[cripplecreek]

Pay your bill.

[Darksheare]

I notice how they gloss over the nonpayment of utilities portion to shriek and propagandize about those same utilities being shut off.

[Jack Hydrazine]

When did water become a right? Where is that protected in the Constitution?

[Jonty30]

Not even government monopolies can afford to run when people aren’t paying their bills.

[luvbach1]

What isn’t a human right to a liberal?

[EEGator]

What is Morgan Freeman doing there?

[OldSmaj]

...getting their water shut off – for owing as little as $150 or two months in bills.

Dayum!

My water company will shut off at 10 days.

Period.

But I don't worry...I pay my bill, you bunch of freeloading gibsmedats!

[OldSmaj]

What the hell is a “skola”?

[School of Rational Thought]

When an organization does not meaningfully collect debts owed, the debtor base is being educated not to expect having to pay that debt.

The customer base needs to be reeducated.

In past circumstances, new programs have to be vetted by all stakeholders, focus groups need to be used, a media campaign needs to launch, ALL DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS MUST BE AFFECTED.

[Rudolphus]

Wowsers I read this then went back and looked for the sarcasm tag.

[digger48]

"How am I supposed to pay these bills?"

[Still Thinking]

Every week, as some 3,000 additional families’ water is shut off by their “public” utility, Detroiters protest on Freedom Friday.

Apparently, in these people's "minds", "public" is synonymous with "free".

[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.

[RetiredTexasVet]

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

[huldah1776]

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

[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.

[berdie]

In what community can people live and have water and not pay the utility company? This is crazy.

I guess you could have a well...but then you need electricity to pump it.

[SkyDancer]

Aren’t they near a lake or something? Who says they have to be supplied with water for free?