Jackson Jambalaya

RINO

Just to be clear on one thing. Water/sewer utilities who save their money, spend efficiently and effectively, manage their infrastructure, etc. get nothing. Especially if the area is affluent and white. Most grants are based upon racial makeup and per capita income of the customer base.

But if you mismanage everything, spend foolishly, steal, waste money, and neglect your infrastructure, you will get a government handout to fix everything.

Any help from outside the city simply must come with stipulations that ensure future revenues from services will be sufficient to adequately maintain and update the system.

I've read multiple articles in the liberal media saying it is systemic racism in Mississippi that has caused this crisis. That is simply wrong. The Democrats have controlled Jackson for decades, and there has been a Black mayor since Harvey Johnson was elected in 1997, almost 25 years ago.

This is nothing more than a complete failure by local government. Giving sweetheart contract deals to favored constituents, ignoring ever growing delinquencies, and ignoring the deterioration of the system until the inevitable major failure occurred.

Giving baby Chock unrestricted funds to bail out his self-imposed problem will solve nothing. We'll be revisiting this same issue in less than a decade. The mayor and city council are totally incompetent. It is going to take someone from the outside to give them their marching orders since they can't do anything effective themselves. They might make decent managers but they are failures as leaders.

There is no "systemic racism" that caused this crisis. Water and sewer are neither white nor black. Infrastructure is neither white nor black. When Entergy sends me an electric bill, and then receives my check for payment, Entergy doesn't know my skin color.

You maintain and operate your system. The costs necessary to do so are absorbed within a water/sewer rate structure. Then the customers pay those rates. It's actually a very simple concept. You are a business, but you have a monopoly, so it's impossible to fail if done correctly.

I would imagine that any private business owner would love those terms.

Horse-shit political kiss up. With our (tax) dollars. Go to hell.

Is this money on top of the $46 Million coming to Jackson from the Biden relief package?

Rewarding bad behavior while pandering for future dem votes. Tsk, tsk.

Quick! Somebody remind CHS that Trump and the GOP tried pandering to AA’s too and you see where it got them!

Having a water system that is over a 100 years old is Bad Behavior?
When you folks ran off to Madison and Rankin County you left your problems too. It's only fair that you help pay for what you used and abused.

Whatever deficiencies the current Jackson administration has, and there are plenty, the water crisis has been brewing for many years. Nothing was done to replace the aging infrastructure in years when the city was more prosperous, and the current administration inherited the problem from prior administrations, all of whom failed to take steps to modernize the water system.

Biden is gonna make it rain on all the Democratic hellholes like N.O. and Jacktown. Gotta keep those Democrap leaders with their hands out waiting for their check.

All of the excuses and justifications don’t make any sense when there are plenty of places in America that are just as old as Jackson but don’t suffer as much dysfunction because they are managed by a completely different culture. Jackson’s culture is one of perpetual victimhood and it reflects in every aspect of the leadership and citizenry.

If for example, Chinese immigrants were the majority in control of Jackson, then we would have a very different city indeed.

@1:08 I don't think you understand. The folks that "ran off to Madison and Rankin County" did pay for the Jackson system. When they lived in Jackson, they paid a water/sewer bill monthly to the city of Jackson. When they ran off to Madison and Rankin County, they now pay a monthly water/sewer bill to the appropriate utility where they live.

Utilities are funded by the rate payers. I personally pay a bill to Entergy monthly. It helps fund the electrical service. If I move to Utah, I will pay a monthly electric bill to the provider in Utah to help fund my service. I won't pay Entergy anymore, because I won't need them for service.

@1:08 How dumb can you be?

Her hyphenated surname told me a long time ago what her true colors were.

The correct analogy with Entergy is if one were in a power outage which community would be more likely to have their power restored post haste?

Race is a coincidence, but the correlation is there.

1. Why should US Citizens front the bill for incompetence? Everybody knows this started when Mayor Johnson moved money from maintenance/infrastructure to fund other areas. It was a fatal mistake.

2. IF, big if, this money comes through, please make it where the City of Jackson and its "contractors" can't get its corrupt hands near a cent of the money.

11:54, if the area is affluent and white, then the area probably has brand new infrastructure, partially paid for by people they left behind. You don't think Madison actually paid for all of those new roads do you? Naw, it was federal money. Folks in Jackson helped pay for a lot of what you enjoy. But turn it around, and then all of a sudden, its wrong?

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The “Separate but Equal” crowd practice their dog whistling and thinly veiled racism while Kingfish approves!

@1:58 I don't think you understand how utilities work. You honestly don't.

Notably, WRDA 2020 contains a $130 million authorization for a wastewater plant in Desoto County.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/116th-congress/house-report/460

Any money Jackson is given for their water problems will end up in the pockets of those they elected. What happened to all the money they got for the faulty water meters? Has it already found a home in someone's pocket?

Come on in boys, the water is fine..... we have good quality H2O and plenty of room in the suburbs! (Thats not racist, is it?)

“ Jackson’s culture is one of perpetual victimhood and it reflects in every aspect of the leadership and citizenry.

If for example, Chinese immigrants were the majority in control of Jackson, then we would have a very different city indeed.”

I believe you won the March Most Racist kingfish comment contest. Your torch and robe will be in the mail shortly. Congrats.

Get real. Not a dime of that money is going to be any better spent than in Jackson, Mississippi. Even Cindy knows that. The money would be spent somewhere anyway, probably on some Democrat boondoggle and you haters won't even know about it. Okay, Jackson has piss-poor leadership...join the club. Jackson also has a very real water problem, not some made up pork project that won't amount to anything. Let's march, holler, stomp, and cuss for accountability but lets get that money!

You think I agree with comments that I approve?

Actually, the Chinese have a great deal of corruption too.

The difference is that if a water system implodes as this one does, people are executed.

Is Minnie Pearl also gonna' help the Jackson zoo animals ?

After all, those poor beast also had no water.
Plus the animals don't even require boiled water.

Just water.

@2:49,
No thanks on the robe. But a snappy 1930s Hugo Boss military uniform would be nice! Danke!

@Kingfish
They also executed the Executive in charge of the poisoned baby formula scandal.
They also just sentenced the hacker who hacked and leaked Xi Xinping’s daughter’s nude selfies, to 14 years in prison.
Brutal.

$ is a confidence game. Literally. Spend it.

@1:58 '...folks in Jackson paid for what people in Madison are enjoying..'..?? what what?? what are you smoking? Go ask your leaders in Jxn what amount/percentage of budget was spent on roads/water-sewer maintenance in 1990 and what amount/percentage is being spent today or in the last 20 years. Then you'll have your answer.

Hey 1:08 PM I'm not from Jackson, MS and How do you figure the people who live in the other county has to pay for Jackson Problems. The only time I come to Jackson is when I have to go to the Hospital. Oh, the hospital's have well water not not surface water unlike Jackson. Why must I pay for Jackson stupidity?

What ever happened to the JPS bond money? You know, the money that was going to fix 'er up? KF, any chance of a follow-up? Thanks!

Call Jackson Water and see if you can get anyone on the line. When we sold the old house in North Jackson in January my wife stayed on the hold all day during work just to try and get the water cut off. In fact she called other city departments and they tried to get in contact with the water department and they couldn't.

She stayed on hold either yesterday or late last week all day.

2:49 PM and 2:18 PM
Criticism, no matter how benign, will always be regarded as racist by a group of people who have been given every opportunity and yet cannot make anything of it.

Jackson's infrastructure issues are over 50 years old. The can has been kicked down the road for a long time. Whites that started leaving Jackson in the 80's and early 90's already knew this. It was not only about black people moving in.

What candidate are we backing to get Chokwe out of office? That is what we need to start talking about. I am tired of this blowhard do-nothing pretending to run a city.

3:38 PM
I'll save some steps. Page 14:

https://www.jacksonms.gov/documents/fy-2020-2021-preliminary-budget-overview/

No worries. When the Farris Street entertainment district kicks off, they’ll be tons of tax money rolling in.

4:07, do your own research and report to the rest of us and Shad.

1:45 - You should find the commenter from last week who believes the 19th Amendment is responsible for the inevitable downfall of our country. With all these women going around doing ridiculous things like voting, keeping our names, and generally thinking for ourselves, I'm sure y'all will have plenty to discuss.

This measure would actually accomplish something good (gasp). So of course this bunch is against it.

But divert federal tax dollars to a shopping mall in ridgeland (Renaissance, which was built with Katrina disaster relief money) or a ball park in Pearl, you guys seem to have no problem.

Pathetic!

Wow, a US Senator actually trying to fix a real problem in her state. Good for her!

Unless Shad is in charge of the money, it will never make it through all the crooked fingers

This is Covid money that Hyde voted against, now trying to take credit for it

Can you say RINO? Go on; I know you can. R-I-N-O R-I-N-O R-I-N-O that wasn't hard, was it?

"Jackson's infrastructure issues are over 50 years old. The can has been kicked down the road for a long time. Whites that started leaving Jackson in the 80's and early 90's already knew this. It was not only about black people moving in."

What a thoroughly ignorant statement. Not one soul who ever moved out of Jackson had a thought in hell about a water system or the age of the infrastructure. That's almost as asinine as suggesting business left town because they knew potholes would take over within fifteen years.

About time for the city to announce a new out of state manager to fix the infrastructure. This manger will ask for money and be frustrated that their is none. Last ditch appeal to the Federal government.
I doubt if anyone knows the configuration of the water and sewage system. Has any idea of how to engineer the redoing.
As others posted, a few years after a Federal money dump, DOJ arrests of elected crooks being.
Zero budgeting for school improvement told me all I needed to make this assumption.

Give Jackson one billion dollars and 2 years later the money will be gone and still the water will be bad.

If the money is given to Jackson, there must be some serious oversight. As another poster said, the projects should be completely run by the state or feds. The leadership is too inept otherwise to make the project really count.

Wow, CHS introduced a bill! Bet the total for her career is not more than five.