‘We are hiding out with no water’: Detroit privatizers deny poor people their right to water

The San Francisco Bay View - A National Black Newspaper ^ | June 28, 2014 | Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network

[GeronL]

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[FlJoePa]

Water sort of is a basic human right, and he’s entitled to it just like you and me.

If the protester would walk due east, he’d find a big river. I’m sure no one would care how many buckets of water he takes out of it.

[tbw2]

Someone had a good point recently, they are going after many of the small people when they’d get more mileage after the biggest offenders.

According to the Detroit Metro Times:
As the segment reported, Joe Louis Arena owes roughly $80,000, and Ford Field about $55,000. Palmer Park Golf Club and the VA Hospital both owe an estimated $200,000.

[cableguymn]

Dude on the right has a “hands off my pension” shirt on.

how bout you spend some of that pension on your water bill eh????

[Ciexyz]

I assume we’ll see the startup of a welfare program to help the disadvantaged with their water bills, same as they do with heating bills. In my area it’s called LIHEAP, a heating energy aid program.

[Still Thinking]

Privatization is the U.S. corporate answer to everything, and to Detroit, like Chicago and New Orleans and Oakland and hundreds of other U.S. cities, this means the private corporate theft of all of our public resources, including schools, parks, streets and housing.

So if you privatize say, park management, the private management company all of a sudden owns the park itself?? Liberals need to at least come up with more coherent lies, or they're not going to save any fat lazy Dem union jobs.

[PistolPaknMama]

"How am I supposed to pay these bills?"

Sell that ginormous TV behind you?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Good. Ifs youse don’t pays your bill, they cuts youse a$$ off.

[RS_Rider]

“What isn’t a human right to a liberal?

Life, Liberty and Property.

[cableguymn]

she could start by selling that big ass tv..

[huldah1776]

The man on the right has an interesting t-shirt. I wonder what pension he lost and where he worked.

[Kozak]

Keeping what you earn.

[Aliska]

Water should be a right like the air we breathe. Problem is it costs to create the infrastructure to pipe clean water into every household, pay for the employees who are in charge of the water treatment, broken sewer lines, etc.

Somebody has to pay for all that. If they are jacking up the price, then that's just plain wrong. So the only solution is to have pumps every couple blocks and people carry their water in buckets to and from.

Wouldn't that be awful, especially in winter? I saw a small town in Russia where most have water to the house but some still had to carry from the pump.

There should be something they could do. Water is one thing I never heard they had assistance for. Maybe below a certain income level they should have it paid for by grants or something.

The alternatives are too draconian. Have your kids snatched and living in unsanitary conditions, a public health hazard.

[Celtic Conservative]

“what is Morgan Freeman doing there?”

He’s pretending he’s God again. Gonna “part the sea” of red tape and get everybodys water turned back on.

/sarc

CC

[Bogey78O]

Let’s see. A group of people want a product but they don’t want to pay for it. They want others to labor for it without compensation.

Where have I heard of this before?

[luvbach1]

“What isn’t a human right to a liberal?

Life, Liberty and Property.

I agree, and ironic that the ultimate human rights are not recognized by liberals/progrssives.

[Darksheare]

Yes, one wonders about their budgetary restraint.

[Cboldt]

I thought this was satire. It’s not? Hahahaha. Funnier still!!!

[luvbach1]

Keeping what you earn.

Not a human right to libs, right you are.

[Bogey78O]

Good call. That’s at least 3 o4 months of water.