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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Well Ron, yanno, Erie runs into lake ontario and im less than 2 miles from that lake, and it forms most of my water supply ...so I was being facetious, but practically every rwnj on here and other places has stated getting rid of regs and the EPA, mind you with our own conservative prime minister, who has given fresh water lakes away willy nilly, the rwnj assholes on this side are almost as bad.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Well Ron, yanno, Erie runs into lake ontario and im less than 2 miles from that lake, and it forms most of my water supply ...so I was being facetious, but practically every rwnj on here and other places has stated getting rid of regs and the EPA, mind you with our own conservative prime minister, who has given fresh water lakes away willy nilly, the rwnj assholes on this side are almost as bad.

Toledo has been Democrat-run for as long as I've lived here (22+ years; before that, I haven't ever looked into). The water treatment facilities are being fixed up so they no longer dump raw sewage into the Maumee River (actually, there is an issue coming up for the locals to vote on phase 3 [of 3] to upgrade the wastewater facilities after the EPA found them to be ridiculously lacking years ago). I don't think the actual water treatment plants that provide drinking water have been updated recently. The City of Oregon (borders Toledo's East side) gets about half it's water from Toledo, with the other half coming from Lake Erie. Oregon treats it's water from the city the same way it treats its water from the Lake. Oregon was not part of the drinking ban. No issues whatsoever with the water.

So, once again, we have an aging infrastructure that clearly (or unclearly, depending on your pun level) hasn't been kept up to date. Maybe the Feds should come in and rebuild Toledo's infrastructure. I'm sure that'll be a great use for taxpayer dollars coming from Idaho.

On a more comical note...



http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5378456/bill_murray_snl_classic_commercial/
(It's worth the few minutes to watch, especially in light of last weekend.)

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
So the answer is to tax the locals so they can provide clean water that the Feds will no longer require and make sure it is local democrats, that have to do it to maintain any clean drinking water so the repubs can blame them for too much local regs and higher taxes ?
Sounds like a plan.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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What would the Republican Solution Be?

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

To the troubled great lake: LAKE ERIE

Politically and scientifically the troubled state of Lake Erie cannot be denied -- and the impact costs affecting fishing, recreation, and clean drinking water are already severe. So, what would the Republican solution be to restoring lake?

You can't blame Obama, Hamas, Bergdahl, Islamists, welfare mothers, tree-huggers, immigrants, or liberals for the problem and conducting IRS hearings, Benghazi reviews and passing VOTER ID laws also won't help. Tax breaks and deregulation?

What kind of proposals could we even expect from Republicans?

TOLEDO, Ohio -- It took a serendipitous slug of toxins and the loss of drinking water for a half-million residents to bring home what scientists and government officials in this part of the country have been saying for years: Lake Erie is in trouble, and getting worse by the year.Flooded by tides of phosphorus washed from fertilized farms, cattle feedlots and leaky septic systems, the most intensely developed of the Great Lakes is increasingly being choked each summer by thick mats of algae, much of it poisonous. What plagues Toledo and, experts say, potentially all 11 million lakeside residents, is increasingly a serious problem across the United States.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

get rid of the EPA!!!!!!!

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Empower the states to handle their problems, where the leadership knows the people and the problems and is best suited to offer up and enforce practical solutions

While Adolf Hitler enjoyed total centralized federal control, we are not yet the Third Reich.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Well Ron, yanno, Erie runs into lake ontario and im less than 2 miles from that lake, and it forms most of my water supply ...so I was being facetious, but practically every rwnj on here and other places has stated getting rid of regs and the EPA, mind you with our own conservative prime minister, who has given fresh water lakes away willy nilly, the rwnj assholes on this side are almost as bad.

Toledo has been Democrat-run for as long as I've lived here (22+ years; before that, I haven't ever looked into). The water treatment facilities are being fixed up so they no longer dump raw sewage into the Maumee River (actually, there is an issue coming up for the locals to vote on phase 3 [of 3] to upgrade the wastewater facilities after the EPA found them to be ridiculously lacking years ago). I don't think the actual water treatment plants that provide drinking water have been updated recently. The City of Oregon (borders Toledo's East side) gets about half it's water from Toledo, with the other half coming from Lake Erie. Oregon treats it's water from the city the same way it treats its water from the Lake. Oregon was not part of the drinking ban. No issues whatsoever with the water.

So, once again, we have an aging infrastructure that clearly (or unclearly, depending on your pun level) hasn't been kept up to date. Maybe the Feds should come in and rebuild Toledo's infrastructure. I'm sure that'll be a great use for taxpayer dollars coming from Idaho.

On a more comical note...



http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5378456/bill_murray_snl_classic_commercial/
(It's worth the few minutes to watch, especially in light of last weekend.)

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Empower the states to handle their problems, where the leadership knows the people and the problems and is best suited to offer up and enforce practical solutions

While Adolf Hitler enjoyed total centralized federal control, we are not yet the Third Reich.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
So the answer is to tax the locals so they can provide clean water that the Feds will no longer require and make sure it is local democrats, that have to do it to maintain any clean drinking water so the repubs can blame them for too much local regs and higher taxes ?
Sounds like a plan.

The answer is to tax those who are benefiting from the sewer system and the drinking water system, to pay for those systems. Absolutely. Nowhere did I say to make sure it's the local Democrats that do it. I said the City has been run by Democrats since I've been here, and that the water system is obviously not been kept up.

Funny how I'm saying the locals should pay for the infrastructure they benefit from, and I'm being chastised over it.

Toledo isn't going red any time soon. The Unions will make sure of that.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

get rid of the EPA!!!!!!!

Empower the states to handle their problems, where the leadership knows the people and the problems and is best suited to offer up and enforce practical solutions

While Adolf Hitler enjoyed total centralized federal control, we are not yet the Third Reich.