They didn’t force Flint to use the Flint River. Read up on it. After Detroit decided to terminate Flint’s contract early when they found out they were planning to change water sources, the mayor of Flint and city council voted to use it. The emergency manager just signed off on it. So then you had a city responsible…

How does that help when all the taxpayers in Flint elected Democrats for god knows how many years who bankrupted their city making promises they couldn’t keep? Republicans didn’t create the problem, it just blew up on them. It’s like if you have someone over to your house, and they stop up your toilet and don’t tell…

Not clear on how budgetary politics works in the real world, are you?

It’s the state (and the emergency managers) that’s responsible for the damaged pipes, though. Sure, Flint screwed up hard to get to that point, but they’re not the ones that switched water supplies and cheaped out on properly doing it with $100/day in anti-corrosives.

With what money? Flint has important public employee pensions to pay.