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Majority Of Delinquent Detroit Water Customers In Culture Of: ‘You’re Not Making Me Pay’
WWJ-AM Newsradio 950 ^ | June 26, 2014 | Marie Osborne

Posted on 06/30/2014 7:36:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: McGavin999
I believe I read that the city will provide 2 buckets full of water for anyone who comes to get it. They are only without water if they don’t go to collect it. That would be enough to drink and to flush

Even so, I'd bet that most of them would demand that it be delivered.

21 posted on 06/30/2014 8:00:59 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Love it. Movie was on late night, last week.

Sadly, a Coke costs $1.25 where I work, now. Times change.

And, I bring my own Coke.

22 posted on 06/30/2014 8:02:44 AM PDT by wbill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t worry. The lefties will give them free water, along with free phones, food, housing and money.


23 posted on 06/30/2014 8:03:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: BunnySlippers
All of these people are able to pay their cable TV bill.

...and their "ghetto blaster" subwoofers
....and their 22" chrome wheels
.....and their Obamaphone......
.....and their xbox/ps3....
.....and their 50"+ LCD television....
....and their $200 stupid-looking Nike shoes
....and their fancy nails...
....colorful hairdos
.....tattoos
.....junk food
......crap music
.....illegal firearms
.......and on and on and on and on and on.

I saw on a Hoarders show once, one of the clean up psychologist said, "We are all five critical decisions away from crapping in a bucket in the backyard". If you make five (5) bad decisions in your life, you'll be crapping in your backyard and bathing in streams. Fine. Let the Detroitiers crap in their own bucket and wash in the rain ditches.

24 posted on 06/30/2014 8:10:11 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Cementjungle

It seems to vary quite a lot from location to location.


Water service tends to be cheaper in places with an abundant source of potable water! Ain’t that amazing?

The liberal solution would be to disolve local water service and put it under federal control so everyone pays the same amount to make it “fair.”


25 posted on 06/30/2014 8:10:45 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Even so, I'd bet that most of them would demand that it be delivered.

"Carry a bucket?!


26 posted on 06/30/2014 8:12:40 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Cementjungle

Our water bill runs between $50-60 a month. It has increased with the price of electricity. It was consistently $42 for years.......and we have a 40,000 gallon pool.


27 posted on 06/30/2014 8:16:12 AM PDT by sheana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr Bullock needs to understand that if his group shouldn’t have to pay, then nobody should have to pay for water.

The Water Company who tries to deliver the clean, treated water will close down. They have expenses, including labor.

However, Detroit could go back to the days of getting water out of rivers and lakes. Free water, but that free water will exact a price.


28 posted on 06/30/2014 8:16:19 AM PDT by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where’s the photo of that Detroit denizen holding up her water bill with the HUGE flat screen in the background? Plenty of other goodies showing there too.

Hey, I’d love one of those too but it would be unconscionable for me to make such a purchase at the expense of the basic necessities.

Confidential to the UN: let’s compare Detroit’s poor with the poor in any country in Africa and see if they’d qualify as upper middle class in those countries.


29 posted on 06/30/2014 8:18:24 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
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To: raybbr

Caddyshack!!


30 posted on 06/30/2014 8:25:48 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

HAHA Caddyshack...


31 posted on 06/30/2014 9:30:41 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

HAHA Caddyshack...


32 posted on 06/30/2014 9:31:09 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: DCBryan1

I’ve been saying, open a public spigot at opposite ends of the street. Each home gets 2 buckets.

Come and get it!


33 posted on 06/30/2014 9:40:16 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Might chip that lavender manicure.


34 posted on 06/30/2014 9:41:21 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and says the department ignores large corporations which are behind.

Sadly he has a point. Pittsburgh Brewing owned nearly $3 million before anybody squawked.


35 posted on 06/30/2014 10:34:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That isn’t the point. If I owe $10,000 in back child support and some tycoon owes a million dollars, we both are behind. One shouldn’t justify their own delinquency by pointing at another person’s. That’s what 4 year olds do. I don’t get free water, do you?


36 posted on 06/30/2014 10:38:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder if this is a popular song among the freeloaders that want the “evil” corporations to leave Detroit:

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
And he said, Boys, I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Besides the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers’ trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall
The winds don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railway bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey too
You can paddle all around it
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin.
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in.
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws nor picks,
I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where THEY HUNG THE JERK
THAT INVENTED WORK,
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
....
I'll see you all this coming fall (FOR THE ELECTIONS)
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

37 posted on 06/30/2014 10:46:18 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: PATRIOT1876

The Big Rock Candy Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ


38 posted on 06/30/2014 10:50:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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