I don't think we can lay Detroit at his feets. Detroit has been decades in the making. Probably since they elected their first socialist Africanmerican mayor. Now they are reaping what they have sown.
I do see a couple of things in the story that I find interesting. 1) it seems to come as a shock to some that clean purified water is not FREE. 2) You cannot spell Detroit without a RIOT.
There’s another odd thing about the article: it never states what the Detroit water rates are. Water is usually pretty cheap. Where I live I can fill a 32,000 gal. swimming pool for about $80.00. My monthly water bill is only about $15.00; for three or four people, that would be about $45.00 - $60.00, assuming reasonably cautious consumption. At the same time, if somebody didn’t pay a $45.00/mo. bill for a whole year, the arrears would add up to $540.00. Looks to me like a lot of de brudders in Detroit have been getting “free” water courtesy of the taxpayers and, as the Rev. Wright would say, “De chickens are com’in home to roost.”