"And the Lord god commanded the man saying, 'You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,'" - Genesis Chapter 2, verse 16 (RSV)
"Then the Lord God said, 'Behold. the man has become like one of us knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever_'" - Genesis Chapter 3, verse 22 (RSV)
We have discussed this before. I have long been of the opinion that the Adam and Eve story is totally misinterpreted in the Judeo-Christian tradition. My guess is that this story and others in the Book of Genesis likely originated in Mesopotamia. The God of the Old Testament more closely resembles the Mesopotamian gods than he does the God we have today. Go read the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and see if you don't agree with me. Wiki has a pretty good synopsis of it if you don't want to read the whole book.
Of course there is no guarantee that the money going into government programs would be redirected to a good cause if there were no government programs. Nevertheless, If they are going to collect money for the poor, they should give it directly to the poor instead of spreading it around the bureaucracy and expecting it to trickle down to the people it is supposed to help. My paper mill bailout was hypothetical, based on the bailouts of the banks and auto companies which were real.
The Libertarian platform is certainly not perfect but, faced with a choice of Trump or Hillary, I would vote for a yellow dog if he ran as a Libertarian.
Like I said, the emergency managers appointed by our RINO governor have supreme power and can over rule the mayor and the city council, which I'm pretty sure this guy did when he ordered the change in Flint's water source. I doubt that he knew the water was poison, but he could have ordered some tests before he made the decision. Better yet, if there had been no emergency manager, the duly elected officials could have made the decision themselves, and subsequently had to answer to the voters if they got it wrong.
The way I heard it on the TV news, the chemicals they put in were to seal the pipes so as to stop the lead from leaching into the water. They didn't need those chemicals before because the water in the Detroit River is not nearly as corrosive as the water in the Flint River. I understand that the chemicals themselves have made some people sick, so they might have discontinued their use by now.
I am not up to date on the latest news from Flint, so you may have heard something that I haven't. I didn't watch any TV or go on line yesterday because we went to visit my daughter in Charlevoix, which is where the picture you saw on Wiki was taken.
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