Moral Decline of America – Detroit’s Water Cutoffs ‘Blamed on Bankruptcy’

21st Century Wire ^ | 6/30/2014 | SHAWN HELTON

[markomalley]

“Disconnections due to non-payment are only permissible if it can be shown that the resident is able to pay but is not paying. In other words, when there is genuine inability to pay, human rights simply forbids disconnections.”

Yeah, right. This would be a little less comical if the UN acted as they preached.

In the meantime, how can we all not feel for this woman?

Just never mind the big screen TV and xbox in the background...

[samtheman]

The Fruit of Liberalism

[PGalt]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-07/death-and-decay-detroit-real-time-seen-streets

[Aevery_Freeman]

I suspect that there are cultural/biological influences at play as well.

Can anyone tell me if there is a successful black nation on the planet anywhere?

[johniegrad]

Haiti.

[IronJack]

I believe the woman in the picture is actually from Atlanta. Not that the Gimmedat mentality there is a whole lot different than Detroit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Being a deadbeat knows no color.

[RC one]

I’m thinking more along the lines of post Katrina New Orleans. Just waiting on the exodus.

[Squawk 8888]

There are some small black nations in Africa, such as Botswana, that are doing quite well. You never hear about them because nothing “newsworthy” ever happens there.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Hmmm... Whites, blacks, Chinese, Jews, Japanese, and Peruvians all produce the exact same percentage of deadbeats? Interesting.

[RC one]

My water got turned off once. I paid my bill and it got turned back on. It didn’t require UN intervention.

[Kozy]

Since we are now a black run country, we fall into that cesspool of failed black counties. Zimbabwe has nothing on us.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This doesn’t necessarily excuse people not paying their bills, however, when you consider the history of job losses directly attributed to an engineered financial fallout, its hard to reconcile the DWSD’s decision in this situation as there are other accounts of them exorbitantly raising the cost of city water.

So this is the new Liberal angle on people not paying their water bills -- the people can't because they are poor and unemployed. They are poor and unemployed because rich fat cat Wall Street types financially plundered the city. Ergo, its not their fault that they refuse to pay their water bills; its Wall Street's fault.

[Tx Angel]

At least they have water. We are going through the worst drought in our areas history.

Hell, they are about to be recycling our waste water for consumption.

[Yorlik803]

And she has to have top tier Cable....not to mention a couple I phones and other toys.

[Aevery_Freeman]

It’s not the moochers (deadbeats) so much as the looters (Kwame Kilpatrick) that are the problem with Detroit.

[jimt]

Being a deadbeat knows no color.

Worth repeating.

Being a crook doesn't either.

[rstrahan]

Problem is when cities use utilities to increase the General Fund (Denton, TX for example) as opposed to actual costs and reserves for repair and replacement of facilities. Rates skyrocket far faster than inflation and actual costs of doing business.

Detroit needs to reanalyze its fees and costs, then figure out a way to allow the citizens to recover their service. Bet it is still using the fee structure from the old administration with its hidden fees, costs, etc that went to cronies.

[jughandle]

“Water is our human right”
But delivery to your door is not.