Beware of the UN Takeover of American Water Supplies

[donnay]

Beware of the UN Takeover of American Water Supplies

Dave Hodges
The Common Sense show
September 6th, 2014



Millions of children under five die every year due to toxic germ-infested unsafe drinking water. This means that almost four babies a minute die from a lack of water according to UN-Water’s estimations. In the 2014 World Water Report released on the eve of World Water Day, the UN said that 768 million people do not have adequate access to water, 2.5 billion do not have access to improved sanitation. Among the deprived are a significant number of people in Detroit. It would seem that the problems of the third world are being visited upon Detroit and soon the rest of the country.

Obama Refuses to Bail Out the People of Detroit

Obama has taken American taxpayer funds to bail out the privately owned General Motors. Obama has helped himself to the same pot of money and has devastated this country by bailing out key Wall Street businesses (e.g. Goldman Sachs). However, when it comes to helping 700,000 residents of Detroit, they are not worthy of anObama bailout, even when their health and their very lives are being put in danger by severe third world economic conditions that are currently present in Detroit.

Detroit is trying to come to grips with its newly founded Chapter 9 Bankruptcy plan that includes a significant loss of pension benefits for retired city employees. However, the most devastating part of the Detroit financial crisis may not be the loss of pension benefits, it is the access to clean drinking water. Today, Detroit is a city in which nearly 50% of the residents will soon have no access to clean drinking water. Yes, that is correct, nearly half of the residents in Detroit, cannot obtain clean water and this has become a serious life crisis. Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) announced it would send shut-off notices to customers with balances more than $150 past due or who are more than 60 days behind in their water payments. The department, has stated that nearly 50% of Detroit’s 324,000 water bills are overdue. Already, 4,500 accounts have had their water shut off by DWSD. This is a looming health crisis of epic proportions!

Obama’s refusal to involve himself in helping the people of Detroit in such a stark contradiction of his constitutionally mandated priorities, is yet another example of Obama’s Treason Quotient.

Both history and current events demonstrate that the more debt a country acquires, the more at risk that country has with regard to losing control over its infrastructure and in particular, its water supplies to private interests.

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[Zippyjuan]

Obama’s refusal to involve himself in helping the people of Detroit in such a stark contradiction of his constitutionally mandated priorities, is yet another example of Obama’s Treason Quotient.

Do you think the government should be bailing out cities like Detroit?

Detroit is not the only city threatening to cut off people who don't pay their bills: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ills/13228207/

[donnay]

Do you think the government should be bailing out cities like Detroit?

Detroit is not the only city threatening to cut off people who don't pay their bills: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ills/13228207/

No not at all. But why are they charging for water anyway? So they can control it.

[presence]

Do you think the government should be bailing out cities like Detroit?

Detroit is not the only city threatening to cut off people who don't pay their bills: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ills/13228207/

No.

The government should remove regulations on private wells and septic systems.
The government should remove restrictions on composting toilets (1/3 of domestic water usage is flushed).
The government should allow people to have true personal bankruptcy options.
The government shouldn't be "conspicuously consuming" water to keep a green lawn in front of the courthouse.
The government shouldn't own the roads and storm drains that send all of the city's rain water in very expensive sewage systems conjoined with domestic wastewater directly into the Detroit river.

I could go on and on.

The government should GTFO

[acptulsa]

Do you think the government should be bailing out cities like Detroit?

No. People should be bailing out of Detroit. No band aid will stem the bleeding. It's like government paying people to rebuild in flood zones or alleys that tornadoes frequent, like Moore Oklahoma. It's a guarantee that money will be spent, and spent again, and spent yet again. No one benefits from this stopgap crap but bond buyers and the Fed.

Detroit is not the only city threatening to cut off people who don't pay their bills: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ills/13228207/

Really? City water departments cut off people who don't pay?

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

This is about as earth-shattering as the fact that the article writer implied that it would take more to give the people of Detroit palatable water than employing them so they can pay their bills...

[Zippyjuan]

No not at all. But why are they charging for water anyway? So they can control it.

Should the government be providing things free (like water) to citizens (actually it would not be free but included in taxes so maybe you are suggesting taxes should be raised to cover it?)? If water was a private business would they offer water for free or would they charge customers? If customers of a private company didn't pay bills would that company say "OK- we will take care of it" or would they cut off service to that non-paying customer?

"If you never shut the water off for anybody, those people who continue to pay have to shoulder the entire cost of a system that is servicing a lot of customers that aren't paying. That's not a sustainable business model."

[acptulsa]

Should the government be providing things free (like water) to citizens (actually it would not be free but included in taxes so maybe you are suggesting taxes should be raised to cover it?)?

Your question marks inside and outside the parenthesis are redundant as hell.

If water was a private business would they offer water for free or would they charge customers?

Ron Paul charged customers who could afford his services, back in the day, and didn't charge those who couldn't. And Rand Paul is the same way. Have you really never heard of other examples of private enterprise doing the same? Really?

If customers of a private company didn't pay bills would that company say "OK- we will take care of it" or would they cut off service to that non-paying customer?

I've heard of both being done. Does you local gas company really not have a 'share the warmth' program, soliciting donations from customers to help cover poor customers? Really? And your electric company doesn't do that either? Are you sure?

And if you do know about these things, why are you asking questions you damned well know the answers to?

[Zippyjuan]

"Free" is paid for one way or another- higher taxes or higher prices. Those Ron Paul patients who never had to pay were covered by charging other people higher amounts than they would have otherwise paid- or Ron would have been forced out of business if he could not somehow recoup his costs of treating those patients. He was "taxing" his other customers.

[acptulsa]

He was "taxing" his other customers.

And there were no kickbacks. And there were no degrading seventeen page forms to fill out. And there was absolutely no waste. And there were no brib--er, I mean campaign contributions. And the people in the poorest state in the union didn't have to subsidize wealthier Texans. And...

And...

And no one had a gun held to their heads to accomplish it.

'It is necessary always to give a great deal of thought to liberty. There is no substitute for it. Nothing else is quite so effective. Unless it be preserved, there is little else that is worth while. In complete freedom of action the people oftentimes have a more effective remedy than can be supplied by government interference. Individual initiative, in the long run, is a firmer reliance that bureaucratic supervision. When the people work out their own economic and social destiny, they generally reach sound conclusions.'--Calvin Coolidge

[maybemaybenot]

Wait, but how is the UN taking over our water supply? Do they have a useful military all of a sudden? Or did some dude somewhere just say they should or might or could or would maybe consider this?

[donnay]

Wait, but how is the UN taking over our water supply? Do they have a useful military all of a sudden? Or did some dude somewhere just say they should or might or could or would maybe consider this?

Do some research on Agenda 21.

[maybemaybenot]

Do some research on Agenda 21.

Its nonbinding. What's the difference between this and some treaty we can leave on a moment's notice? Btw, I'm afraid of some global communist superstate one day, its the natural tendency of things. But the UN? They're practically a bulwark against international government. The UN only really has the power to issue nonbinding resolutions, and now they creates entirely new bodies that themselves only have the power to issue more nonbinding resolutions?

We should build a statute bigger than the Statute of Liberty, dedicated to the UN, and write "nonbinding resolutions" all over it. Its the most libertarian entity in the history of the world, its a massive government agency that doesn't have the power to do anything.

[Natural Citizen]

"Free" is paid for one way or another- higher taxes or higher prices. Those Ron Paul patients who never had to pay were covered by charging other people higher amounts than they would have otherwise paid- or Ron would have been forced out of business if he could not somehow recoup his costs of treating those patients. He was "taxing" his other customers.

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