Due to the severe water problem in Detroit, where the city threatens to cut off water to 45,000 people that aren’t paying their bills, non-governmental groups are calling on the UN to intervene in the problem.
It is certainly a tell-tale sign of the times when the US can’t take care of one of its own isn’t it?
Of course, conditions in Detroit are horrific and nobody wants to see families going without water – but take a look at what is happening here. As more cities and states go under when all the paper printing stops working, and it will like it historically always has, will we be calling on the UN for help more and more? Where does that stop? One fears it won’t until dependence upon the UN is achieved.
The United States should be strong enough to take care of its own, should it not? But the fact is that traditionally governmental take overs happen by problems being caused that are so large that people really don’t have a choice but to accept the ‘proposed solution’.
The UN needs to intervene in the affairs of the United States on the level of providing people with water?
If this actually happens and the UN starts ‘coming to our aid’ we will be witnessing the turn of a very dark page. There’s only so many pages in the book – and we are losing time everyday to recover our republic.
As thousands of people in Detroit go without water, and the city moves to cut off services to tens of thousands more, concerned organizations have taken the unusual step of appealing to the United Nations to intervene and protect the “human right to water.”
“After decades of policies that put businesses and profits ahead of the public good, the city now has a major crisis on its hands,” said Maude Barlow, founder of Blue Planet Project and board chair of Food & Water Watch, in a statement. “By denying water service to thousands, Detroit is violating the human right to water.”
The Submission to the Special Rapporteur was released Wednesday by the Detroit People’s Water Board, the Blue Planet Project, the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and Food & Water Watch.
It calls for the “state of Michigan and U.S. government to respect the human right to water and sanitation” and for shut-offs to be halted, services restored, and water to be made accessible and affordable.
The report comes on the heels of the Detroit’s city council’s Tuesday approval of an 8.7 percent increase in water rates, part of a long-standing trend that, according to Food & Water Watch, has seen prices increase 119 percent over the past decade.
This rate hike follows an announcement in March by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department that it would start turning off water for accounts that are past due. According to a late May Director’s Report from the DWSD, there were “44,273 shut-off notices sent to customers in April 2014” alone, resulting in “3,025 shut-offs for nonpayment, and additional collections of $400,000.”
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who was appointed to power by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in March 2013, has aggressively pursued privatization and austerity measures across the city. “Nothing is off the chopping block, including water utilities, which are being considered for regionalization, sale, lease, and/or public private partnership and are currently subject to mediation by a federal district judge,” reads the report.
“The Detroit People’s Water Board fears that authorities see people’s unpaid water bills as a ‘bad debt’ and want to sweeten the pot for a private investor by imposing even more of the costs of the system on those least able to bear them,” the report continues.
Residents say the mass cut-off of this vital service is especially unjust in a city already struggling with high unemployment, a poverty rate near 40 percent, and a foreclosure crisis that has devastated and displaced people across the city, hitting Detroit’s African American community especially hard.
“When delinquent corporate water lines are still running without collection of funds, it demonstrates a level of intentional disparity that devalues the lives of the people struggling financially,” said Lila Cabbil, President Emeritus of the Rosa Parks Institute, which is part of the People’s Water Board. “Where is our compassion? Where is our humanity?”
Most of The Jobs Moved Outside Detroit, Unless the Jobs Come Back, Its Not Going to Get Any Better …
$#%&!@* the un
Once Again, I Don’t Understand the Mentality of Anybody that Thinks When Your Loosing Money, Lets Charge More … It’s Why the U.S. Post Office is Failing, People Don’t Buy News Papers & Magazines Any More, The Housing Market Crashed, Unemployment Rates Went Up, & the Cost of Fuel Raised thee Cost of Everything Else …
And why are we involving the UN? And why are there armored vehicles getting sent into Ga. after the very extreme gun law passed allowing guns to all. Isnt that in our constitution. What do we pay taxes for if a city runs out of water or cuts it off because people cant pay for it aren’t we supposed to have emergency funds for that kind of stuff or have they spent it all and are going to borrow more from china. Going down the pisser; allowing illegals to work and send our hard currency back home, give them free medical care, allow there children to become citizens,, force us to learn Spanish unlike our decedents having to learn English, allowing them to fly their countries flag above ours, taking the debt limit off the government so they can borrow more and increase our national debt beyond the ability to pay it, allowing our currency to get to the point of being declined to a 1 star rating so it will not be the world trading currency any longer and so raising the cost of EVERYTHING at least 40%. Our congress passing laws that they are exempt from and passing laws before they are read. The Obama care law was non existent when it was passed and they are trying to figure out how to do it still. Bad enough that drug addicts get welfare or other assistance when they do nothing but consume and it seems our government is more concerned with gun control and the people depending on the gov. than making massive changes in our fiscal policies that could put more people to work and thus strengthening our economy. We are Americans and if the job is to dig a ditch or build a road then by God that’s what we do! oh I’m sorry
I forgot that the Narcissistic work force we have feels that it is beneath them and so will let the illegals do the work. This country is a laughjing stock and its not gonna get any better. Whatch out for the UN and just see what happens when foreign soldiers start enforcing martial law that the president can enact without reason. Our nat guard is ran by their states and they and our military swear to uphold the constitution and not the president. so will have a hard time shooting tyhier own people but foreign troops especially Islamic troops will not have that problem and so it looks like civil war hell is coming. Wait until its mandatory to be implanted with a chip for medical reasons that will also have all your othe info on it including your gps position. I am getting out of dodge as soon as possible. The unbelievable thing is that it is so obvious to me where our government is taking us but so mmany others are blinded to it walking around staring at their smart phone. The authorities control all communications, food transport and pricing, water transport and pricing so when the communication grid goes down and food and water are with held people will get angry but then it will be too late because they also control the power grid and will just shut it down, It is projected that 90% of Americans will die in one year without power. selling our freedoms a piece at a time for security when a 300.00 12 gauge would secure it very well. we are told that is not only our right but out duty to change the government when it starts getting tyrannical. if you listen to Obamas speeches he is saying exactly that if the people can not care for themselves they must surrender to the tyrant to survive. we are at the end of an age with the USA declining as a national power and the void will be filled by the UN. the books of Daniel and revelations written thousands of years apart speak of these times so, ” be ready to flee to the mountains” I am fleeing to the mountains of central America because this country no longer follows the constitution and is ran by millionaires with no empathy for the citizens. what they do not understand is that it is the people of this country that have made it great in the past, not the government but as Daniel states, This 7th world power are the feet of iron and molded clay, looking strong but not sticking together, this nation is of the seeds of mankind and will not stay together and will fall” revelations states about the kings of the earth, Five have been, one is (roman empire) one more shall be and yet an 8th power encircling the earth shall gain rule but it shall only last for moments.” All is going exactly as it should be and I pray that I might see Michael and His angels warring against the wicked and to see our lord and savior wields the sword of truth and slay the wicked ones. Jesus say’s He will not come in peace but in war and mother will be pitted against daughter son against father brother against siblings etc. There will be earthquakes and volcanoes, calamities, famine and storms like never since the founding of the earth.e’s coming and He is pissed but be glad the Father does not come for His anger would leave us as a tiny dust cloud orbiting the sun so thank God for jesus.
Cut Taxes, Banking Fees, & Find a Cheaper Way to Transport People Goods & Services, So America Can Afford to Look for Jobs & Pay Their Bills, … Stop Throwing More Money at the Problems, It Reducing the Value of the Dollar & It’s Not Helping Anything …
UN stay out of our affairs.
this is what happens when Progressives / liberals have complete control, it all become a big pile of dog c**p.
This administration is willing to do anything to achieve gun control, even make the masses suffer without the necessities of life !!! The UN has no business in this country, a country that can still take care of the rest of the worlds hungry !!! This is a ploy by the current administration and if the people of Detroit elect not to pay their water & sewage would you not agree that their services should be cut off ??? These people need to move out of Detroit to another location more suited for their needs whereas the State needs to pick up the tab !!!
anything but the un. that would be just the excuse they would need to get a foot hold in our country
More of our country will soon be falling into the same devastating downfall that is Detroit. Citizens of America, just continue to sit on your ass, hold out your hands for the government handout, keep voting Democrats into office, and you will certainly see this once great, strong, prosperous country fall to it knees in debt and despair.