The shocking cost of ‘free’ water in detroit

[Tsing Tao]

Pardon me. I wasn't sure if you were agreeing or just repeating what I said.

Yes, 1 or 2% of the budget is the amount going waste in the social safety net. I presume that even the crazy righties want to help those truly in need. 12% of the budget goes toward that. Which is half the the amount spent on "defense".

I don't necessarily agree. I believe I've asked you for a link on this, but you never supplied one (that I saw). If I missed it, please point it out. If I did not miss it, please supply one.

If you can't supply something, then stop spouting about as if it were fact.

 

[jem]

For a decade I lived close to the beach and used heat or air at most 10 days a year. Sometimes never. One home we owned was 2900 sq feet brand new with the good windows and everything and that was about 400 a month also.

We recently bought a house 10 miles inland in a good school district..
Our bills are not indicative because we were having the home remodeled.

What is your electricity bill on a month in the summer? what is your sq footage?

 

[murray t turtle]

This paragraph perfectly sums up the kind of parasites detroit and liberalism has created, the woman is a community organiser living for free on disability, and complaining she should get her water free too. For some reason she can be a community organiser but is too disabled to work a real job. A total burden to society, that liberal doo gooders are 100% responsible for creating.


Meanwhile, stories of residential shutoffs abound. Tangela Harris been doing her best to keep up, but when she was no longer able to work she had trouble stretching her monthly $780 in disability benefits to pay the water bill. So her water service was disconnected. Harris has since come up with $1,100 to have services restored but is having trouble keeping her $180 monthly payment to the water department. On top of that, her home has entered foreclosure because Detroit water bills are rolled into property taxes.

“They can say my house is condemned and take it,” said Harris, 38, a community organizer. “People think we’re not prioritizing, but it’s not that simple when you’re under the poverty level. It’s a different mindset.”

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Earlier post saysDetroit sells water @ cost.

Why on Gods green earth would'' water sold @ cost sell for $180 per month '' WOW;is she [community organizer]watering her lawn , neighbors lawn,garden + swim pool???????????????????????
And why does the city alow 60 days to cut off????

I asked our water dept; its 30 days, then cut off, with written notice . But then most US citys are NOT socialists

 

[k p]

What was so terrible about allowing corprations to spend money to publicize their positions? It's not like they don't have to identify who they are in their ads if they support or oppose a candidate. Isn't the whole basis of First Amendment jurisprudence that there is a "marketplace of ideas" and that the more speech the better? What is so evil about a company opposing ill-informed attacks on its business and the jobs it provides?

At the heart of corporations is unfortunately an ethic to squash anyone else for the purpose of making it the only company. Given this premise, its not hard to see why it would be in the best interest of the corporation to control the government, to control what it can pay the workers, to control any other options that the said workers might have. (ie. some might argue that if an employee doesn't like his job, he can find another job, but big business has already done a wonderful job of making sure minimum wage being so low gives very little options)

Sure I may make this point a little more dramatic than need be, but profits is after all what a corporation is all about, and then of course there has to be exponential growth until it busts.

And I don't think it should be any different. A corporation should be in the business of making money and making investors happy. But once it is allowed to do so without following any rules, by controlling how those rules that it is to be governed by are written, well, this is really the end.