So says Brian Williams anyway. Here see for yourself....
Would like to know why the water is so expensive in Detroit compared to other cities.
Bloated bureaucracy?
I had my water cut off when I was in college. No one seemed to care.
I survived. They will too. Pay your bill or live without it.
As long as there are no white farmers.
When did municipal water become free? Am I missing something?
She didn't want to sell to a white person??
What a freaking joke
All of this could have been avoided if only the residents of Detroit had had the forethought to elect progressive Democrats to office, instead of the greedy, Republicans that they did elect all these years. Then it would have been unicorns and rainbows.
Wait ... who are you saying was elected?
So says Brian Williams anyway. Here see for yourself....
Same guy wrote this:
But leftists love Third World ideas - why aren’t the liberal elites flocking in?
They seem to be able to pay for anything else they want, just not things they need, like water & electricity. They think that should be given to them.
“I feel like the house is falling apart,” said Ms. Byrd, despairing this spring as she tried to scrounge up $4,500 in overdue taxes to keep the city from taking her family’s home and having it become another abandoned property.
Like so many others, the Byrds are barely hanging on. Ms. Byrd works two jobs in elder care, sometimes in 12-hour shifts, and her husband, lives on a police pension that remains subject to the city’s bankruptcy negotiations.
Having hit some bad breaks and mismanaged their household budget over the years, the Byrds saw their debts become insurmountable. At one point last year, they fell about $17,000 behind on property taxes and about $60,000 behind in utility, medical and car bills. That forced Ms. Byrd into bankruptcy.*
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But her kids are still having babies they obviously can’t afford
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Inell Byrd, just home from her job as a health aide, with her eight-month-old granddaughter Cailey, in Detroit’s North End neighborhood, June 28, 2014.
Derlena Hart and her nine-year-old son Christopher Johnson in the kitchen in Detroit's North End neighborhood, June 28, 2014.
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Still has a cellphone in her pocket with her roof falling in.
Inell Byrd in her sun room, with its damaged ceiling, in Detroit, June 28, 2014.
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Detroit doesn't have any men who can get off their *ss and fix a roof?!
I worked all week too, over 40 hrs but still found time this weekend to spend 14 hrs working in my yard. And I loved every minute of it including my job. I guess the difference is I like to work.
Don’t most real Africans walk miles each day to get water?
Its the white mans fault if you read the article....
Eligon also writes about Banika Jones, a 34-year-old woman living in the North End. After overcoming suspicions of the white social activists coming into her neighborhood,
Apparently these einsteins think money has a color other than green. Getting what they voted for since Coleman Young days...
“Human rights”????
What about the rights of the people who provide the water? The pipe layers and maintainers, the workers at the purification plant, the reservoir workers, clerical workers, etc etc. They all have a right to be paid. If you don’t pay your bill then they can’t be paid.
Pay your bill, get your water, stfu.
If a person in Detroit turns on the faucet and water comes out and they don’t pay a water bill, that means someone else is paying their water bill.
The translation of this paragraph is simple - only suckers pay the water bill, because water is a right that nobody can take away from you.
The fact that the sentiment is bass-ackwards doesn't even register to the writer, apparently. There is a right to have water, but no right to have clean, fresh, quality monitored water piped into your house for free.
