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[Minimalist]

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/judge-...e-no-right

Judge Rules Poor People Have No Right To Water, Shutoffs To Continue

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes decided that the poor do not have a right to water, and allowed the water shutoffs in Detroit to continue. The ruling comes in response to a plea to ban the shutoffs for six months. In the land of the allegedly free, this is just one more way to punish the poor for having the audacity to be poor.

[ForumMember77]

The silver lining being your aid money will only have to travel to Detroit to build wells for Africans asking for a hand out, while the ones living beside you are asking for a hand up.

[The Valkyrie]

Holy fuck.

This is fucking ridiculous.

To any decent minded person, as far as I'm concerned, access to the basics, such as water, is a fucking right.

What next? They don't have a right to breathe?

[Jackalope]

To any decent minded person, as far as I'm concerned, access to the basics, such as water, is a fucking right.

Not only that - but NOT having access to water is a fucking public health hazard.

Wait until the *people* (emphasis on that word for the empathy-impaired) who have been shut off to turn up at the emergency room with dehydration, dysentery or cholera and we'll see just how penny wise and pound foolish this fucking decision is.

[The Valkyrie]

To any decent minded person, as far as I'm concerned, access to the basics, such as water, is a fucking right.

Not only that - but NOT having access to water is a fucking public health hazard.

Wait until the *people* (emphasis on that word for the empathy-impaired) who have been shut off to turn up at the emergency room with dehydration, dysentery or cholera and we'll see just how penny wise and pound foolish this fucking decision is.

Precisely.

Then what? Lock up those they've forced into this situation?

When there are outbreaks of these diseases they'll then blame the victims.

[vorlon13]

Um,


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uh,





Detroit is FUCKING BANKRUPT !!


How do these people expect all of this to work ??? Pure water just magically appears in the pipes and the water department personnel are angels from heaven that require no sustenance, shelter or health care ??

[Heywood]

To any decent minded person, as far as I'm concerned, access to the basics, such as water, is a fucking right.

Not only that - but NOT having access to water is a fucking public health hazard.

Wait until the *people* (emphasis on that word for the empathy-impaired) who have been shut off to turn up at the emergency room with dehydration, dysentery or cholera and we'll see just how penny wise and pound foolish this fucking decision is.

So far this year they have shut off 24,000 accounts. How many people are served under each account? Well the average household size in Detroit is 2.77 so I am guessing that so far this year...66480 people in Detroit have had water service to their homes cut off.

If 66480 people in Detroit really have no access to water...possibly as long as 10 months.....why arn't the streets filled with bodies of people who died of dehydration, dysentery, or cholera? Why arn't the emergency rooms packed? Typically you take the dirt nap after about 3 days without water......so why isn't the tragedy you claim will happen...happening?

Now I haven't made up my mind about this judges decision but I have come to the conclusion that water is still a resource that is fairly easy for the citizens Detroit to obtain even if water service to their homes is cut off.

[ForumMember77]

I wasn't expecting a rational voice, here here.

Nobody is denying these people access to water, they are denying them access to first world standards of living because it's not a 'right' to have in door plumbing for free.

[Minimalist]

Ah, so you want to wait until the dead are piled up like cordwood, eh? What a fine xtian you are.

[Jackalope]

Here's the problem with your analysis, Heywood - it's only going to take a handful waterborne illness cases requiring hospitalization to overshadow the cost of providing sanitary water to a whole lot of people. Water is cheap - hospital care isn't.