UN threatens to intervene in Detroit

[M.D. Rawlings]

Where is GM headquartered? Detroit, right? And how much did GM profit while killing Americans? In the billions, right? So Detroit residents can't afford water but GM can profit billions from killing Americans.

God bless the Land of The Free Corporate Market.

None of you have a problem with GM profiting billions while killing Americans? While the citizens in the city in which that corporation resides can't get clean water? No one cares about that? It's all liberals fault that GM profited so many billions of dollars while the city starved around them. It's Obama's fault. It's everyone's fault except GM, right?

GM paying for Detroit residents to have clean drinking water can be the beginning of GM's atonement for profiting off of the preventable deaths of Americans.

Shut. The. Hell. Up. You. Mindless. Brainwashed. Two. Bit. Punk. Imbecile.

 

[Votto]

So none of you have a problem with GM profiting billions off of the deaths of Americans while the entire city dies around them?

Nope...I will give zero fucks if detroit crumbles to dust. They have no one to blame but themselves.

Problem is, like GM, Progressives keep propping up failure.

It is in the vested interest of Progressives to keep people on the verge of death so they can keep feeding them just enough to stay alive and continue to vote for their "help".

The same can be said for GM. Eventually they will need another bail out, and get it.

 

[Votto]

Where is GM headquartered? Detroit, right? And how much did GM profit while killing Americans? In the billions, right? So Detroit residents can't afford water but GM can profit billions from killing Americans.

God bless the Land of The Free Corporate Market.

None of you have a problem with GM profiting billions while killing Americans? While the citizens in the city in which that corporation resides can't get clean water? No one cares about that? It's all liberals fault that GM profited so many billions of dollars while the city starved around them. It's Obama's fault. It's everyone's fault except GM, right?

GM paying for Detroit residents to have clean drinking water can be the beginning of GM's atonement for profiting off of the preventable deaths of Americans.

Shut. The. Hell. Up. You. Mindless. Brainwashed. Two. Bit. Punk. Imbecile.

But if what you say is true, this won't shut him up.

 

[1776]

If not for the auto companies, Detroit's best hope would've been a casino location for Canadian tourists.

 

[RKMBrown]

Detroit was a model US city but when liberal unions got control of the auto companies through ridiculous contracts and the liberal politicians were busy "spreading the wealth" around the city putting Detroit in a financial crisis....the party came to an end, but they couldn't blame the GOP since no GOP mayor has been in charge since the 1960s.

George Bush was just unlucky to be in office when banking policies and housing policies put in place going back to Carter and Clinton blew up on his watch....but of course Obama is reverting back to the liberal scum way and people wonder why the US economy is still shit.

Not to mention the libtards of the 70s who forced our auto companies to move to redesign to use engine killing devices and cheap plastic materials for the cars to make BS environment guidelines for gas mileage.

 

[jon_berzerk]

So none of you have a problem with GM profiting billions off of the deaths of Americans while the entire city dies around them?

Nope...I will give zero fucks if detroit crumbles to dust. They have no one to blame but themselves.

Problem is, like GM, Progressives keep propping up failure.

It is in the vested interest of Progressives to keep people on the verge of death so they can keep feeding them just enough to stay alive and continue to vote for their "help".

The same can be said for GM. Eventually they will need another bail out, and get it.

It is in the vested interest of Progressives to keep people on the verge of death so they can keep feeding them just enough to stay alive and continue to vote for their "help".

as bill whittle says

People Can Live Without A Giant State, But A Giant State Cannot Live Without Dependent People

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[Jughead]

According to writer Jerome Corsi, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s office in Geneva has confirmed that the United Nations is planning to intervene in the ongoing water situation in Detroit, calling it a violation of international law.

1 in 8 people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. Mainly in third world countries. Why isn't the U.N. intervening in those cases? Are they also not violating international law? Is the U.N. offering preferential treatment in some cases? Why is it singling out Detroit?

 

[1776]

Can they throw Obama and the Democrap Detroit politicians in "jail"......lol

 

[MrZartok]

Yeah...I guess that the U.N. will have to take time off from their other action in order to go to Detroit. They will have to pull back from all of those effective peacekeeping missions.....uhhhh, hmmm... They will have to stop feeding the hungry..... Uh, no......they will have to divert energy and resources from spreading the idea of self determination... Uh, oops,....they will have to delay saving the world from polluters....hmmmmmm, guess not,....they will have to pull back from stopping murderous regimes, nooooooo.......


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[AmericanFirst]

U.N. Confirms It Will Intervene in Detroit

Apparently the UN is threatening to intervene in Detroit and force it's inhabitants to be provided water even if they don't or can't pay for it.

Detroit is a microcosm of the liberal path. Destroy the city and hope for a federal and/or international takeover.

And I am sure the socialist left is just fine with that.

 

[Yurt]

i thought most water companies had exemptions if you were extremely poor....

 

[KNB]

So all of you flaming ***** are okay with GM profiting billions of dollars while killing Americans?

There is no better example of just how fucked up Reagan's "trickle down" bullshit theory really is. Detroit needs the auto industry but obviously the auto industry doesn't need Detroit.

Why are Americans unable to afford water in the first place? The articles say that nearly half of Detroit's 300k+ water accounts are past due, with balances averaging $150 or more. GM profited billions by killing Americans. GM can use their blood money to pay off all of the delinquent water accounts in Detroit as the start of their penance for making money off of killing Americans.

Why are all of you blaming poor people because rich people sucked up all of the money to themselves while killing poor people? Why are all of you okay with an American corporation killing Americans for profit?

 

[MACAULAY]

What is being ignored here is that the Federal Government pays poor people enough money, in housing credits, food stamps and related Welfare----to have a house and the money to pay for basics.

Only if the folks in Detroit are buying beer or crack with the Federal Plantation money...would they not be able to pay for water.

The fact that the people of Detroit have sunk into such squalor over the past few decades is the sole responsibility of the Democratic Party---and it bodes ill for the rest of the country that they appear to have learned not a damn thing form the experiment.

Because they are getting ready to try it on us all now.

 

[KNB]

But rich people are richer than ever. GM in Detroit profited BILLIONS by killing Americans.

Is everyone okay with that? Do you think that a $35 million fine is a fitting punishment for a corporation that profited billions while knowingly killing Americans by refusing to fix a very simple defect in their cars for almost a decade?

You're all getting pissed off at poor people who can't afford water while the fantastically wealthy get away with profiting off of killing Americans like you.

 

[MrZartok]

The ideological underpinnings of the U.N. today causes the main motivating factor of the institution to be wealth redistribution on a global level. There are 180 or so states in the world that are U.N. Members. Most of them are poverty stricken shit holes with despotic governments. These third world members have pretty much ceded their sovereignty to the U.N. because they have nothing to lose.

The U.N. provides these shit hole states a platform where they are on equal footing with the wealthy western states. But for this platform these shit states would languish in poverty and obscurity.

Enter a claim for "social justice" (a scam perpetrated by the have nots) by these hell hole states claiming that the west (I.e., America) have usurped resources from the world, accumulated too much wealth (based upon the false assumption that wealth is a finite resource), and are generally bad people due to historical colonialism (which, in reality, was incredibly limited in scope as to all western states - it is far too costly to maintain colonies around the world). This is all, of course, grand horse shit. It is, however, an ideology used to ramp up anti-west sentiment around the world.

Unfortunately, there are also people in our own country who buy into this bullshit. Mostly of it is inconsequential. You just get some anti-capitalist tripe from a few unemployable, young, pot smoking douche bags. I have seen them on this site. They parrot bullshit they read. But they are harmless and not worth a shit.

This anti-west, anti-capitalist shit is poison on an international level. As long as it goes on we should pull back from the U.N. Surprisingly, Obama has not tried to engage us with the organization as much as I thought he would. Maybe he is not as anti-American as I thought. Maybe he is not trying to knock America down a peg or two. Maybe he is merely another inept and crooked Chicago politician that is in over his head. But I digress.

Fuck the U.N. We do not need them. We should only engage it when it serves our purpose. Threatened intervention into the domestic issues in Detroit is a threatened infringement on our sovereignty. I would threaten to throw them out of New York for that bullshit, and to maybe commence armed drone training exercises directly over the Hauge. We already do so much for the rest of the world, certainly much more than we could if we were not as wealthy as we are. Fuck the ungrateful assholes. Let's see what happens to the U.N. If we quit paying our dues for a couple of years. It will devolve into a semi-annual cocktail party for third world dictators to bitch about America and to get blowjobs from brown women.








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[KNB]

Why does anyone ever talk about "wealth redistribution"? Where the fuck do you see ANY of that going on? Where? The GLOBAL rich are richer than ever and only getting richer, so where is all of this "global wealth redistribution"?

Point out one example of rich people suffering at the hands of the impoverished masses. ANYWHERE. Communist China has billionaires. Where are rich people losing their fortunes to the moocher class?

 

[Jughead]

If not for the auto companies, Detroit's best hope would've been a casino location for Canadian tourists.

That's not a bad idea. Folks in Windsor, Canada already head to Detroit to watch sporting events (Lions, Red Wings ...), so they would no doubt head to the casinos as well.

 

[MrZartok]

But rich people are richer than ever. GM in Detroit profited BILLIONS by killing Americans.

Is everyone okay with that? Do you think that a $35 million fine is a fitting punishment for a corporation that profited billions while knowingly killing Americans by refusing to fix a very simple defect in their cars for almost a decade?

You're all getting pissed off at poor people who can't afford water while the fantastically wealthy get away with profiting off of killing Americans like you.

GM did not profit "by killing Americans". First off, I do not think that GM has made much of a profit at all for a number of years to amount to much. Secondly, there is always a cost-benefit analysis when it comes to product liability cases. If that offends your delicate sensibilities, then fine. However, if the price of your Chevy Cobalt increases $2-3,000.00, or more, because of the increased cost to make it both fool proof and as safe as possible, then you will be crying foul again because you cannot afford one.

Yes, GM may have let it slide a bit on safety concerns in this one, isolated incident. They will pay for it in the form of civil liability and harm to the brand. Well, actually we will pay for it, as equity holders. However, they most certainly were not profiting from the act of people dying. You are being terribly misleading here and you are libeling the company, which is a pretty despicable thing in itself and is something that demonstrates poor character on your part.

Grow up. This whole idea of punishing the wealthy is juvenile. There is no group of fat-cat white males sitting in a room lighting fine cigars with burning $100 bills while laughing at poor people. The company is owned by shareholders and managed by a Board of Directors who owe a fiduciary duty to those shareholders to maximize the value of their shares. The executives work for the Board. Individuals own shares, their 401(k) plans includes ownership of shares, people own funds that includes equity ownership, and in the case of GM, the American taxpayer has an equity ownership in the company. It is a publicly-owned company heavily regulated on many levels by the federal government.


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[RoadVirus]

what happened to Detroit? they used to be one of the richest cities in the country

A disease called "Liberalism". It's a very nasty little bugger.

 

[MrZartok]

Why does anyone ever talk about "wealth redistribution"? Where the fuck do you see ANY of that going on? Where? The GLOBAL rich are richer than ever and only getting richer, so where is all of this "global wealth redistribution"?

Point out one example of rich people suffering at the hands of the impoverished masses. ANYWHERE. Communist China has billionaires. Where are rich people losing their fortunes to the moocher class?

Ok, I will take a smack at this softball.

In America, wealth redistribution is seen in the following:

Income taxes

Capital gains taxes (which is an income tax)

The 3.8% ACA surcharge tax on capital gains earnings in excess of $250,000.00

The benefits packages paid to employees as a result of the ACA and collective barraging agreements

The ad valorem taxes assessed by state and local governments

The matching Social Security and Medicare matching contributions that must be paid by employers

The compliance costs related to federal regulations

The fines and fees imposed by federal regulatory agencies

Unemployment tax contributions

The carbon emissions tax

Numerous federal and state highway taxes and usage fees required for distribution (trucking)

Excise taxes and tariffs

Now, when your commerce crosses international borders you have all of these expenses and taxes in each country. Plus, there are other taxes imposed upon foreign countries conducting business inside of countries. In some countries you have individual income tax rates that dwarf those in America. In addition, there is additional risk in conducting business overseas, including political risk.

Further, you have the leftist-socialist-anarchist assholes calling for redistribution. This international push is resulting in increased risk (meaning increased costs). There is slander, strikes, and violence spawning from this ideological rhetoric. Wealth is constantly being drained from the wealth creators all over the world, and the rate of loss is expanding as economies are faltering.

Don't be an asshole. Open your eyes. Maybe divert some of your income from buying weed and buy a book or two and educate yourself.




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