Biden announces proposal to replace all lead water service lines in US within 10 years
The Biden administration has announced a proposal to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years,” the White House said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the White House, more than 9.2 million American households connect to water through lead pipes and lead service lines and, due to “decades of inequitable infrastructure development and underinvestment,” many Americans are at risk of lead exposure.
“There is no safe level of exposure to lead, particularly for children, and eliminating lead exposure from the air, water, and homes is a crucial component of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic commitment to advancing environmental justice,” the Biden administration said.
Waiting for a Republican to call this a woke, gay, Chinese conspiracy or whatever.
Why? I'm sure there are some vocal extremists who will shit on anything Biden does, but I know quite a few republicans and all them support this move. Do democrats and republicans really live under the illusion they're so different from one another instead of almost exactly the same like they are?
I used to be a republican when I was young, mostly because they understand economics better, but then later I found myself disagreeing with them on social/censorship/privacy issues. One side wants to impede freedom one way, and the other wants to impede it the other way, that's when I realized that both parties are hypocritical by nature. And I doubt it was knowingly designed this way, but all either side ever does is end up growing government and removing freedoms aside from the rare big wins towards actual liberty.
Didn't mean to go into rant mode, it's just annoying to me when democrats call republicans stupid or vice-versa. No, neither side is stupid. They have reasons for their beliefs, and while they do go through mental gymnastics to convince themselves their platform isn't hypocritical, they're both still coming from a place of trying to improve the world. But you bring that up and then people will use "whataboutism" all day to point to specific examples that seem particularly indefensible on one side or the other. This then makes productive discussion impossible. We all need to acknowledge that the "other" side aren't heartless bastards who don't care about the rich or who don't know how money works or whatever ignorant complaint you have, actually take time and learn.
Edit: Truth struck much too hard for many people lmao
Republicans are heartless evil bastards. Abortion bans. LGBT existence bans. Book bans. No gun controls. Underfunded education. Climate denial. Unchecked capitalism and inflation. Housing and stufent debt crises. Grifting trillions from taxpayers. Witch hunts against politicians family members who stayed out of politics. Sketchy relationships with the Russians, Chinese, and Saudis.
Fuck off, both sider. They are not the same.
They are the same. I'm sorry that you see yourself so much in them that you feel the need to lash out at me, but if that works for you whatever I suppose.
What are you talking about?
Republicans are already against it.
Bless your heart.