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Originally Posted by graciegirl
316 families within a half mile. Always, always good to save money, somehow, some way, you never know when some disaster will strike and you might need shelter. The government is NOT your mother.
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Actually government in some situations is your mother. When you lived in Ohio and needed your streets plowed, the government did it. When you needed fire or police, the government provided that. When your daughter needed help with her education, the government was there to back up whatever private resources you provided. The government subsidized the schools and the education of the teachers. The government made sure your water was potable and the air non-poisonous. The meat wasn't filled with maggots and the restaurants you visited kept roaches out of your salad.
You love that our local government, the CDD, get into the nitty gritty of forcing people to trim their bushes and paint their houses the correct color. I bet you expect the CDD wouldn't let a toxic waste lake exist a 1/2 mile from your home and would demand that if it did exist it be kept from leaking or flooding your home. Yes the government is your mother, sometimes. And that's a good thing. Trim those bushes and pull those weeds is a much more involved and intrusive government than protect me from toxic waste and flooding from a man made lake.
And when the government said it was ok to dig a mine and extract materials which left toxic waste, it took on some responsibility to be sure that the toxic waste was not dumped into your yard. When the business that did the mining reneged on its requirement to manage the toxic waste it then becomes the obligation of the government to force the business to comply or fix the problem any other way it sees fit.
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And whose fanny was seated in the Governor's seat when this all began?
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You asked who the governors were that have let this situation incubate since the mine closed in 2001: that would be Jeb Bush (R) 2001-2007, Charlie Crist (R) 2007-2011, Rick Scott (R) 2011 -2019, Ron DeSantis (R) 2019 -present
If you want to know who were the Manatee County Supervisors during this time, Google can tell you.
2020 2016 2012 You can find the rest going back if you care to know.