Bernie Sanders dumps lily white Vermont's nuclear waste on poor Latino community in TX.

[Big Tex]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/what-about-sierra-blanca-bernie_b_9233818.html

The people of Vermont didn't have much of a problem with the deal. But Texans and their Mexican neighbors over the Rio Grande were outraged.

A delegation from Texas reached out to Sanders and tried to reason with him, citing the environmental and human degradation the waste site would create. They thought they would get an empathetic response from the nominal socialist.

They were wrong.

Sanders's reply was curt, abrupt, and final:





"My position is unchanged and you're not going to like it." When asked if he would at least visit the proposed site in Sierra Blanca, he said: "Absolutely not. I'm gonna to be running for re-election in the state of Vermont."


The real costs of generating nuclear energy for Vermont, Sanders made clear, would be borne by a small, poor, majority-Hispanic community in Texas. The politically powerless people of Sierra Blanca- where the median income is only $10,500- were chosen to bear the toxic burden of Vermont's electricity.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

The we must vote for Hillary coon platoon will be here in

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[D Kline]

IT SOUNDS QUITE REPUBLICAN ROUND HERE. KATS WOULDN'T PULL THIS BULLSHIT WITH O .

 

[ballscout1]

You sure try so hard and are becoming pathetic.....

The place has always been a dumping site and the dumps employ the people who live there. So don't act this was like

SIERRA BLANCA, Tex.— There is not much here anymore, if there was ever much of anything to begin with. The town's main street is coated in dust, and the old movie house is long shuttered. The one sign of activity -- the traffic moving along elevated Interstate 10 -- is a reminder that the modern world rarely stops here.

The other reminder can be found on the outskirts of this tiny town, where freight cars are being unloaded for the last time. The last sludge train from New York City arrived this month, leaving its last shipment of what officials describe as ''bio-solids'' but what others call treated sewage.

The dump in Sierra Blanca, one of the biggest sludge dumps in the world, is going out of business.

''We've survived before without it, and I'm sure we still will,'' said James A. Peace, the Hudspeth County judge and the area's highest elected official.

The news came unexpectedly in June and was greeted with a mixed response in this town of 600 people in the vast, empty country about 90 miles southeast of El Paso. For local critics and environmentalists who have fought the sludge operation and recent efforts to build a nuclear waste dump here, it is a long-awaited victory. For others, it is an economic blow, resulting in the loss of 40 jobs and the planned closing of the town's biggest private employer.

''A lot of people are going to be hunting jobs,'' said Kay Scarbrough, the county tax assessor, ''and there are not any jobs here.''

It is hard to imagine places more different than New York and Sierra Blanca, and the contrast has always underscored the mercenary marriage between the nation's largest city and the small town where it has dumped its sewage since 1992. That year, after Congress had prohibited the city from dumping its sludge in the Atlantic Ocean, New York signed contracts with several companies to treat and transport its sewage. One of them was a Long Island joint venture, which began shipping up to 250 tons every day on the 2,065-mile journey to West Texas. The Texas Observer, the political journal, recently called it ''the poo-poo choo-choo.''

The Long Island company, Merco, had first sought a site in Oklahoma, but after meeting resistance there learned about a failed resort called the Mile High Ranch in Sierra Blanca. The company purchased the 81,000-acre area so that the treated sludge could be spread on ''application areas'' as if it were fertilizer. The company rotates the areas of land chosen to absorb the sludge.

Environmentalists and critics immediately accused Texas officials of ramming the project through approval. They have long argued that the sludge has exposed the area to health risks and other problems. Texas Tech University has studied the project and has found no evidence of contamination.

''If there was ever a case of environmental injustice, Sierra Blanca was it,'' said Bill Addington, an outspoken critic who also runs a general store in town. Two years ago, Mr. Addington helped fight plans to build a nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca, and he considered the closing of the Merco operation a bittersweet victory. ''This material has polluted a very large area that used to be pristine,'' Mr. Addington said.

But Tom Gillane, Merco's local operations manager, said all the sludge shipments had been carefully tested to prevent contamination and had met environmental standards under New York law. He dismissed the local stories of three-legged deer as the rural equivalents of urban legends and even said the project had helped the environment.

''We're enhancing the natural grass growth,'' Mr. Gillane said. He added that two nearby ranches leased parts of the land so that cattle could graze on the grass. ''The majority of the people are very proud that this operation is here.''

There is an odor, although exactly how bad is a matter of interpretation. ''If we get a little rain and then a north breeze, then you can smell it here in town,'' Ms. Scarbrough said. ''It smells like a hog farm.''

Wayne West, who once shipped livestock for a living and now runs a local garage, was more charitable.''You're asking somebody who's been in the livestock transportation business all his life,'' Mr. West said, ''so to me it smells like money.''

No one in Sierra Blanca had any warning that after so many years and so much controversy, the sludge train would soon make its last stop.

Geoffrey Ryan, spokesman for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, said the decision was based on economics and would save the city about $3 million a year. He said the city had exercised an option to cancel the Merco contract because New York could not generate enough sludge for all five of the companies that were contracted to handle its sludge. Merco, he said, was tied for the most expensive rate.

''It is simply a case where maintaining the five contracts was costing us $2 million to $3 million a year,'' Mr. Ryan said.

Merco will shut down in Sierra Blanca on Tuesday. Mr. Addington worried that the company could win another contract to store another city's sludge, but Mr. Gillane, the Merco manager, was skeptical.

Mr. Peace, the county judge, said the local school may lose 14 of its 120 students. He went to New York once and found it too big for his liking. But it speaks to the economic desperation of small, rural towns like Sierra Blanca that he would not mind if the sludge train kept coming.

Photo: Contents of sludge containers from New York City are emptied onto the grounds of the 81,000-acre Merco Ranch in Sierra Blanca in West Texas. (Bruce Berman for The New York Times) Map of Texas highlighting Sierra Blanca: Some of New York's sewage ended up in Sierra Blanca, Tex.

 

[gene cisco]

Bernie and Clinton supporters seem on the brink of war.

 

[ballscout1]

Bernie and Clinton supporters seem on the brink of war.

Well for some status quo is okay and they will protect tooth and nail.

And to others who want to see change in the structure of this country it's only a matter of trying to figure why someone who has supported damage to black folks is held in such high regard

 

[Big Tex]

You sure try so hard and are becoming pathetic.....

The place has always been a dumping site and the dumps employ the people who live there. So don't act this was like

So you're ok with it?

So you'll stop alleging that Bernie is anything more than just another politician then?

So when This community begs him not to do this, and basically says, "Deal with it. I'm running for re-election" That's cool.

Good. We can finally end this bullshit pretending that Bernie cares about the people and only cares about the people. I'm glad we agree.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Bernie and Clinton supporters seem on the brink of war.

It's the new Bgol civil war

First one was the Zod ass lovers vs the Pussyple


Now it's the coon platoon we love white women and Hillary is right vs the old bastard Jew does nothing and doesn't have experience and can't win

Which side are u on gene?

Ain't no Switzerland in this unless u plan on not voting.

 

[Big Tex]

Well for some status quo is okay and they will protect tooth and nail.

And to others who want to see change in the structure of this country it's only a matter of trying to figure why someone who has supported damage to black folks is held in such high regard

Politifact rates this as largely true by the way...

 

[gene cisco]

It's the new Bgol civil war

First one was the Zod ass lovers vs the Pussyple


Now it's the coon platoon we love white women and Hillary is right vs the old bastard Jew does nothing and doesn't have experience and can't win

Which side are u on gene?

Ain't no Switzerland in this unless u plan on not voting.

This war extends well past BGOL. I'm team Sanders, but will vote for that piece of shit Clinton in the general if that's what it comes down to.

 

[Famous1]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/what-about-sierra-blanca-bernie_b_9233818.html

Nigha shut up. ... don't you think you've convinced enough people not to vote in this election already?

 

[Big Tex]

Nigha shut up. ... don't you think you've convinced enough people not to vote in this election already?

So wait....

10000 Hillary threads = "The truth must get out"
A few Bernie threads = "Nigha shut up"

I want everyone to vote for whoever the Dems nominate.

I just get tired of the "Hillary is the embodiment of everything wrong with the world while Bernie is the most virtuous man that has ever lived" theme going around. If we can agree that they're both politicians, lets just support whoever wins.

And stop with the Bernie or I'm staying home shit.

 

[IT IS WHAT IT IS]

Just wondering Tex... When will we see your next Hillary bashing thread Bruh?

 

[ballscout1]

Dude there have been hazardous waste sites in this country since there have been hazardous waste.....It isn't just Vermont using it but that is how you try to portray it.

It was a dump before it was used for low level nuclear waste and that is what employed the people there. You also tried to make it seem like the town was against it when as usual with sites like that there are some in the town and the ecologist.

would I want it in my backyard ? No but then I never moved to where a dump is....I also don't move near electric substations...

The people who live in places like that, that is there interest and they should vote their interest.

My interest are in line with what Sanders is running on.

You interests are what Hillary is running on this week

So you're ok with it?

So you'll stop alleging that Bernie is anything more than just another politician then?

So when This community begs him not to do this, and basically says, "Deal with it. I'm running for re-election" That's cool.

Good. We can finally end this bullshit pretending that Bernie cares about the people and only cares about the people. I'm glad we agree.

 

[ballscout1]

This war extends well past BGOL. I'm team Sanders, but will vote for that piece of shit Clinton in the general if that's what it comes down to.

That is all I have said from day one... That the nomination process shouldn't be rigged and whoever wins should then be supported all out..

The nomination process is to pick who has a history and a platform in line with your interests. The general election would be the same thing.

Bernie does that for me against Hillary....Hillary would do that against any possible republican running...

 

[ballscout1]

So wait....

10000 Hillary threads = "The truth must get out"
A few Bernie threads = "Nigha shut up"

I want everyone to vote for whoever the Dems nominate.

I just get tired of the "Hillary is the embodiment of everything wrong with the world while Bernie is the most virtuous man that has ever lived" theme going around. If we can agree that they're both politicians, lets just support whoever wins.

And stop with the Bernie or I'm staying home shit.

Hillary has a history of supporting policies that have been harmful to black people. Now that she is running she changes her song so it's a matter of is she trust worthy or is she just saying what people want to hear and will uphold the status quo.

I don't want the Israel will have a better friend in me than you had with Obama who was trying to real in Israels control of US policy.

Sanders has a history or fighting oppression and is running as a progressive.

I have never told you to shut up..

And I never said anything close to if Bernie doesn't win I'm staying home...

 

[Big Tex]

Dude there have been hazardous waste sites in this country since there have been hazardous waste.....It isn't just Vermont using it but that is how you try to portray it.

It was a dump before it was used for low level nuclear waste and that is what employed the people there. You also tried to make it seem like the town was against it when as usual with sites like that there are some in the town and the ecologist.

would I want it in my backyard ? No but then I never moved to where a dump is....I also don't move near electric substations...

The people who live in places like that, that is there interest and they should vote their interest.

My interest are in line with what Sanders is running on.

You interests are what Hillary is running on this week

Take what you just wrote, take out the words "hazardous waste" and replace them with "wall street", then read it back.

You can't say wall street is evil for only caring about it's interests, but then say you're ok with dumping radioactive waste near children because you only care about your interests.

In fact, why should people with health insurance care about those that don't? It's not in their interests.

Just today, you made a post in another thread saying that the well being of others were in your interests.

But now in order to Berniesplain this away, you knly care about yourself.

This is what is so amazing to me, how normally rational people will do anything, absolutely anything, to protect Bernie. Anything to protect this perfect image of him.

 

[ballscout1]

Take what you just wrote, take out the words "hazardous waste" and replace them with "wall street", then read it back.

You can't say wall street is evil for only caring about it's interests, but then say you're ok with dumping radioactive waste near children because you only care about your interests.

In fact, why should people with health insurance care about those that don't? It's not in their interests.

Just today, you made a post in another thread saying that the well being of others were in your interests.

But now in order to Berniesplain this away, you knly care about yourself.

This is what is so amazing to me, how normally rational people will do anything, absolutely anything, to protect Bernie. Anything to protect this perfect image of him.

you can't possible be that obtuse in real life.

what you typed is actually pretty stupid and devoid of facts but okay.....

What amazes me is how normally rationale people will do anything to justify voting for Hillary. Anything to protect her turn to be the nominee.

 

[Famous1]

So wait....

10000 Hillary threads = "The truth must get out"
A few Bernie threads = "Nigha shut up"

I want everyone to vote for whoever the Dems nominate.

I just get tired of the "Hillary is the embodiment of everything wrong with the world while Bernie is the most virtuous man that has ever lived" theme going around. If we can agree that they're both politicians, lets just support whoever wins.

And stop with the Bernie or I'm staying home shit.

Good luck in persuading people to vote for a woman they don't like... Clinton supporters seem to be doing a good job at it so far.....not.

 

[Coldchi]

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Big Tex will u vote for Bernie if he is nominated?

 

[shaddyvillethug]

The Hillary Coon Platoon must be stopped

 

[Big Tex]

Big Tex will u vote for Bernie if he is nominated?

Without a doubt I will.

 

[Big Tex]

you can't possible be that obtuse in real life.

what you typed is actually pretty stupid and devoid of facts but okay.....

What amazes me is how normally rationale people will do anything to justify voting for Hillary. Anything to protect her turn to be the nominee.

Ok. Let let's make it simple for you.

Do you think that Wall Street is bad for only being concerned about their interests?

 

[EPDC]

Isn't Texas full of a bunch of Redneck Secessionists? Fuck them.

Fuck the Cowboys too.

 

[ballscout1]

I think wall street is bad for committing criminal and unethical activities.

That isn't everyone that works on Wall Street but it is enough...

Wall Streets job is to make money for their investors and as we have seen they haven't done that but those that run those companies aren't taken the losses..

I also don't believe that corporations are people..

 

[shaddyvillethug]

When Hillary attached obama that was a attack on all black men.

I can't vote for that and I bet Obama wouldn't either

He bet not

Damn u joe biden

 

[shaddyvillethug]

I remember in 2008 when Bgol niggas was saying that if Obama put Hillary on his ticket they wouldn't vote for them.

What happened to all them niggas?

 

[gene cisco]

I remember in 2008 when Bgol niggas was saying that if Obama put Hillary on his ticket they wouldn't vote for them.

What happened to all them niggas?

Cats hated the Clintons around here. That's the problem I see with her if Trump gets the nomination. He will never shut up about that fuck shit the Clintons have pulled. SOME people will end up saying fuck both of them and staying home. Sanders doesn't have that baggage.

 

[Big Tex]

I think wall street is bad for committing criminal and unethical activities.

That isn't everyone that works on Wall Street but it is enough...

Wall Streets job is to make money for their investors and as we have seen they haven't done that but those that run those companies aren't taken the losses..

I also don't believe that corporations are people..

Do you think it is unethical to ship radioactive waste from affluent communities to poor communities?

 

[IT IS WHAT IT IS]

Without a doubt I will.

But you're going hard to do you part to make sure that doesn't happen.... I see you Dude

So Tex, when can we expect your next(first) Hillary bashing thread bruh?

 

[Built4Life]

 

[Diomedes3000]

At least it wasn't a black community. Are they even citizens ?

 

[ballscout1]

Do you think it is unethical to ship radioactive waste from affluent communities to poor communities?

stop adding adjectives to try and make your position make sense.

what affluent neighborhood you ever saw a reactor located ?

and the area was already a dump so stop it already.

and the dump that was shutdown caused hardship because it was the main employer in that area.

so it went from on dump to another.......and it returned jobs.

if you don't already know that land could not have been used for housing or most other uses because it was a bio hazard dump.


so just stop with your drama....

 

[Big Tex]

But you're going hard to do you part to make sure that doesn't happen.... I see you Dude

So Tex, when can we expect your next(first) Hillary bashing thread bruh?

There are already plenty of those.

Here's how this goes down.

I just want the person that has a chance to beat the Republicans.

I say both are poluticians. I don't look at either as saviors. Just give me some good justices and keep republicans from fucking shit up.

Bernie cats say "Hillary is the most evil bitch there ever was, but Bernie!!!!! Bernie is true!!!! Bernie is pure!!!! He's not like the rest of the politicians!!!! Bernie really on cares about us!!!

I say

Bernie cats post 1000 threads about how Hillary is a bitch and satan.

I post a few that says Bernie is a politician just like the rest and Bernie cats are not fucking stand for anyone suggesting their Bernie isn't perfect.

I only point out that Bernie is:

Jewish
Socialist
Has announced he will be raising everyone's taxes
Has announced he will take away everyone's healthcare
Has admitted that under his plan you will have waiting lines for some procedures.

So, i don't believe someone that has video of him saying all of the above has a chance in hell of winning a general election in this country.

Bernie cats believe that to hear Bernie is to love him and that once the country hears Bernie, they will love him like they do.

That's where it is brah.

No where on this board will you find me saying Hillary is a perfect candidate. It's the Bernie cats that believe he is more than a politician.