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TheKentuckian

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

Reply to JimDandy (Reply #24)

Sun Jul 27, 2014, 11:58 AM

Jul 2014

Perhaps we are the victims of poor writing but from what is there it seems clear to me and anything else requires reinterpretation or outside assumptions.
Harris has since come up with $1,100 to have services restored but is having trouble keeping her $180 monthly payment to the water department. On top of that, her home has entered foreclosure because Detroit water bills are rolled into property taxes."
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$180.00 monthly is expressly stated and if true then no wonder folks are falling behind and getting cut off, I'll error on the side of there is a problem.

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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