I love how they can't pay their water bills but as the water brigade people walk into the houses, you see them holding smart phones. They sure do have their priorities straight.
[QUOTE=Fausty;45740054]I love how they can't pay their water bills but as the water brigade people walk into the houses, you see them holding smart phones. They sure do have their priorities straight.[/QUOTE]
Because what an employee doing their job buys with his own money is relevant somehow?
"I think when it comes to feeding my kids or paying my water bill I'll feed my kids first."
Uhhh, but water is more important than food for survival.
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;45740392]"I think when it comes to feeding my kids or paying my water bill I'll feed my kids first."
Uhhh, but water is more important than food for survival.[/QUOTE]
You can buy water at the store.
[QUOTE=Fausty;45740054]I love how they can't pay their water bills but as the water brigade people walk into the houses, you see them holding smart phones. They sure do have their priorities straight.[/QUOTE]
Phones are dirt cheap.
[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;45740595]Phones are dirt cheap.[/QUOTE]
Your parents pay for it don't they? Stop talking now. A current gen android smartphone is around $200 with a contract. You then pay monthly. If you have a family of 3 or more then you will pay well over $100 a month for a decent service. And I can almost guarantee that these people have more than 3 in the family.
[QUOTE=Fausty;45741166]Your parents pay for it don't they? Stop talking now. A current gen android smartphone is around $200 with a contract. You then pay monthly. If you have a family of 3 or more then you will pay well over $100 a month for a decent service. And I can almost guarantee that these people have more than 3 in the family.[/QUOTE]
It's called a no contract phone.
[QUOTE=Fausty;45740054]I love how they can't pay their water bills but as the water brigade people walk into the houses, you see them holding smart phones. They sure do have their priorities straight.[/QUOTE]
You know tribes in the middle of sahara have mobile phones that people stopped using 10 years ago, yet they still can't afford clean water.
[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;45740448]You can buy water at the store.[/QUOTE]
And tap water is way way cheaper than bottled water.
Not in Detroit, apparently.
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The concept of needing to pay for water is so foreign to me. Here in Québec it's covered by taxes.
[QUOTE=Fausty;45741166]Your parents pay for it don't they? Stop talking now. A current gen android smartphone is around $200 with a contract. You then pay monthly. If you have a family of 3 or more then you will pay well over $100 a month for a decent service. And I can almost guarantee that these people have more than 3 in the family.[/QUOTE]
My smartphone's only $65, and $30 to refill my account every month
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[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;45742326]Not in Detroit, apparently.
[editline]19th August 2014[/editline]
The concept of needing to pay for water is so foreign to me. Here in Québec it's covered by taxes.[/QUOTE]
The worst part is, most places have one company that provide water, or power. Where I live, when the new year rang in, my power company almost doubled the price, period. The thought behind it was "What are you going to do, go without power?"
Our electric company is state-owned and we have some of the cheapest electricity on earth.
[QUOTE=Fausty;45740054]I love how they can't pay their water bills but as the water brigade people walk into the houses, you see them holding smart phones. They sure do have their priorities straight.[/QUOTE]
The same system that allows these people to buy high-tech commodities is the one that's also preventing them from affording necessary or decent necessities. Water in Michigan is cheap as shit, but if you're expecting everyone just to give up every decent thing in their life so they can afford shit that should be free anyhow then you're just a cock.
Detroit is fucked up anyhow. Years of corruption following industrial and economic collapses has put it in the hole, but the new regime isn't doing any better. Governor Snyder removed democracy in the city and replaced it with an unelected consortium of conservative businesspeople and professional politicians whose motto so far has been "cut welfare, cut pensions, cut salaries, but wages, cut utilities, cut corners" while also "privatize, privatize, sell sell sell". Parks, museums, utilities, social services, police, medics, all of it has been sold or handed over to private companies unaccountable to the public.
This entire thing is a crock of shit and denying loads of people water in a city with 42% of the populace in poverty where the prices are jacked up because water services have been privatized or monopolized is inhumane and despicable.
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[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;45743493]Our electric company is state-owned and we have some of the cheapest electricity on earth.[/QUOTE]
The US has state-sanctioned regional monopolies for utilities. In Detroit, the local monopoly is DTE, a notoriously shitty company with obvious profit interests that also dabbles in lobbying, which is a nice little setup whereing politicians continue to subsidize the company and allow rampancy in DTE's policies in exchange for lods of emone. The company spent nearly $2 million last year on lobbying the federal government.
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