Hobbit_Feet45 t1_j3fk498 wrote on January 8, 2023 at 5:04 AM

Reply to comment by domestication_never in ‘This is no way to live’: Mississippians struggle with another water crisis by BitterFuture

No one wants to live there if there’s no water. You gotta fix the problems to bring people and businesses back. They are at an inflection point. They can do nothing and watch the city death-spiral or they can take out loans, pass a bond with extra tax revenue or get the damn state or feds to bail them out.

kiklion t1_j3grnj8 wrote on January 8, 2023 at 1:33 PM

I thought people were leaving/population was dropping before the water failed. Sure, no one wants to move to where there is no water but doing a one time fix on the water won’t fix the underlying issues either.

If the city is positioned in an economically important area, then whatever local laws and regulations are driving people away or discouraging people from staying need to be re-evaluated.

If the area isn’t particularly economically important then why put good money after bad?

Either way, the city should be able to maintain it itself.

GlassWasteland t1_j3j028h wrote on January 8, 2023 at 10:22 PM

Yes, well the feds gave the state millions for projects like this, but the guys in the state decided to spend it on a volleyball arena for some college, because a rich football players daughter went there.

If the feds really wanted to help Mississippi they would go down there and start an anti-corruption campaign doing deep dives into every politician.