You say this like it was a bad thing. The beloved sacred poor are coddled by everyone, paid for by the taxpayers, and live irresponsible life styles at the public's expense. Why are people poor? Because they do things that keep them poor - make repeated bad life style choices like squirting out children as fast as their reproductive systems can cycle, spending their mony on things like beer cigarettes and lotto tickets and above all not working all that much. Family income ON AVERAGE correlates to the number of hours worked in a week, with the lowest income families working 20 hours or less, middle income families working 40 hours, and higer income families working 80 or more hours a week. Let the "poor" pay.
Talk about ignorant and obnoxious statements...
Water unlike gasoline, is a necessity for life. Some folks are out there just getting by and do not consider themselves poor. As a society and community we have an ethical and spiritual obligation to defend and protect those who are less fortunate.
On the other hand, our fair city has many fortunate homeowners who have “won life’s lottery HA!) and they have automatic sprinklers that pee this precious resource daily on their fescue. My neighbor gayly auto-sprinkles his pine straw as well as the street. Triple the price and he would never know it. This is his third house and we never see him. CUT OFF HIS WATER!
That will give people a taste of what is coming to our fair city of ATLANTA; RATIONING.
The Atlanta City Council needs to get somebody at Water Works to turn it off for ONE HOUR NOW. Let everybody, rich & poor appreciate where we are going.
If we triple the cost of water now, it will not impact anybody until DECEMBER and by then, we will stink from no showers. You will be remote officing from Chattanooga and I will camp at my better neighbors house for his well water.
The CITY of Atlanta needs to take some amphetamines and go to work.