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The problem is it's a class action against the government that the people elected. The victims are both the petitioner and the defendant. Regardless of the amou
by loonster 5y ago
The problem is it's a class action against the government that the people elected. The victims are both the petitioner and the defendant. Regardless of the amount paid, the only beneficiaries are the lawyers.
- PascLeRasc 5y agoDid someone run on an agenda of making the water more acidic?
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"Regardless of the amount paid, the only beneficiaries are the lawyers." If government destroyed your house through negligence, say military plane dropped a bomb on it, would you want to be made whole, or would you still believe that "the only beneficiaries are the lawyers"?
- tzs 5y agoI think you might be failing to take into account that the population of Flint (the ones getting paid) is slightly less than 1% of the population of Michigan (the ones paying). It is essentially equivalent to a retroactive insurance system. It is as if everyone in Michigan had been required to buy "State appointed manager mishandles water system causing lead poisoning" insurance, and Flint is now having a claim paid under that insurance.