had a chant he would recite during rallies: “Free the land,” “Free the land,” “Free the land,” with the crowd chanting the words back. He would end the call and response with: “By any means necessary.” 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒌𝒂’𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒂𝒏, one that Lumumba’s father also used when he spoke.

Today, the hallway leading to Lumumba’s office is lined with portraits of civil rights icons: Patrice Lumumba, Medgar Evers, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer. Lumumba calls it Liberation Row.

“It’s a very nice place to live. We just ain’t got no water,” Gaines said. “And most senior citizens ain’t got no car, so we have to get water wherever we can.”

Both Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and Democratic President Joe Biden declared emergencies this week to enable faster government action. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell was scheduled to visit the city later Friday.

Reeves has stressed cooperation among state, local and federal officials but tensions among politicians have been evident.

Biden sounded critical of Reeves in remarks to reporters at the White House late Thursday.

“We’ve offered every single thing available to Mississippi. The governor has to act," Biden said. "There’s money to deal with this problem. We’ve given them EPA. We’ve given them everything there is to offer.”

Reeves, the governor, had made it his mission to cut state income taxes. It’s hard to imagine how you can fix infrastructure in Jackson or anywhere else if the state has no money, since it’s a public utility issue. The mayor had been trying to get the pipes repaired last year but they weren’t fixable- they are so brittle they need to be replaced. Even the federal money offered is not going to be enough. It’s a massive project.

“This isn’t just a tax cut; it’s an investment in Mississippians,” Gov. Reeves said at the bill signing. “And as we’ve said before, this is the ideal time to do it. Over the last few years, our state has consistently and dramatically outperformed our revenue expectations. We’ve brought in billions of dollars more than initially projected.“

Where did the billions of dollars more than originally projected go?

Flashback to an article from 2020.

[quote]Uhh, move?

Sure, everyone has enough $ a security deposit, rent, and moving fees to immediately move out of Jackson, even if their jobs and family members needing care are there.

^ *enough $ for a

Many mayors across the country who govern a depressed area, spend a lot of time as part of their job to grow the tax base by bringing in business. That's a very different mind set than someone who just sits around and waits for a handout from the state. Of course, a lot of excuses and deflection are going to be used to try to take blame away from this mayor and to not look at all at what he did wrong and what he didn't do at all but should have.

R92, you're in a war. You have to fight back. Calling me "just as bad as them" is a non-starter. This is a fucking war we are in.

Thanks Confederates!

Yeah well Jackson did draw business, a psychopath named Bernie Ebbers. See how that turned out. The national capital for Ecstasy Production where most people can't read because republicans have kept the schools the worst in the nation is not likely to become Sillicon Pineywoods anytime soon.

Mississippi is the Third World.

R111, Jackson is doing everything they can to build businesses. They also raised millions of dollars by increasing their own sales tax in 2014.

“Attorney Brad Pigott filed a July 11 subpoena on University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation regarding the $5 million it received to build a volleyball stadium — the single largest known purchase within the state’s massive welfare embezzlement scandal. About a week later, Pigott was fired by Reeves’ welfare agency.“

Reeves was involved in getting campaign funding from people who embezzled money out of the state’s welfare system. He’s a corrupt politician and he’s also been diverting money away from Jackson the entire time he’s been in power.

[quote]The national capital for Ecstasy Production

Do they deliver?

No b ut you can travel to the nearest truckstop and look for MIssissippi plates if that's what you're into.

How’s Mrs. Hillie holding up? All those toilets from her front yard are effectively useless.

Just think about all the money sent to the Ukraine to fund the war .....

C'mon, Man ... there must be some spare money lying around to help out these fine AMERICANS !

😓 [italic] I Feel Your Pain

Money above all else

[quote] You don't necessarily need to be a White Supremacist to dislike his idea of walking off with five states.

Walking off?

I would like to know if the people of Jackson regret in any way how they voted in the last several elections. If no, then I have no sympathy for people who deliberately vote for incompetent government and have no regret about it.

R20 civilization as we know it is about done, that's for sure.

In Mississippi, White Republicants hold all Statewide offices, thus almost all power. The current corruption episode involves them diverting federal “welfare money” to Brett Farve and USM for a sports facility. It’s no mistake that the power structure in Mississippi allowed this to happen to Jackson, a City with 85% Black population. Not surprisingly, Mississippi is the least progressive of all 50 States in issues related to LGBT status. A funny story I tell my California friends and family, is that my daughter and I went on a couple college (HBCUs) campus tours a few years back. We were able to see the Jackson Pride festival. I pointed out that the two groups protesting Pride were still segregated (one entirely White, one entirely Black). I thought it was hilarious. As much as they hated each other, the yokel local hets could agree on one thing: they hated us more. Lol. It is still 1959 in Mississippi, a national disgrace.

Fema, do your job.

NPR has a very predictable take on the problem. NOT incompetent infrastructure management.

The crisis in Jackson shows how climate change is threatening water supplies -- September 7, 2022

[quote] The newly released texts, filed Monday by an attorney representing Nancy New’s nonprofit, show that Bryant, Favre, New, Davis and others worked together to channel at least $5 million of the state’s welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre’s daughter played the sport. Favre received most of the credit for raising funds to construct the facility.

For better or worse what otherwise happens in state appropriations has nothing to do with Jackson's mismanagement.

The ice storms back in February of 2020 really harmed the MidSouth. From where I live 8n Memphis to Arkansas and Mississippi it was just ghastly. It was record setting. Some cities like mine and Jackson Mississippi are crummy in terms of infrastructure to begin with and that ice storm didn't exactly help things along.

Memphis almost wound up like Jackson Mississippi in regard to the drinking water but the "geography of things" in terms of the aquifers (some of which are naturally occurring) saved the day.

The South is screwed up in parts. Some of these infrastructure issues in Memphis and Jackson Mississippi are because they are 80 plus years old and the like. Hell. There was a flooding issue in Memphis more than a couple of years ago where I learned that some of our infrastructure dates back to Eisenhower's administration.

All those innocent people in Jackson deserve better. Jesus! Take a shower with your mouth closed?! One still has eyes, ears, and their privates for goodness sakes!

This is all sad to me. I just can't.

R2. I live on the east coast of central Florida-duh...we have people here that refuse to believe there is a problem because “I’ve been living on the river for 20 yrs and the water level of the river by my home is still the same as when I first moved in.”

They just don’t get it

[quote] The South is screwed up in parts. Some of these infrastructure issues in Memphis and Jackson Mississippi are because they are 80 plus years old and the like.

And yet, R134, Tennessee is "represented" by a Home Ec major who was a door-to-door bible salesperson

[quote] Marsha Blackburn’s Net Worth is $35 Million US Dollars. Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States senator from Tennessee. ... Marsha Blackburn has inherited over $17 Million from family and also has millions of dollars in business income.

[quote] Marsha Blackburn has bought a luxury house property recently for $7 Million Dollars. Marsha Blackburn currently resides in a sprawling 8,500 square foot home located in Laurel, Mississippi.

[quote] Marsha Blackburn owns over 5 real estate properties, 7 Cars, 2 Luxury Yachts. Marsha Blackburn’s Assets also includes Cash reserves of over $8 Million. Marsha Blackburn also owns an investment portfolio of 13 stocks that is valued at $17 Million

[quote] Marsha Blackburn has received enormous cash donations during her office tenure. Marsha Blackburn’s net worth is expected to grow at a rate of 21% over the next few years.

Are the state governor and legislators doing this to pander to racist/city-hating voters, or are they doing it so that the Federal government will pay for repairs?

Keith Boykin:

[quote] Jackson, Mississippi applied for state bonds to fix its aging water system.

[quote] Governor Tate Reeves (then the state treasurer) bragged that he blocked the bonds.

[quote] Then Jackson tried to raise its sales tax to pay for it. The Republican legislature said no.

^ Racist fat fuck

^ you forgot "punchable face" somewhere in there

[quote] I can never figure out if the people who use 'democrat' as an adjective are just too stupid to understand that it immediately gives them away

That like people who use the word 'progressive' as an adjective because it immediately gives them away as fools.

DeFucktard has arrived. Wait for the sock*uppets.

I'll just scratch that off the move to list.

Miss a sip

Jackson's mayor and city council is majority black and has been Democratic controlled for the last 30 years.

The city does not suffer from a lack of water, they suffer from a lack of maintenance.

I'll leave it to you to figure out whose pockets the tax dollars are going to.

They need to drink their own pee water. Ice pea, it's the new tea.

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[quote] It probably goes without saying, but the people who stand the most to benefit from cutting the grocery tax is the state's poor and working class.

[quote] The people who benefit most from corporate tax cuts are, of course, wealthier.

OP maybe they could import some from Florida. Just watch out for the alligators

r59. So angry and so incorrect. Rural people know how to make wells function without electricity. And we don't have to rely on store bought fertilizer. We have livestock, chickens etc which provide fertilizer. Plus we can feed ourselves with what we grow. And we share with each other. We barter.

You're off base, buddy. I know it makes you feel better in your white box in the City to proclaim that all will suffer equally when cities fail but this is not the case.

[quote] I know it makes you feel better in your white box in the City to proclaim that all will suffer equally when cities fail but this is not the case.

Hank said it well

They can eat shit.

They really, truly live to hate...

R154 is full of it. You think most rural people are growing their own vegetables? Trust me, they're not. I grew up in Pennsyltucky, I would know. Most people in rural areas don't even eat vegetables, just junk food from the local supermarket. And I don't know anyone who barters or raises their own livestock.

Actually, I do know rural people who have kitchen gardens and who forage for blackberries, and who have chickens or ducks, and who are always giving each other home-grown tomatoes or home-made jams, or extra genuine free-range eggs or pasture-fed organic cuts of meat.

They're all middle-class professionals who retired to the country, or who moved there for a second career or to work from home, and who are enjoying a bit of "the simple life" on their acres in the country. They have more time and resources than the actual rural poor.

[quote][R46], they probably live outside the city, so aren’t affected.

There was a (debunked) rumor circulating about a month ago that Reeves had a tanker truck delivering water to the governor's mansion. I wouldn't put it past him, though, to have a second house in Madison or Ridgeland.

R145 Everybody knows Republicans have controlled Mississippi for forty years, sixty if you include Goldwater republicans.

While Lauren Boebert is ranting like a jackass about the bill "sexualizing children" (because it earmarks funding for LGBT youth), there is actually a fuckton of good in this omnibus bill

[quote] The bill includes $600 million to help fund Jackson's beleaguered water system. The water system, which some have estimated may need as much as $1 billion to come into compliance with an Environmental Protection Agency consent decree, would receive $600 million from the EPA in the 4,155-page spending bill.

...and...

AGAIN

(On Christmas Day)

[quote] Two days ago, two-thirds of Mississippi's congressional delegation voted AGAINST giving $600 million to the capital city of Jackson to address the Jackson Water Crisis.

[quote] And now, on Christmas, the entire city is without safe running water after breaks caused by the winter freeze.