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S. but  I totally understand why.  I'm sure they want to push all the residents out so that gentrification can move in.  I am reading comments that welfare needs to end.  I say lets start with Corporate welfare.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1541822992799261/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1541822992799261/", "name": "Lelia Collins", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1453146199253, "threadTimestamp": 1453146199253, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "758fbf3a87244545ab1defa9de0cd805", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Their are International human right laws that as stated in this artical that the water can not be turned off. The City had enough money to carry these folks if they paid that kind of money to a contractor! ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/1045552105458209/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1045552105458209/", "name": "Stephen Lombardo", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1428379329089, "threadTimestamp": 1428379329089, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "d33bdd1601b64f169f00f80f16e345b9", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "If you don't pay your bills, your water gets shut off. They should have done it a long time ago. Too many people in this country are living on welfare and this is just another form of it. ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/6203206/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/JimboGoodall", "name": "Jim Goodall", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "a351acae717341e19a506e0ae91c1e26", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "d33bdd1601b64f169f00f80f16e345b9", "threadID": "d33bdd1601b64f169f00f80f16e345b9", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Let's start with cutting Corporate Welfare.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1541822992799261/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1541822992799261/", "name": "Lelia Collins", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1453146272541, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1422075033433, "threadTimestamp": 1422075033433, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "7edd9cfdae144d6e8d7e947626372043", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Basic word problem: Assume everyone that was going to have their water cut off owed $500. Since the city had enough money to hire a contractor for $5.6 million to shut water off, how many people could the city have forgiven their water bill debt and given a fresh start?\r\n$5,600,000 / $500=11,200 people. \r\nThe article states that 10,000 people have their water turned off. \r\nI did the math, you decide what is right or wrong. ", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 2, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/114450950747416902400", "name": "Perfectly Clear", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "4633ff00b6fd4878b5d49b05d1a5e483", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "7edd9cfdae144d6e8d7e947626372043", "threadID": "7edd9cfdae144d6e8d7e947626372043", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Economically speaking, I think the city will make more money by turning off the water. Nothing is more motivating than water to make you pay your bill. And if they don't pay, maybe they will move out and sometime more responsible can move in. ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/6203206/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/JimboGoodall", "name": "Jim Goodall", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1422075568404, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "044f565a6efb468699129e4b09cd1018", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "7edd9cfdae144d6e8d7e947626372043", "threadID": "7edd9cfdae144d6e8d7e947626372043", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Your point is that free loaders should keep free loading and someone will always bail them out?? NO!! People can't keep depending on the governmen to wipe out their bills for them. This should only happen in extreme circumstances or injury. Not because of welfare handed down from one generation to the next and so on. This needs to stop. Handouts need to stop! If these people can get off their assessment to get out and protest they can work. Get a job and work at walmart. Do something to help themself! ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/10205945274049930/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/10205945274049930/", "name": "Karen Stress-Louis", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1441252819499, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414357303848, "threadTimestamp": 1414357303848, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "bb2886552017482e9eeaf202c050aa7d", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I am guessing some of these comments are written by politicians or those involved in the profit taking upon the misery of poor people in Detroit. There is a national poverty level, and accurate numbers of working people below it would probably be shocking. I never heard of \"Working poor\" 20 years ago. The money spent on shutoff contractors was blatant theft. Those that think they are paying the total cost of water delivery with their water bill are mistaken. Maybe a sliding scale of ability to pay by income level is in order. Those of substantial income will be shocked to find the real cost of water delivery without subsidies. Maybe they should pay the total cost before complaining. All citizens of a city are guaranteed equal treatment by law, It works both ways.", "TotalVotes": 2, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/109909610464926682501", "name": "Alan Szabo", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414196370434, "threadTimestamp": 1414196370434, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "d5bb70e7542e4ce6afaae8ef09d3c295", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "How do we reach a middle ground? How do we balance the needs of the people who struggle, versus encouraging them to also work hard and improve their skills. I also think taxes are not fairly distributed. The wealthy are not taxed enough and corporations get away with too much.\r\n\r\nI also wonder how we balance our different cultural views. It seems that everyone is adamant about getting their way completely instead of understanding differences and truly being tolerant of other views and ideas. Tolerance, in my opinion, means I respect your viewpoint - even though I don't agree with it. Today, it seems we just demonize those who don't agree. So, for example, I would be labeled a homophobe if I don't agree with gay marriage. Or, if I think we should help people who struggle, then I am labeled a \"liberal\" by some.\r\n\r\nThis situation in Detroit reflects the fact that the current economic order has serious issues. There many good ideas from various perspectives on how to fix it. For our solutions to work, we will need a better class of public servants. Ones that truly work together to solve problems instead of posturing.", "TotalVotes": 2, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/117235748013610896512", "name": "Malcolm Turner", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "db70bfddc8ac4fb88aede3843eb083af", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "d5bb70e7542e4ce6afaae8ef09d3c295", "threadID": "d5bb70e7542e4ce6afaae8ef09d3c295", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "\"For our solutions to work, we will need a better class of public servants. Ones that truly work together to solve problems instead of posturing.\"\r\n\r\nTruer words have never been spoken!", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/509624590/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/gromer", "name": "Mike Gromer", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1419885463400, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414096700307, "threadTimestamp": 1414096700307, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "901bfd1e53624ba4afb0e2e0be7fa75a", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I'm in Upstate NY. Disabled and had a bad period of illness. Lost my car in a repo and almost lost my home. The water \"authority\" as they are known, kept bugging me. It did get high- shut me off once, and I endured public humiliation with these very large-bright yellow stickers attached to the front windows with large print stating a threat to shut the water. \r\nThe bad part is they just billed my escrow account as a tax and got paid. \r\nKnowing, all along they can do it- yet still humiliated me all because I was having a bad time with health issues. I asked our local state rep for help as an advocate and remind them they can bill the escrow anytime as a tax, and get paid, and- nothing! \r\nIt's water! This is a country that is supposed to be advanced- and we can spend millions on helping other countries- wars-but allow our own to be humiliated and loose a life giving-necessary thing like water. Is the money that important? If the congress can fund war why not help with it's own people? ", "TotalVotes": 2, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/100006387610205/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/al.marshall.969", "name": "Al Marshall", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414082384107, "threadTimestamp": 1414082384107, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "88da76c38c734cda97ef97ad8a6c1e15", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Ok, the city is bankrupt. They are cutting off water because they need the money. But they pay $5.6 million for someone to actually shut the water off? Where did that money come from? And why aren't these rich companies' water getting shut off? $80,000 water bill? Seriously? I smell a rat.", "TotalVotes": 2, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/1321240289/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.a.garland", "name": "Kimberly Anderson", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "2c5fca9f20f44b949187fe972c188e6e", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "88da76c38c734cda97ef97ad8a6c1e15", "threadID": "88da76c38c734cda97ef97ad8a6c1e15", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "EXACTLY!!!!!!!!", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/1541822992799261/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1541822992799261/", "name": "Lelia Collins", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1453146011027, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414078207349, "threadTimestamp": 1414078207349, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "d09f1407a4fc4a8e828dfb8d0f8e9126", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Water should never be shut off.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "http://abs.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_5_normal.png", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/copperspaniel1", "name": "copperspaniel1", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "providerPostIDs": { "twitter": "525025311331979264" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "0167b90dc1be461c8fce7b5837c4bec5", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "d09f1407a4fc4a8e828dfb8d0f8e9126", "threadID": "d09f1407a4fc4a8e828dfb8d0f8e9126", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Easy for you to say.\r\nThe American government has billions and trillions to spend on the military for illegal wars, supporting corrupt and bankrupt bankers with billions and trillions who then are allowed to give themselves indecent large bonuses from the tax payers money.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "profileURL": "https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nick-vanderdussen/1b/774/9b8", "name": "Nick vanderdussen", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "LinkedIn" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414031398043, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414010763126, "threadTimestamp": 1414010763126, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "b873287367a04bfca68dd8f3da204c83", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "No one should have their Running water supply shut off for any reason, or we could be looking at something bigger than Ebola !!! ", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "http://abs.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_5_normal.png", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/copperspaniel1", "name": "copperspaniel1", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "ac7700f130b2419aa228eef088f67806", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "b873287367a04bfca68dd8f3da204c83", "threadID": "b873287367a04bfca68dd8f3da204c83", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Approximately 6,000 children under the age of five perish every day from disease and illness caused by unsanitary drinking water. This year over 3.5 million people will die from waterborne diseases and the majority of them will be kids less than ten years old.\r\n\r\nyeah, i'd say that's probably bigger than Ebola... ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/519171325449863168/V7iLoxL__normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/bikinisincali", "name": "bikinisincali", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414014761221, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414008874954, "threadTimestamp": 1414008874954, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "5aa86528adb24aadbb33d622a8f5d3db", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Thanks to Eddie Hamill (Monaghan) for bringing this article to my attention on the subject of the bankrupt city of Detroit and the 27'000 water disconnection so far this year. It makes for grim reading and is no doubt a harbinger of things to come where Ireland is concerned given that we are a bankrupt nation owing €219B as we do regardless of how the government presents that fact. Once we accept payment for water as it is being proposed it will be used as a lever for household dispossession and clearance. \r\n\r\nRussia's Cold War invasion plan of Europe was simple enough: nuke Germany and drive on through replacing the first set of tank crews, who would die of radiation poisoning en-route, with a second set flown in by helicopter. And so it seems today's financiers and political class have a similar strategy where indebted households are concerned: pile on the pressure to clear mortgaged properties with replacement families who will proceed to pay-off the debt or face dispossession in turn. The state taking on rehousing and health costs. So water charging is the key to the door of dispossession freeing the market up for the bankers while offering clientele socialists a ready made and compliant addition to the dependent masses. Sure you couldn't have enough social dependency now could you? You have to see how the deal goes down to understand who benefits and why and let's face it water charging is not a real issue for the administrative classes.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile the Greens skulk away in the background having provided the green-washed rational just as they are also doing with respect to carbon taxing. How given that they are even more diminutive than the PDs once were - having no TD's - have they pulled this stunt off and why are Sinn Fein taking their cues from a now defunct Green Party rather than the Socialist Left? Because Gerry, not being fond of experts, and people being predisposed to plagiarism and poaching of policies, preferred to lift 'Greentink', presenting it as their own. As my fellow parishioner and Krishna Consciousness head - Damien Creggan - called today highlighting the topic I thought I best take to my electronic waffling machine for an hour or so and offer prognosis. \r\n\r\nJust to go back to the Rural Group Water Schemes annual allowance of 140M cubed or 140'000litres per rural household. My wife I and, being a two person household, use 70MC approx per annum and so are not charged. Getting rid of the bath - in favour of power showers - dramatically reduces water consumption as does not having a lawn - and we have neither. The scheme is of course a rural resource cooperative and as such our connection fee of €2'000 converted to 2'000 shares which entitles us to attend, vote and seek nomination at AGM. There is a derisory charge of €1.66 percubic meter above the 140M allowance. In an urban context that could easily be €10 per cubic meter given a generous universal household allowance of 140M. It seems Cromwellian to be basing charges on the kind of household occupancy survey which has been advanced in Ireland. Far simpler to have a generous universal household allowance and to surcharge excessive usage which will typically arise from households having baths, jacuzzi and watering lawns. Where it dose arise from large family units - whatever the internal makeup - a case by case subvention ought be allowed for rather than the rather ridiculous €100/household provision Joan Burton (TD) has just flung out as an opportunistic constituency cradling device. \r\n\r\nAs to why this approach to charging could not be tunk-though by the heads that do be employed to tunk-through such thoughts well it proposes costs being transferred up the line rather than downwards onto the household base. Even more sinister is the fact that the bankers - and our debt managers in Germany - are essentially intent on pushing Irish people into social housing using charges as a device to tip households into insolvency emboldening the ever greedy resurgent landlord class. As for leaks this really comes down to the point at which the meter is placed. In a rural setting we're sort of stuck with a drop in water pressure being the only way of guessing if there is a leak between the meter and the house; and with hundreds of meters of piping than can amount to quite a problem both in terms of locating the leaks, digging down to and replacing the pipe. In an urban setting however there is no reason the meter should not be installed under the kitchen sink ensuring the householder need only take responsibility for leaks within the home. \r\n\r\nSo am I being overly simplistic here or is it just a case of plain, non-partisan, pragmatic thinking being the answer? I sense the latter is the case but in a world which seems to want to reboot itself on the principle of 'Going along to get along', which gave us the 'Boom, crash, bash', experience we appear to be backing failed form all over again. Apart from the 15 articles in the Sunday Indo concerning the", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 2, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mprx/0_1C0R3cOKwUFuN7nUlLpk3vDxdY8yq7cUA5Ik3Nah94NuIIhRxkfc7qsaFPh_Be9B-TjLa1KroR7a", "profileURL": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvcassidy", "name": "Paul V. 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The idea that everybody be given an allotment of basic necessities water, healthcare, with a fee over a only for over-use beyond a limit, is simply far, far too \"socialistic\" for the USA.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/112515477164078399754", "name": "pjd412 .", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "1d748d91e28c49efb7551f174efe38b9", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "89258edfb17c4cc69b6a4dcfc8145888", "threadID": "5aa86528adb24aadbb33d622a8f5d3db", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "As someone who has been going through a similar problem in another US city for almost a year, with a small child at home as well, I too have advocated a \"water allowance\" and that it be based on the dwelling's legal occupancy (2 adults per bedroom, plus 1 child under the age of 5 for the house) and that it be paid for using already-collected property taxes. And, I agree, it has been received by my more conservative friends as \"socialist\" and therefore bad, regardless of the good it would do especially for people of lower income like myself. What is going on in Detroit, though, has for years been a harbinger of things to come as more and more Americans fall below the poverty line. It is a humanitarian crisis like we haven't seen in this country in almost 100 years and, frankly, one which should have been solved long before it ever reached the point of notoriety on the international stage.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/103607511539264532505", "name": "Frank Dixon", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414628622623, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414167317418, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414005410516, "threadTimestamp": 1414005410516, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "3a4d1461eaba4faf9f7a8d7ea1c4f47e", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Detroit's water problem is symptomatic of a much greater dilemma, namely, loosely regulated, free-market Capitalism. By design, the wealthy enjoy increases in their lot while the poor suffer continual decreases, which is to say that the chasm must widen or Capitalism will wither and die. It is an inherently flawed system. And here is the saddest thing of all; it consists of a middle class which is comprised primarily of flag-waving farm animals who defend the virtues of the very system that exploits them. In fact, they are the most exploited of all and they are pitifully clueless about it. ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 3, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/112936025036354177174", "name": "Rod Pruitt", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "b8b7411919b849dea21b403cd90f1578", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "3a4d1461eaba4faf9f7a8d7ea1c4f47e", "threadID": "3a4d1461eaba4faf9f7a8d7ea1c4f47e", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Rather than knock a system that has worked quite well (not perfect) for over two hundred years please tell us another method that has worked better for two hundred years.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qY9G6xYA4LE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAACg/yfD2to6IVJw/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/100293285596171555491", "name": "John Rucinski", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "0b9cc1fac7f1446b8fd5a2a39058567d", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "b8b7411919b849dea21b403cd90f1578", "threadID": "3a4d1461eaba4faf9f7a8d7ea1c4f47e", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "The sustainable hunter-gatherer systems of the last 10,000 years have never threatened all life on planet earth with extinction and generally members of these systems have access to clean water. 200 years is a drop in the bucket of human history yet we've managed to do more damage to this planet in that time than in all the rest of human history put together.", "TotalVotes": 3, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/116091853886466656650", "name": "Felipe Ravono", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414114509056, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "3c719010e48d488a813f1c8792634d35", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "b8b7411919b849dea21b403cd90f1578", "threadID": "3a4d1461eaba4faf9f7a8d7ea1c4f47e", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "It has not worked well at all - rewarding only ruthlessness and hunger for power rather than talent and creativity, capitalism at a minimum represents an enormous waste of the potential of the vast majority of humanity who must sell their labor in order to survive - in a race to the bottom for the lowest price to submit themselves to servile relationship to a boss. There are plenty of alternatives available, but they get crushed - usually violently - by the interests whose power depends in perpetuating the myth that capitalism.", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/112515477164078399754", "name": "pjd412 .", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414165807096, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414011861532, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413997296760, "threadTimestamp": 1413997296760, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "fc657a15b428496c86cb28c94a5a84e0", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Welcome to Capitalist society. I wonder why such capitalist theories are not implemented when banking crisis struck.\r\n", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 2, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/100828150250547054685", "name": "Ahmed Javed", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "5b9b95d21331409c9fdfe37270be9ad5", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "fc657a15b428496c86cb28c94a5a84e0", "threadID": "fc657a15b428496c86cb28c94a5a84e0", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Capitalism? USA is no capitalist country. A State sustained \"economy\" (banksters and big corp) and a Justice that only works against the poor and ALWAYS forgive the rich. This is no Capitalism, is Communism of the rich, a ponzi Democracy whose purpose is to keep up, up, and way, the \"good times\" for Wall Street.", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/429541373704822785/irQ5Wf05_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/Zero_Asset", "name": "Zero_Asset", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "a31954ecc5c04e72a7c483567e6b29fe", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "5b9b95d21331409c9fdfe37270be9ad5", "threadID": "fc657a15b428496c86cb28c94a5a84e0", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Absolutely true. Despite all the noise that media spin doctors made for \"Obamacare\" as socialist medicine, one could make an easy case that USA is neither a capitalist country nor a democracy. \r\n\r\nWe aren't really a democracy in the sense that corporations are legally considered \"people\" & are given the ability to steer political processes through campaign donations at an equal or greater level than actual human people. Given the Occupy Movement's ability to mobilize millions & the total lack of government actions to hold criminal bankers responsible for fraudulent loans, even giving them even more money for bonuses after looting the nation's wealth, i'd say we live in an plutocracy not democracy.\r\n\r\nWe aren't really capitalist either, as capitalism entails private ownership & management of the economy with no state regulations being placed on a \"free market\". Socialism implies the state regulating activities to assert common ownership & management of the economy. We have 2 economic systems in this country: socialism for the rich & capitalism for everyone else. The rich/corporations collectively own & manage the state, pay little to no taxes while getting a lot of social welfare. The rest of us are expected to compete equally in the \"free\" market while burdened by paying for the privileges of elites. Just googling \"top corporations who pay no taxes show how many giants pay nothing. Those major corporations who do pay tax don't really pay much more than your average american and the average american will never be propped up as being too big to fail.", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dY0yeiOGj-0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAACM/p-o5Zx9-EAc/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/102556686788332270845", "name": "Joseph Greenman", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414087922486, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413995736992, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413983981278, "threadTimestamp": 1413983981278, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "a6ed5fdbe82a4e68bed06098e3fef360", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "It is illegal to cut off water supplies to families in the UK on public health grounds. After all public health affects us all - rich and poor alike. Any attempt by water companies to change this law will be furiously resisted.", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/100002736496387/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/anna.campbell.3998", "name": "Anna Campbell", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "7f1a3c64a47840019344f2350521f6e6", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "a6ed5fdbe82a4e68bed06098e3fef360", "threadID": "a6ed5fdbe82a4e68bed06098e3fef360", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Exacty. But not that the term \"public\" health has the word \"public\" in it. In the USA, public = \"socialism\" and must not be allowed.", "TotalVotes": 3, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/112515477164078399754", "name": "pjd412 .", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414166008119, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413981616273, "threadTimestamp": 1413981616273, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "911d154dbe1f49d1bcd06532b5e11ec9", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Republicans probably say that what the City id doing is correct i.e. no handouts! They however were first in line to approve handouts to \"too big to fail banks\". The difference? The rich corporates receive handouts but poor citizens should not. This is nothing but a class war! Republicans need to come to party! ", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/1180966486/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1180966486", "name": "Ron Olivier", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413981520203, "threadTimestamp": 1413981520203, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "6d904f06a4dd4e30822d2c63376d1e13", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "This is not the WHOLE or TRUE story (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/motowns-road-to-ruin/story-e6frezz0-1226426121204), these people are in the position they are in for the same reason the city is BANKRUPTCY...CASINOS and other bad CHOICES. Detroit decided to get 3 casinos in mid 90's- I led the fight against them because it was a pure out scam. Detroit has shipped $18 billion to Las Vegas, NYC hedge funds, and OHIO since the casinos opened. Of course legitimate businesses were ran out due to crime and people wasting all of their money on gambling instead of retail and paying their bills. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDetroit sold the 3 casino licenses for $25,000 each-although an independent tax payer group cited that they were worth $500 million each. Detroit signed a profit-sharing deal with the casinos in which Detroit agreed to give away 90% of the money LITERALLY. And the CITY of DETROIT lawyer and Mayor that drew up this deal..they NOW WORK FOR THE CASINOS. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDon't feel sorry for these people they bet on the wrong people with the wrong plans. In other words they bet on the Smith-Corona typewriter company against Apple, Google, and Microsoft. They gave their money to Bernie Madoff instead of Warren Buffett.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIT'S CALL COMEUPPANCE.\r\n", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/100008101327279/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/100modelsinc", "name": "Max Moran", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "123396489596413e9fe87591e0a06382", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "6d904f06a4dd4e30822d2c63376d1e13", "threadID": "6d904f06a4dd4e30822d2c63376d1e13", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I agree with you 100%... well said!\r\n", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/1727697992/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/jan.albicki", "name": "Jan Albicki", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414277188725, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413950851058, "threadTimestamp": 1413950851058, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "73834fb5015a43eaa8152b3ab06df44e", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Capitalism - ya loving it yet?", "TotalVotes": 3, "posVotes": 4, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cm8WwZ1CooQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAGw/7fX4dkpVHNI/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/112558357725991758991", "name": "Abinico Arts", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413929453900, "threadTimestamp": 1413929453900, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "808c17709f60446089c3a9a146ab5449", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "First of all, purifying and delivering water costs money and consumers pay for the amount they use. The first line of defense should be to conserve as much as possible to reduce the bill. If the user doesn't pay, who will?\r\n\r\nFurthermore, this is not as horrible as some would like to make it. Water is available from numerous sources\r\nincluding public buildings, neighbors, friends and family. Inconvenience would be a more appropriate word until\r\nthey are able to pay their bill. \r\n\r\n\r\n", "TotalVotes": -3, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 4, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 4, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qY9G6xYA4LE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAACg/yfD2to6IVJw/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/100293285596171555491", "name": "John Rucinski", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "d033fd48d6ca42dfa0d363380e6cadcc", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "808c17709f60446089c3a9a146ab5449", "threadID": "808c17709f60446089c3a9a146ab5449", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Yeah, cook that frog! Make people who has nothing to do with acts of crooks pay the bill and suffer the consequences. All the while, the crooks who caused it are getting QE, bonus, off shore tax deals and pardon for any fraud they commit, or a very small fine. Good times are here! Long live the Communist State of America!", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/429541373704822785/irQ5Wf05_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/Zero_Asset", "name": "Zero_Asset", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "9fc3f5de388945e9aaa882953d14826c", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "d033fd48d6ca42dfa0d363380e6cadcc", "threadID": "808c17709f60446089c3a9a146ab5449", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Paying water bills does not have anything to do with crooks, bankruptcy, tax deals or anything else that you wrote. I'll explain: You want a shirt from a store, you pay for it. You fill your car with gasoline, you pay for it. You want purified water piped to your home, you pay for it. The concept is quite simple to understand.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qY9G6xYA4LE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAACg/yfD2to6IVJw/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/100293285596171555491", "name": "John Rucinski", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "ea4c287fa81e4b4fb07e0a832fd5bf00", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "9fc3f5de388945e9aaa882953d14826c", "threadID": "808c17709f60446089c3a9a146ab5449", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Hmmm, maybe you are one of those at the \"good times\" end, so let me explain: if you want to fill you car with oil, you should pay for the oil ONLY. You should NOT pay for the oil AND for the bail out of the oil company AND for the wars of oil AND for the QE to keep the \"good times\" for the oil company CEOs AND for the bad bets Wall Street crooks put on the oil company AND for the bail out to cover those bets AND for State administrators actions in name of oil company lobby AND bankrupcy of PRIVATE \"emnerprises\" who \"manage\" the funds of the oil company, etc, etc, etc. It's quite simple.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/429541373704822785/irQ5Wf05_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/Zero_Asset", "name": "Zero_Asset", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414054647546, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "826dfb3cd6b5487f80b0e07b23b31178", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "9fc3f5de388945e9aaa882953d14826c", "threadID": "808c17709f60446089c3a9a146ab5449", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Shirts & driving cars are not necessary to sustain life. Clean water is. Would you apply the same \"user pays\" philosophy to air? To light? To sunshine?", "TotalVotes": 3, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/116091853886466656650", "name": "Felipe Ravono", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414114839629, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414011456918, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413996057284, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413920291143, "threadTimestamp": 1413920291143, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "805bb9b9e2054b5d9143effbb34f5e0d", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "It's 2014 and access to water *isn't* a basic human right?", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XXt-OZ-Otcg/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAkY/2a_MDJ0J3j4/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/101755724820645786353", "name": "Kamren Hatfield", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413900710476, "threadTimestamp": 1413900710476, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "2a9b651644f1428db6c76b22a81bf4d5", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Whats the real plan, Delta City? It seems Detroit has become a prison camp, no longer a City by definition. Where else have we seen \"Work will set you free\" written. An american City now in violation of international human rights law is no longer a City or American. How long before the City restricts food distribution centers to control access to food. I think they do that in North Korean prison camps. \n Whom is this shut off contractor, a company reaping profit in violation of international law? Is that legal?", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XdUIqdMkCWA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/4252rscbv5M/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/109909610464926682501", "name": "Alan Szabo", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413881860010, "threadTimestamp": 1413881860010, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "ec4b6046ffa8422fa8c584f7acceb7c4", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "This comment has been deleted", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 2, "sender": { "name": "[removed]", "isSelf": false }, "flagCount": 0, "moderatorEdit": false, "replies": [ { "ID": "f824c744e6d74ae899744659b7d07c7c", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "ec4b6046ffa8422fa8c584f7acceb7c4", "threadID": "ec4b6046ffa8422fa8c584f7acceb7c4", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Yeah good luck with the Ohio idea, that will never happen. While I feel for these people, it is the state's responsibility to provide for their citizens. ", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/685672143/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/joegingrich", "name": "Joe Gingrich", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "f2ddedc506794deba076e578d4d4690d", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "f824c744e6d74ae899744659b7d07c7c", "threadID": "ec4b6046ffa8422fa8c584f7acceb7c4", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "The State self is against their citizens... a dictatorship, of sorts.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/429541373704822785/irQ5Wf05_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/Zero_Asset", "name": "Zero_Asset", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413996160405, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413918678881, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413862594024, "threadTimestamp": 1413862594024, "status": "rejected" }, { "ID": "9bae099dbdff4c43afcf8cd5137a05a1", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "This comment has been deleted", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 4, "sender": { "name": "[removed]", "isSelf": false }, "flagCount": 0, "moderatorEdit": false, "replies": [ { "ID": "197e04d3904f434d95026165f8bf6636", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "9bae099dbdff4c43afcf8cd5137a05a1", "threadID": "9bae099dbdff4c43afcf8cd5137a05a1", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "What part of working 2 jobs and making $25,000/per year make you think some of these people are lazy? I used to work 12-16 hours per day 5-6 days per week and I could only afford to eat one meal per day. Just because people are in want doesn't mean that they are lazy.", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/84400796/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/adrianna.connor.7", "name": "Adrianna Connor", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "3bc972ddccd049d3bda436e2115dd6ef", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "197e04d3904f434d95026165f8bf6636", "threadID": "9bae099dbdff4c43afcf8cd5137a05a1", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Then you should be able to pay your water bill and if not I guess you should have done a better job of preparing for life.", "TotalVotes": -1, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/100000144439909/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/bill.lewis.54584", "name": "Bill Lewis", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "727c3b6e68bb4921a38be5ca728e848a", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "3bc972ddccd049d3bda436e2115dd6ef", "threadID": "9bae099dbdff4c43afcf8cd5137a05a1", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Are you blind or what? Do you really believe in what you said? My friend, I would be upholding your thoughts if the game were fair. But that is the point your missing here. The game is not fair. It has been designed and updated everyday to favor few at the expenses of many! Don't you find strange that investment banks, the whole financial market, insurance companies, the military contractors, etc, etc, all those guys get easy money from our government? Money that comes from our taxes? But, at the same time, politicians, businessmen, corporate media say that there is lack of money to education, hospitals, social security, etc, etc. Again, don't judge thousands of people so quickly. Be wise, and think hard through the whole situation and we will see that the game is rotten. Don't hate the people, hate the game!!!", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/100000826473670/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/ericson.amaral", "name": "Ericson Amaral", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414029369272, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "a9e704d8dcc44da6a02f13545c7baa86", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "3bc972ddccd049d3bda436e2115dd6ef", "threadID": "9bae099dbdff4c43afcf8cd5137a05a1", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Yeah, she should be a Wall Street crook. THEN she could get EVERYTHING for free and still be named a \"hard worker\".", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/429541373704822785/irQ5Wf05_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/Zero_Asset", "name": "Zero_Asset", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1414054741957, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413945170008, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413917172907, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413856967501, "threadTimestamp": 1413856967501, "status": "rejected" }, { "ID": "7a99d42400874a8abf8ca34d6af9cc4d", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "The thought of providing water to people that don't pay their bills is absurd. Somebody will pay, if not them, who?", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 1, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-qY9G6xYA4LE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAACg/yfD2to6IVJw/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/100293285596171555491", "name": "John Rucinski", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "7ce37a7795944e56b80ad44f99b3fd0e", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "7a99d42400874a8abf8ca34d6af9cc4d", "threadID": "7a99d42400874a8abf8ca34d6af9cc4d", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Maybe the crooks who bankrupted the city?", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/429541373704822785/irQ5Wf05_normal.jpeg", "profileURL": "http://twitter.com/Zero_Asset", "name": "Zero_Asset", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "twitter" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413996225738, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413854245182, "threadTimestamp": 1413854245182, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "a02846d626f64a2baa1021171d77eff0", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Is this \"real?\"\r\n\r\nAmerican citizens being disconnect from water, because they can't pay the bill?\r\n\r\nIs this \"real?\"\r\n\r\nWhere is city manager, the mayor, the state politicians of this state?\r\nI will subscribe to this story\r\n\r\nIs the slow process of losing everything as terrorism, hate, and political shams\r\nhit Detroit? Never-mind the corruption, and possible take over by the national guard.\r\n\r\nPlease share the full story of Detroit to Americans.\r\n\r\nThis sounds like the city, up to the governor, and beyond,\r\nwants them gone. What's the real plan?\r\n\r\n\r\n", "TotalVotes": 1, "posVotes": 3, "negVotes": 2, "vote": "none", "descendantsCount": 2, "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Yt_4FHhr5MY/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAACc/xLN9gHjghc8/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/101070097254883108107", "name": "Daniel Dixon", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "replies": [ { "ID": "e7711163aa144e51ad03f2dc438b4dfb", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "a02846d626f64a2baa1021171d77eff0", "threadID": "a02846d626f64a2baa1021171d77eff0", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Remember the part when the governor asked the unions to hold off on the pensions and they said no way? Or the part where the city lost almost half its population while the infrastructure to support that other half remained? The issue is, is that the system is failing and the agency is doing what it can to keep it afloat. If they didnt shut off the water, the system would collapse even faster. Water is a human right but purified water costs money and someone has to pay. The feds need to bail them out and make an effort to make the city sustainable again. Detroits been dying and this wont be the first time something like that happens as a consequence.", "TotalVotes": 2, "posVotes": 2, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://graph.facebook.com/100005830927023/picture?type=square", "profileURL": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005830927023", "name": "Josh Ryan", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "Facebook" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413863271271, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "181e19ecf748434bb59281f9c05097e7", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "parentID": "a02846d626f64a2baa1021171d77eff0", "threadID": "a02846d626f64a2baa1021171d77eff0", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "I actually think your on to something.. The upper class have already made their own bricked walls to keep them separated.. I means walls that have cut off streets that are now dead ends..", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 0, "negVotes": 0, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YEqNErvAM98/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABw/ottr2Py8aOQ/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/104461988174204055732", "name": "gerri cheatham", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413871245573, "threadTimestamp": 0, "status": "published" } ], "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413850248172, "threadTimestamp": 1413850248172, "status": "published" }, { "ID": "41d1c369f9a24a7aa0350459d8fc74d8", "streamId": "8155ccbf-f308-4c25-bc9f-51e2616121ee1413754563993", "threadID": "", "isModerator": false, "commentText": "Sad to think of Children without water!!! Nice to here the community is getting together to help!!", "TotalVotes": 0, "posVotes": 1, "negVotes": 1, "vote": "none", "sender": { "photoURL": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YhFHkzemevI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAABw/W8B-nxAIjr8/photo.jpg?sz=50", "profileURL": "https://plus.google.com/116006459388698160766", "name": "Fernando P", "isSelf": false, "loginProvider": "GooglePlus" }, "flagCount": 0, "highlightGroups": [], "edited": false, "timestamp": 1413849115378, "threadTimestamp": 1413849115378, "status": "published" } ], "commentCount": 54, "next": "ts_1413849115378", "nextTS": 1413849115378, "hasMore": true, "statusCode": 200, "errorCode": 0, "statusReason": "OK", "callId": "55d9a74e87734b8a92cd8003319acead", "time": "2016-04-25T18:25:56.246Z", "context": "R780904466" });