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Quasar FunkHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:02am
Here’s some more despicable thoughts from sub-human filth Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the Nestle CEO who favors privatization of water and says that access to water is not a human right.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-privatisat…
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  XrdsAlumQuasar Funk
  3/22/16 10:21am
  Fun fact: the wife of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s chief of staff is a spokesperson for Nestle, which also happens to be the state’s largest owner of private water sources.
  
  Americans who think disaster capitalism is something that can only take place in third world nations are going to be in for a big surprise.
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  anniegawker2-electricboogalooXrdsAlum
  3/22/16 10:36am
  Fun Fact 2: Electric Boogaloo: Nastle sends people to developing nations and tells mothers how awful breastfeeding is, and how they must buy baby formula. Baby formula made by Nestle brands of course.
  
  btw-I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using formula, and in some cases it is better, but Nestle claims that it’s the only way to have a healthy baby.
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toothpetardHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:05am
Delivering clean water to all citizens is a great example of the usefulness of government development funded by tax dollars that benefits everyone.

But what about our meritocracy?!
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  Quasar Funktoothpetard
  3/22/16 10:07am
  
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  Will Holztoothpetard
  3/22/16 10:19am
  But what about our meritocracy?!
  
  *compares the top .1% to an average nurse*
  
  It’d be neat if we defined ‘merit’ as ‘value to society’ rather than ‘ability to be sociopathic enough to care more about wealth than the people who actually are awesome and useful’, wouldn’t it?
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Richard M TysonHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:29am
I have lived in a country that does not have accessible water for everyone. I have seen rivers turned black with pollution while the rich in the country turn their backs. I can see it happening here as well. It starts with the rich ignoring water taxes and ends with the poor suffering. It is not pretty. It looks like babies on the side of the road, resting naked on newspapers, while fortunate people drive by in brand new cars drinking bottled water. It looks like the Bagmati river turning from clear to black as people die on the river banks due to dehydration. This could be the Mississippi river, the Columbia river, or any river near you. But please, continue not to vote, and just sit there and play your fucking xbox and watch your tv.
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  AK7007Richard M Tyson
  3/22/16 11:14am
  Counterpoint: rich people penalize poor people for voting. Try being a brown or black person working a minimum wage job and somehow getting time off to get to a polling station in one of our wonderful republican controlled shitholes that only allows voting during a narrow window overlapping with work hours. Or charges a poll tax in the form of a drivers licence. Or a million other types of fuckery.
  
  Yes, some people are too lazy. For the rest that care, the rich have ways of punishing you for even trying to change your situation.
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  Richard M TysonAK7007
  3/22/16 11:18am
  absolutely correct. Though it doesn’t get limited to brown skinned people. Poor is poor and I work a less than $15/hr job as well. Voter suppression is brutal.
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ReburnsABurningReturnsHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:09am
Delivering clean water to all citizens is a great example of the usefulness of government development funded by tax dollars that benefits everyone.

Well, I mean, that’s true when the U.S. has problems delivering clean water en masse.

But countries like Mozambique and Papua New Guinea have fundamentally different problems than Flint does.
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  kareemaReburnsABurningReturns
  3/22/16 10:31am
  So? What’s your point?
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  ReburnsABurningReturnskareema
  3/22/16 10:34am
  The point is that a study that expounds on problems in Mozambique and Papua New Guinea doesn’t exactly give us much of a road map for really, much of anything in the U.S. There’s some interesting stuff in it, to be sure, but not a lot.
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Sid and FinancyHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:14am
That’s nothing. Do you have any idea what I had to pay for two bottles of Roederer last night?
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  DolemiteSid and Financy
  3/22/16 10:33am
  I don’t know what that is, but I just filled up my 32 oz water bottle in the break room for $0.00.
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  foolery85032Dolemite
  3/22/16 10:38am
  Unless you pissed in the bottle, someone paid for that water.
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Ed SpockHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 9:59am
If you want free municipal water move to Flint. They’re currently not charging anything for it!!!!

There is a small catch though.
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  iiviEd Spock
  3/22/16 10:03am
  Except they are!
  
  http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc…
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  Ed Spockiivi
  3/22/16 10:09am
  My bad. Oh well.
  
  We can’t have people believing that if the government fucks up and poisons them for life, and then tries to cover it up for 18 months, they’re going to get some kind of break with free water.
  
  Business is business after all. It’s that attitude espoused by Rick Snyder that has made Michigan the state it is today!
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jambergHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:01am
“no but hamilton private companies can provide water at even chea-”[reads article closer]
[furrows brow]
[nudges article into “biased liberal media” corner with foot]
[releases war mongering statement about Brussels]
-Ted Cruz’s morning
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  opiumsmabytchjamberg
  3/22/16 11:17am
  [nudges article into “biased liberal media” corner with foot]
  
  Must be a big pile in that corner
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Misteaks were madeHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:02am
It’s cheap because we have paid for infrastructure and paid for ability to clean up our water. The amortization happened decades ago. It’s expensive where it has to be trucked/carried everywhere from a “clean” source. That makes perfect sense really. When those first two things happen, it will be cheap too.

Now please point out why I’m supposed to fell bad about cheap water again?
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CleverUsernameHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:09am
Clean, affordable water is for boot-strappers. You do have boots, right?
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TheRainInSpain'sTherapistHamilton Nolan
3/22/16 10:05am
“Poor people get stiffed again. Film at 11:00.”
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