They did serve the country and not themselves then the epic water crisis that took place in flint michigan back in april 2014 would never and should never have ever happened only now after more than 6 long years the people of flint michigan are finally getting some restitution for having their Drinking Water poisoned by the negligence and greed of their own State Government in a settlement announced on august 20th n. B. C. News reports that the state of michigan has agreed to pay 600000000. 00 to residents whose health was afflicted by lead tainted Drinking Water and that under that deal the state has agreed to devoting 80 percent of the money to people who are younger than 18. 00 during the period when flint was using river water. And while 600000000 may sound like this massive number for many in flint that doesnt even begin to compensate for the losses and anguish they have suffered as flint resident the key awakes who since 2014 has faced 22. 00 miscarriages of 2 separate sets of tw
Greetings and sell you to shoot. United states president john f. Kennedy famously stated ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country what makes this message this montra so vital is that it is true not just for us Service Working outside the halls of government but for those working inside those halls as well but quite frankly my friends as we have seen over and over and over and over again our elected leaders and government officials are no longer asking themselves what they can do for the country and they are instead asking what the country can do for them their party and their corporate lobbyists because if they did serve the country and not themselves then the epic water crisis that took place in flint michigan back in april 2014 would never and should never have ever happened. Only now after more than 6 long years the people of flint michigan are finally getting some restitution for having their Drinking Water poisoned by the negligence and greed o
Standard tropes of publishing a book is it has to answer the question why did you write about this topic in the question in the first place . You are supposed to have a thoughtful answer about how you had a lifelong interest in this topic and you always dreamed about exploring it more deeply. This topic was proposed to me by my publisher. I had a lifelong interest in china or almost a lifelong interest, having studied it, studied chinese going back many years and how they lived there a few years, and travels even today i go almost every year but my publisher actually finished my previous book and asked me to pick a year and write a book about it in china. Started looking through years and ive thought about 1938, interesting year in china. 1944, the year kicked out of china by shanghai check but Barbara Tuchman that topic, forever. So i started looking at 1945 until the end of world war ii until the an end of world war ii. It was a good topic. Really truly upset seminole watershed in Am
Only one. For a while i didnt think i was going to make it. Thank you all for coming. And again thank you to politics and prose for having me. One of kind of a standard tropes of publishing the book is that you have to answer the question why did you write about this topic in the first place. And you are supposed to a thoughtful answer about how youve had a lifelong interest in this topic and youve always dreamed about exploring it more deeply. In fact, this topic was supposed to be by my publisher. I have had a lifelong interest in china, almost a lifelong interest, having studied it studied chinese going back many many years and having lived there for a few years as the Time Magazine correspondent their, and traveled to there. Even today i go almost every year. But it was my publisher actually. I finished my previous book and he asked me to pick a year and write a book about in china. And so started looking through years, and i thought about 1938. Thats a very interesting year in chi