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Thousands go without water as Detroit cuts service for nonpayment
LA Times ^ | 28 June 14 | Alana Semuels

Posted on 06/29/2014 4:54:35 AM PDT by SkyPilot

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To: Gaffer

Yeah but if you read the article, and taking what is said as true, there is something seriously wrong with this woman’s bill. She said she was getting bills for $200 a month for water, that she’s lived there 5 years and she owes almost $6,000. My water bill is about $25 a month. Something is wrong there.

And I love the picture of the smirking white guy. It’s him and other white liberals like him who empowered the black racists to ruin Detroit and the lives of its residents.

GOOD JOB ALL!


42 posted on 06/29/2014 5:22:18 AM PDT by jocon307 (These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
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To: Gaffer

On her right hand, or left?


44 posted on 06/29/2014 5:23:33 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Wagglebee, welcome home we missed you! ~ Þ)
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To: SkyPilot

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.


45 posted on 06/29/2014 5:23:51 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: grania

“...bring manufacturing back.”

I wish someone would study how environmental wacko-ism helped to destroy manufacturing in this country.

I don’t know this to be true (hence the need for study) but I expect that it is.


47 posted on 06/29/2014 5:25:32 AM PDT by jocon307 (These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
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To: jocon307

Maybe if she’d spent a little more time in school learning how to write and converse (not conversate) she’d have been equipped enough to deal with that problem. The problem is that she very very likely has EVERY one of her other basic needs covered by entitlements and she didn’t give one crap about her ‘bill’ (what’s that?) until she lost her water. It’s all about MENTALITY - not an actual problem that could have been resolved years ago had she actually cared.

What did she care? She has her tattoos, he hair did and her nails, didn’t she?


48 posted on 06/29/2014 5:25:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: grania
The only answer is inner city jobs...bring manufacturing back. Then people will have paychecks instead of freebies.

I agree 100% but the city itself is largely responsible for killing small business. Big guys are actually thriving and growing in Detroit because they can afford regulatory and tax costs while the little guy can't.

As far as bringing manufacturing back, I think that is actually happening but it's hindered by the border bottleneck there. Once the new bridge is built it will free things up considerably.
49 posted on 06/29/2014 5:26:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: SkyPilot

I see Nicole can afford tattoos, manicures and lots of food. Perhaps her priorities are a bit off.


50 posted on 06/29/2014 5:26:46 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: maggief

This is a Georgia woman IIRC. She was too stupid the photographer and reporter were making sure her ‘complete’ story was told. LOL


51 posted on 06/29/2014 5:26:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SkyPilot

She can’t pay her water bill but I bet she paid cash for the tattoos & hair stylin.
Prospective homeland security (risk) employee?


52 posted on 06/29/2014 5:27:19 AM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: F15Eagle

No, it’ll get much worse before it gets better if it ever does. And now we have this permanent underclass like untouchables in India. And, yes, it was Democratic policies that destroyed Detroit. Read the book “Miriam’s Kitchen,” about the Jewish flight from Detroit in the 60s. A great city brought low.


53 posted on 06/29/2014 5:27:27 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: BykrBayb

She’s on the nail-installment plan...RIGHT


54 posted on 06/29/2014 5:28:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Daffynition

You could post that photo on any thread, and my first guess would still be Detroit.


55 posted on 06/29/2014 5:32:03 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Wagglebee, welcome home we missed you! ~ Þ)
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To: SkyPilot
""When there is genuine inability to pay, human rights simply forbids disconnections," Catarina de Albuquerque, the [United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights]'s expert on the human right to water and sanitation"

Then why don't you take up a collection of your fellow liberals and pay their bills for them out of your own pockets? I mean, if you really cared about them, you would.

56 posted on 06/29/2014 5:32:31 AM PDT by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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To: SkyPilot
you think this is something that only happens somewhere like Africa

But that's what you have voted for year after year, after year. You have voted for the Robert Mugabe types, and they have driven your fair city into the ground. You're suprised that they don't have a pot to piss in let alone a window to throw it out of.

So, just where do you think that, that treated water comes from and what does it cost to provide it. It isn't free, and yet in keeping with your Free Shit Army mentality, you expect someone other than yourself to bear those costs. And, how many kids to you have again?

59 posted on 06/29/2014 5:35:55 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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Joyce Carol Oates blames ‘ruins of Detroit’ on racial inequality, police harassment

http://twitchy.com/2014/06/28/joyce-carol-oates-blames-ruins-of-detroit-on-racial-inequality-police-harrassment/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter


60 posted on 06/29/2014 5:36:05 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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