true, except the article says they are paying plumbers to illegally turn it back on... then again i guess they prolly could illegally turn valves on sewer lines as well as water lines
Posted on 07/19/2014 4:11:52 PM PDT by absentee
The bankrupt city of Detroit has a water problem. The city is trying to collect over $90 million dollars in unpaid water bills. As part of that effort, thousands of residents have had their service cut off. On Friday, in conjunction with the Netroots Nation conference, a rally and march were held to protest the service interruptions and demand the water be turned back on regardless of any money owed. Congressman John Conyers spoke to the crowd at the march, demanding that corporations pay up what they owe so that residents who owe can have their bills covered.
"We're gonna fight like the devil to make sure that nobody's water is cut off. Nobody's. So it's in that spirit that we want to thank SEIU and the unions, and everybody that's working with them. We're all in this together.
And our message to the head of the sewage, the water and sewage department: keep your paws off the water! Leave it on. We need more water, not less water. And by the way, while you're at it. Why don't you get these corporations and banks to pay up the hundreds of thousands of dollars they owe?"
It was not immediately clear how water would be provided to the city if the Water Department took their "paws" off the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at truthrevolt.org ...
Aren’t they a few miles from one of the largest fresh-water lakes on Earth? So, go get some.
HOWEVER...there are two sides to this. I read that their water bills are $80 a month for a small home with a postage-stamp lawn. Considering the availability of water there, this is ridiculous. Obviously, the people who pay are subsidizing those who don’t, or there is some kind of massive corruption, or incredibly poor planning (like, having the infrastructure to support two million people but having only 680,000 customers). That’s not fair either.
Who can give free water
Power for you too
Cover it with chocolate and a hopey changey dew
The mulato man, oh the mulato man can
The mulato man can cause he mixes in racism in a country that's been screwed.
“problem is there’s no sewer shut off “
First Rule of Plumbing: “$hit Runs Downhill,” but only if you add water to “help it along.” So, W/O water, the sewer is effectively “shut off.”
Yeah, they’s got it so bad in SF dat de wimin be knocking of kids selling candy on de streets! (At least I be thinkin’ dat be a womin, but you be de judge!)
http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/07/18/arrest-in-robbery-of-s-f-girl-who-was-selling-candy/
“Grab your buckets, kids, and follow him out to the Detroit River. THAT water is free, take as much as you can carry !”
But that would involve work! “Weeze be averse to workin’. We Gibbsmedats, spect everthn’ be handed to us, fo’ free”
Only in Detroit.
true, except the article says they are paying plumbers to illegally turn it back on... then again i guess they prolly could illegally turn valves on sewer lines as well as water lines
“true, except the article says they are paying plumbers to illegally turn it back on...
then again i guess they prolly could illegally turn valves on sewer lines as well as water lines”
Just had to deal with a water problem yesterday. In the process, I had a good look at the water meter. upstream of the meter, there’s a shutoff valve that has a provision for a padlock. Now, I guess you could cut the lock off, but it would be a bitch here, because it’s in the meter box at the curb, underground.
Places like Detroit end up looking very much like the Soviet Union. So when they collapse, the freeloading residents are left out in the cold (literally). Guys like Conyers pi$$ me off because they know that w/o money from nearly all the users, the water district will have to shut down. Detroit, has finally run out of other people’s money!
my bad, it was in a different thread...
The Atlantic reported on July 17 that residents are paying plumbers $30 to turn their water back on illegally. Although, while Netroots participants were there to be the voices for these people, the folks affected are remaining quiet:
I hope they succeed. I’m really sick of paying that $60 a month water bill. Free water for everyone!!!!
get us some of that OBAMA-WATER!!!!
100%...
Will he make a similar statement to the IRS?
The bill probably includes the pension and health care for retired water dept employees.
“That’s inevitably what’s going to happen. People are going to demand basic services while their strings are being pulled by the DNC and their various leftist groups and spokespeople.”
It is already happening; taxpayers provide free food, shelter, schooling, and cash to a permanent underclass that hasn’t contributed anything in generations. Now they are just asking for a little more; their water bills are tiny in comparison to what these parasites already cost us.
Condemn their damn houses and send in the bulldozers!
“Half the country ... all their lives they’ve depended on the kindness of strangers (taxes). They won’t pay a nickel for their own welfare, unless it’s withheld from their Section 8, EBT, ADC—whatever. The Obamanites have put themselves in yet another pickle with this fantasy that their base will pay a mite towards their own health care.”
It was never the “kindness of strangers” (that would be charity); it was taken by the government. They have no intention of ever paying for anything, and both parties know it. Here in Newark NJ they laid off 160 cops at the height of a record-setting murder trend; the gibsmedats have lost their police protection (and the increased shootings amply show this). They will lose their fire protection, drink mud-colored water, and have 200 children per classroom because the state and remaining taxpayers here in NJ have no more money for their freebies.
i bet if they were all inspected inside, many of them would be condemned...
I just bought my youngest daughter that book. The days are finally here as she has her first job and is a tax payer now. Its amazing how quickly her media induced opinions are changing. Well, more welcomed than amazing.
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