Thousands go without water as Detroit cuts service for nonpayment

LA Times ^ | 28 June 14 | Alana Semuels

[Guardian Sebastian]

Better yet a payment record. Water probably should have been turned off 4 years, 10 months ago. Mine would be shut off after the second bill was not paid.

[Antioch]

He probably avoiding the living room with the 56 inch 3D flatscreen, X-Box and Bose sound system.

[leapfrog0202]

Not as high as it is. In fact, before they asked everyone to REALLY conserve, our rate was around $70. Then after everyone cut way back, they announced the rates would be going up because we cut back “too much” and the water company couldn’t make a profit because people’s bills were too low.

http://www.harvesth2o.com/tale_of_two_cities.shtml#.U7A8w_xOVLN

[leapfrog0202]

So you think that “a while ago” she was on firm financial footing with ample savings and retirement accounts to splurge on tattoos?

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All I meant was she may have had more discretionary spending money at a previous time in her life.

If no one splurged on anything until they had ample savings and a firm financial footing, most people in her shoes would not buy anything and we all know that is not happening.

[leapfrog0202]

Yuck, low flow toilets! I remember the 1950s when high-powered toilets blew you right out of the stall. Hospitals still have them, thank God.

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Yuck is right! The one in our front bathroom never worked right and we always plunged so we ended up buying an air assist low flow and it does make noise, but it gets the job done.

[miss marmelstein]

Low flow toilets - bringing cholera to a theater near you!

[GOPJ]

The guy carrying the sign is wearing prescription sun glasses... maybe rather than buying those he could take some of the five hundred dollars he'd save and pay his water bill... Or is he a 'white liberal elite' pushing for more outrage...

[ViLaLuz]

Ugh...that fugly woman apparently had money for tattoos.

[Cheerio]

Pathetic is not a strong enough of a word for once great Detroit and it's "wagon riding inhabitants", perhaps shameful, miserable, despicable, or worthless work better.

Obama Causes Welfare Chaos In Detroit
Uploaded on Oct 7, 2009

Thousands of people turned out in Detroit today and yesterday to receive "free" taxpayer money for nothing. Fights and chaos were reported by the local media.

[kristinn]

All the people trashing the woman featured in the article as a deadbeat 'gibsmedat' seem to not want to talk about this part of her story:

For the last two years, she has paid $2,800 to try to get caught up, but the utility wants her to pay $1,700 more before she can even get on a payment plan — an amount she doesn't have.

BTW, where are the liberal billionaires who could take of this in an afternoon?

Also, where are the Christian conservative billionaires? They too could take of the $90 million backlog in an afternoon?

[Cheerio]

Money for tattoos but not for a water bill - gimme a break wagon rider!!!

[Cementjungle]

said Hill, a single mother who is studying homeland security at a local college.

That is truly frightening.

[bert]

——It’s not practical——

that is the kind of rationalization that keeps people unemployed

[castlebrew]

Maybe she could rent out some of that space for advertisements...

[tcrlaf]

Perhaps she could have used some of that tattoo money for her water bill???

[A CA Guy]

Doesn’t the Obama phone come with water delivery.

[SgtHooper]

Now isn’t that a novel idea, and I am guessing you are not even a rocket scientist! :-)

[tcrlaf]

“Yes, we are in Depression II. I know it, first-hand. There are no easy answers. I say, unfortunately, it will get worse.”

You can’t say that! Only a racist, and quite possibly, AN EVIL Christian, that hates the idea of a black man as President would say that.

My TV told me so.

[SgtHooper]

Now wait one minute! We have not heard from Laz on this specimen!!

[RWB Patriot]

Meanwhile, you can get arrested for trying to gather water from the rain or off of your roof.