Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can’t Pay Their Bill

CBS Detroit ^ | 06/23/2014

[cableguymn]

and if their home owners policy was still enforce I garandamntee the bank collected on it.

Banks will do that with cars that are repo’d to. They will make a claim for any damages they find on the car. Then sell it as-is.

[cableguymn]

Truck them in some water......from Mexico

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Naa.. lead them to the water.. in mexico..

and leave um there.

[RipSawyer]

If Curtrise Garner actually said this, “we also know that there are also people who can’t afford it would can not pay” then they obviously need a new spokeswoman because Curtrise is in big trouble mentally. I am betting this is a bad transcription of what she really said.

[RipSawyer]

“It is not a “basic human right” to have someone else deliver water to your house.”
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No, it is not, as far as I can see, the only things that might qualify to be called basic human rights are the rights you could enjoy if you were the only living human on the planet. In truth I think there are even more basic human rights for the last person alive on the planet than for the ones living on this crowded globe. Those who imagine they have a basic human right to something that must be provided by another person are simply nuts.

It certainly should be obvious by now that anything remotely resembling true freedom can only exist in sparsely populated areas, once the crowding begins freedom starts to be lost. Of course true freedom demands personal responsibility and that is the opposite of having basic human rights provided by others.

[RipSawyer]

Could it possibly be only half? I cannot imagine how.

[RipSawyer]

One of my favorite songs, this was playing regularly on the radio when I was a boy learning to plow the fields with a big black horse with white stocking feet and a white diamond forehead, his name was Dan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDo-KqUjpA

[RipSawyer]

“My kids are going to live in a more limited and poorer US than did I.”
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I, myself am ALREADY living in a much more limited and poorer US than did I. Some may try to say otherwise but they only dream. I know that fifty years ago young men used to graduate from a public high school and go find a job and become settled married men with wives, homes and children well before the age of 25. How much of that is going on now?

[Rusty0604]

There’s your problem right there.

[BwanaNdege]

Neat story about you & Dan. I guess that refrain was in the back of my mind when I wrote that. The song came out the year I was born, but I remember it from later on. Probably on the Roy Rogers radio show.

I never learned to plow. “Pa”, my grandaddy, had a big old mean black mule who knew I was afraid of him. Pa was raising corn out at the “old home place” about 10 miles outside of town. When he was done plowing, I got to ride that mule back to town once, bareback, of course.

As the Chinese curse goes, “may you live in interesting times”. THAT was an “interesting” five hours.

We are truly blessed, having memories like these, aren’t we?

[RipSawyer]

I hope he wasn’t one of those razorback mules with a spine sticking up so it is like riding on an upedged two by four.
By the way there was a story on TV some time back about the civil war prisoner of war camp near Chicago where CONFEDERATE prisoners were treated probably worse than Union prisoners were treated at the infamous “Andersonville” prison. They reported on something called riding the mule. The “mule” looked like a very oversized saw horse and prisoners were made to sit on the narrow upturned edge of the horizontal board and sometimes even had heavy weights attached to their feet as they sat. It was reported that many of the victims were permanently crippled by it.