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Colorado lawmaker, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and Senate
Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.
The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.
Boebert criticized the move, calling the bill “completely non-controversial” and pointed out that it passed the House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.
3/4 of the US outside major metros should be classified as a developing country. We have many areas that barely have functional plumbing, let alone any other type of developed infrastructure.
Which is even worse when you know that most of these places were doing pretty solid up until the 1970s-1980s, they’ve spent 50 to 40 fucking years slowly decaying while the feds and to an extent the states sat on their assess doing nothing. Fun act did you know that The Learning Channel has its roots in Appalachia as a way of educating the masses there. Sure some of them got fucked over by simple inevitably factors like the collapse of the logging industry up in NorCal, but others were fucked over by bad government policies that empowered corporations and fucked over smaller co-ops, independent farms, and small corporate farms.
Considering what The Learning Channel turned into, that’s a perfect microcosm of the sort of shit that’s happened to them over the last few decades.
I’m in my 30s and I, briefly, lived in a house with no running water some years ago. I agree that most people don’t realize how far behind the rural areas are.
The Navajo nation in New Mexico just got widespread electricity in the last 20 years. In other parts of the country, Natives still live without power.
A lot of people don’t have any idea how desperate life is for the poorest in this country.
I believe it. I had grandparents in Appalachia that didn’t even get indoor plumbing until the mid-1990s, and they were the first in their area. There are many places with some insane levels of poverty in the US that the state and federal governments just give zero fucks about.