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yortsed snacilbuper

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Thu Jan 3, 2019, 11:45 AM Jan 2019

A Trump County Confronts the Administration Amid a Rash of Child Cancers

JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind. — The children fell ill, one by one, with cancers that few families in this suburban Indianapolis community had ever heard of. An avid swimmer struck down by glioblastoma, which grew a tumor in her brain. Four children with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Fifteen children with acute lymphocytic leukemia, including three cases diagnosed in the past year.

At first, families put the illnesses down to misfortune. But as cases mounted, parents started to ask: Could it be something in the air or water?

Their questions led them to an old industrial site in Franklin, the Johnson County seat, that the federal government had ordered cleaned up decades ago. Recent tests have identified a carcinogenic plume spreading underground, releasing vapors into homes.

Now, families in a county that voted overwhelmingly for President Trump are making demands of his administration that collide directly with one of his main agendas: the rolling back of health and environmental regulations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-trump-county-confronts-the-administration-amid-a-rash-of-child-cancers/ar-BBRK3EY?ocid=spartanntp

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A Trump County Confronts the Administration Amid a Rash of Child Cancers (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jan 2019 OP
Yeah, look who is suffering now under RepubliCON roll back of common sense regulations? Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #1

Farmer-Rick

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1. Yeah, look who is suffering now under RepubliCON roll back of common sense regulations?
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 11:51 AM
Jan 2019

It's the children of the people who voted for it.

There is wisdom in the crowd's opinions but only if you provide the crowd the facts and the truth of the situation. When you muddy that up, you get the stupidity of the crowd and the children suffer.

Now, go vote in more RepubliCONS so you can suffer some more.

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