Posted on 10/20/2014 9:07:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Lake Huron....is not that far from Detroit...
maybe the UN can BUY Lake Huron...and build a pipeline to the “poorer” neighborhoods....?
I support the UN findings. In Michigan, you are never more than six miles from navigable water. Each family shall be given, at no charge one five gallon pail per family member with a sealed lid and one gallon of bleach per year. They can walk, or on their own find alternate transportation to a water source and thus have a limitless supply of free water.
shouldn’t need to do that, there was a ton of flooding in detroit this year.
Go down to the creek and get all the water you want. If you want it purified, disinfected and delivered to the showerhead in your home, it’s going to cost you because people are employed to make that shower happen. Somebody dug and maintains a well or a dozen wells. Somebody else connects and repairs pipes and somebody else works the water treatment plant which uses electricity. All those somebodies have salaries, vacation plans, retirement plans and sick days that must be paid. The company has an electric bill and payroll. No sympathy from the California dust bowl, where we beg for every drop and growing food is more important than two showers a day.
Everything should be free!
“Denying people water? I’m all for people pulling their weight, but water? That makes no sense. We aren’t talking about landscaping and golf courses. Water to drink and wash should never be denied to people, money or no money.”
Seeing this posted by someone with your moniker is astounding....or you forgot your sarc tag....
There is a huge river that every detroit resident can access. They can take all of the buckets they want and get all of the free water they can carry....
Fine, you pay for it.
I see people on here who think that people who don’t pay their water bills should have their water shut off. I can agree with that but then some go on to say, “except for the truly needy”.
Nope, not even for the “truly needy”. Find that in the constitution for me please. I don’t owe anybody’s water bill but my own.
If my neighbor or a relative falls on hard times and needs my help, I will be the one who decides whether they are “truly needy” or not. It should never be up to the government to decide which people get my money as welfare.
Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man, since there was still enough and as good left, and more than the yet unprovided could use. So that, in effect, there was never the less left for others because of his enclosure for himself. For he that leaves as much as another can make use of does as good as take nothing at all. Nobody could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst. And the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same.
John Locke
Man has a natural right to water, because without it there can be no life. To deny a man water is tyranny. What would Locke say? Or, what would Jesus say?
Again, who gets to pay for their water if they don’t pay for it themselves?
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