On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 1:48:42 PM UTC-4, BigC300 wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:49:28 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >Funny, last time I was in Detroit, it was still a city. And I don't
> >see how it's Communist, either, unless all cities are Communist.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
>
> do you think Detroit is a functional city?

No, it isn't.

> How can a city operate when
> people refuse to pay their water bills? Is it your Consitutional Right
> to receive free water from the city?

People will try to get away with not paying their bills. It
happens everywhere. Detroit, sadly, is so screwed up that they
can get away with it. Nobody in the Detroit city government has
ever thought that people should get water for free. However, they
have been incompetent, and unpaid bills have mounted up to
ridiculous proportions. Where it might have been possible to
get $50/month from people, it's not possible to get $1000 from
someone who hasn't paid their bill in 20 months and is living
on welfare. I deplore people who don't pay their bills, but
it's really just people being people.

> I can guarantee you...it is
> Communist and the United government has placed sanctions on the city
> to curtail further irresponsible stupidity.

Here's the first definition I found when I googled:

Communism:
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

That doesn't apply to Detroit. The vast majority of it is privately
owned. Apart from city-employed workers, Detroiters work for private
companies just like in every other city, or they're on welfare which
is state and federal, not a city service.

"screwed up" does not equal "communist"

I feel sorry for the stupid Detroiters who voted those morons in
year after year. They certainly are responsible for the outcome,
even if they don't own up to it. But I still feel sorrow.

I was born in Detroit, and what the city has become is really sad.
Nobody has the political will to do what needs to be done; some of
it would be public relations suicide.

Cindy Hamilton