Know what happens when the Liberal solutions are actually carried out? The victim is 'carried out.'
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
1." In March, the city of Detroit revealed that a full half of its residents weren’t paying their water bills. Of 300,000 accounts, almost 150,000 were delinquent.
a. ...the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is so heavily indebted (it owes over $6 billion and cannot borrow more money), it needs to squeeze all it can from its few honest customers ...
Socialism.
b. In May, Detroit sent out 46,000 cutoff notices to people who refused to pay their bills—some of them for eight years or more....
2. Liberal busy-bodies to the rescue:
"The United Nations says there is a humanitarian crisis in Detroit. It claims the city is violating its citizens’ basic and fundamental “human right to water and other international human rights” by shutting off water to those who refuse to pay. “The households which suffered unjustified disconnections must be immediately reconnected,” it states.
a. The Guardian newspaper sides with the UN report. Detroit cutting water service to households for non-payment is “economic shock therapy at its most ruthless and racist,”....
3.... the city decided to do what logic, common sense, and economics demand—something it should have done decades ago—and what would have avoided this whole situation in the first place: Shut the water off."
Tapped Out - theTrumpet.com
4. Now, consider carefully....because this applies to all sorts of Liberal policies....welfare not the least among them!
a. "What happened? Mass deaths to dehydration? Disease epidemics? Child welfare agents breaking down doors to take children away from parents who couldn’t afford to provide water? No.....
5. Within 24 hours, 60 percent of people had paid their bills in full. Of those remaining, another 40 percent had paid within 48 hours. Consequences produce results.
a. Brings this to mind: "Stand erect, or be made to stand erect." Marcus Aurelius
6. Less than 10 percent of the accounts (4,531) actually ended up having their water cut off for any period. Of those addresses that did have their water cut, the large majority were vacant properties whose owners did not live there anymore. Of those people who did have their water cut off, about half eventually paid their bills on their own."
Op. Cit.
7. Were there actual citizens who didn't have the ability to pay? Sure. But "programs existed for years, but many people chose not to use them when they could, deciding instead just to not pay their bills at all. Seventeen thousand Detroit residents are now enrolled in such plans that base payments on each customer’s financial situation and ability to pay."
Op.Cit.
a. That's 133,000 out of 150,000 who simply decided to let others take care of their bills for them. Again? Only 11 percent legitimately could not pay.
b. Apply that to welfare: 47 million are receiving food stamps nationally. And the percent of those 47 million who could take care of themselves if they had to....?
What if it's only 11 percent, too?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
1." In March, the city of Detroit revealed that a full half of its residents weren’t paying their water bills. Of 300,000 accounts, almost 150,000 were delinquent.
a. ...the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is so heavily indebted (it owes over $6 billion and cannot borrow more money), it needs to squeeze all it can from its few honest customers ...
Socialism.
b. In May, Detroit sent out 46,000 cutoff notices to people who refused to pay their bills—some of them for eight years or more....
2. Liberal busy-bodies to the rescue:
"The United Nations says there is a humanitarian crisis in Detroit. It claims the city is violating its citizens’ basic and fundamental “human right to water and other international human rights” by shutting off water to those who refuse to pay. “The households which suffered unjustified disconnections must be immediately reconnected,” it states.
a. The Guardian newspaper sides with the UN report. Detroit cutting water service to households for non-payment is “economic shock therapy at its most ruthless and racist,”....
3.... the city decided to do what logic, common sense, and economics demand—something it should have done decades ago—and what would have avoided this whole situation in the first place: Shut the water off."
Tapped Out - theTrumpet.com
4. Now, consider carefully....because this applies to all sorts of Liberal policies....welfare not the least among them!
a. "What happened? Mass deaths to dehydration? Disease epidemics? Child welfare agents breaking down doors to take children away from parents who couldn’t afford to provide water? No.....
5. Within 24 hours, 60 percent of people had paid their bills in full. Of those remaining, another 40 percent had paid within 48 hours. Consequences produce results.
a. Brings this to mind: "Stand erect, or be made to stand erect." Marcus Aurelius
6. Less than 10 percent of the accounts (4,531) actually ended up having their water cut off for any period. Of those addresses that did have their water cut, the large majority were vacant properties whose owners did not live there anymore. Of those people who did have their water cut off, about half eventually paid their bills on their own."
Op. Cit.
7. Were there actual citizens who didn't have the ability to pay? Sure. But "programs existed for years, but many people chose not to use them when they could, deciding instead just to not pay their bills at all. Seventeen thousand Detroit residents are now enrolled in such plans that base payments on each customer’s financial situation and ability to pay."
Op.Cit.
a. That's 133,000 out of 150,000 who simply decided to let others take care of their bills for them. Again? Only 11 percent legitimately could not pay.
b. Apply that to welfare: 47 million are receiving food stamps nationally. And the percent of those 47 million who could take care of themselves if they had to....?
What if it's only 11 percent, too?
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