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grahamhgreen

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22. True, but it shouldn't be left up to charity, water is a human right.

Reply to leftieNanner (Reply #10)

Sun Jul 27, 2014, 12:07 AM

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DETROIT SHUTS OFF WATER TO RESIDENTS BUT NOT TO BUSINESSES WHO OWE MILLIONS [View all] grahamhgreen Jul 2014 OP

I wish I could even fake some surprise at this. NaturalHigh Jul 2014 #1

Well, duh. The only "people" who count are fetuses and corporations. Scuba Jul 2014 #2

Let's not forget the dead. deafskeptic Jul 2014 #3

+1,000 Scuba Jul 2014 #4

+1 Enthusiast Jul 2014 #8

Yea the people who would lose their jobs from the water being shut of to these businesses dont count Egnever Jul 2014 #6

When you owe somebody $1000, cloudbase Jul 2014 #5

When you owe $1 million Curmudgeoness Jul 2014 #7

capitalism mikeysnot Jul 2014 #9

If you REALLY want to help leftieNanner Jul 2014 #10

. BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2014 #11

That is great as a bandaid but I think somebody needs to figure out why an old lady would be TheKentuckian Jul 2014 #12

That seems terribly high REP Jul 2014 #14

Because water bills are regressive philip.chinery Jul 2014 #17

I know. Something is very wrong there arikara Jul 2014 #19

The $180 monthly payment only goes toward her past due bill. JimDandy Jul 2014 #36

True, but it shouldn't be left up to charity, water is a human right. grahamhgreen Jul 2014 #22

You're right arikara Jul 2014 #37

Just checked the records and... TRoN33 Jul 2014 #13

$180 a month?!?! WTF wryter2000 Jul 2014 #15

Something stinks oldandhappy Jul 2014 #16

Yes! Something stinks to high heavens! burrowowl Jul 2014 #20

The $180 almost certainly includes payment on JimDandy Jul 2014 #21

No, her past due was like a grand, she was talking about this as a monthly obstacle. TheKentuckian Jul 2014 #23

The $1,100 was the amount to turn the water back on. JimDandy Jul 2014 #24

Well, I can't come up with an alternative way to process it other than $180/month TheKentuckian Jul 2014 #25

Well it's worse then we both thought...She had a $4,000 bill due to a leak JimDandy Jul 2014 #27

Yikes! You know there are TeaPubliKlan shenanigans afoot. Everything is an extraction scam. TheKentuckian Jul 2014 #31

Just for us peons, though, not for the businesses. n/t JimDandy Jul 2014 #35

What kind of a leak uses that much water? JoeyT Jul 2014 #33

The leak may have been going on JimDandy Jul 2014 #34

Zero tolerance for humans Trillo Jul 2014 #18

And we do nothing...and when I say we I include myself, but this has to change randys1 Jul 2014 #26

We treat corporations like Gods. Corporations treat us like farm animals. whereisjustice Jul 2014 #28

Can the U.S. Army come to their rescue with these? valerief Jul 2014 #29

We gave 16+ TRILLION to corrupt banksters. We can forgive this debt. grahamhgreen Jul 2014 #32

So corporations get treated like people, but people do not. Corporate socialism at its finest. EEO Jul 2014 #30