Propaganda
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And just for you to get a grasp on how much money can be made by doing this, if you're a company, that company made $2.05 billion in 2023. And essentially, if you're the city, the city runs up, you have all kinds of problems. You got people not paying bills on time. You got all these different, you know, all this stuff. You got to hire the workers. You got to do all this stuff.
And this company runs up and was like, yo, we'll take all this off your hands. Not only will we take it off your hands, we'll pay you for it. So to the city, and they saying, look, I do a better job than y'all do. Why? Because this is all we do. You got all this other stuff you got to take care of. We're going to only take care of the water. Look, we'll give you $30 million for it.
That's free money. And you ain't got to worry about it. All you got to do when people call complaining about their water is just say, please hold and transfer it to us. You ain't got nothing to worry about. And the city say, okay, that sounds good. Now, are you going to change your prices? It's like, why would we change our prices? We don't need to change our price.
Matter of fact, we could probably charge less because we ain't got the same things y'all got. Well, at least for the first few years, kind of like the phone bill when they like, oh, you sign up for this much money a month for the first three months or your cable for the first two years. And then one day your cable bill come in and it's just psycho.
And you like, I don't know why the hell this costs so much more. And they're like, oh yeah, the contract was for this long. And then after that, It went back to regular price. That's essentially what's happening. That's why I was like, if your water bill go crazy, who you going to call? Like, what are you going to say? Like, uh, they could just be like, yeah, it just costs more now.
So for the city, the city is like, look, it's free money. We could put this money into other stuff we've been trying to work on and y'all going to get a better situation. And again, no one looks at the logo on their bill. So the utilities industries, right, a few years ago, I think in 2016, got this law passed that made cities want to sell it. It's called the Fair Market Value Laws.
One example is in Pennsylvania was Act 12, which was in 2016. And- The concern is cities feel like they can't keep up with environmental laws and keep up with city growth. Cities are growing so fast. So many people are moving in. We're destroying the earth at a particular exponential rate. And the government wants us to not destroy the planet. Oh, hum. So I got all these laws. I got it.
We just have the money for it. He doesn't have the money for it. He doesn't have the time. So, when you're evaluating how much this utility would be worth, you can include, because of Act 12 in Pennsylvania, the median income, the expected repairs, and future revenue, which means it makes that water worth way much more, right? And a lot of times, when you're selling this utility,
The price tag, what these people be paying you, be six times the city's budget. So think about this. I'm just trying to make this real for you. Let's just say somebody comes in and says, I'll buy your car. You say word for how much. And they say, I tell you what, I'll pay you your year's salary for this car. The fam.
you gonna add i add another car in there for that you know i'm saying hey you know throwing throwing another six months worth of salary i'll make you some dinner like it's it's kind of a no-brainer you like you our entire year's budget just for the water no-brainer but who pays the company
What do I mean by that? The company cuts the city a check. Now the company got to make their money back. How they make their money back? Nigga, your bills. What is you like? What is you saying? Of course, they're going to make their money back.
Now, again, they're incentivized to make that money back as fast as possible, which means they're not going to spend more than they had already spent 30 million dollars to get the thing. But then they'll promise to like fix their systems. They're promised like you sold the city saying, I'm going to be able to spend some time to upgrade and do all this difference.
And they don't ever upgrade nothing because it's kind of a no brainer. This is easy money to them. In Philly, there's this area called the Chester Water Authority that went straight up bankrupt. So like the city's water authority just went bankrupt. So they was like, yo, we got to sell it. They got offered $410 million. Well, the city did.
And the city says, nigga, Chester Water Authority, you ain't got the right to sell because you are not a company. You are part of the city of Philadelphia. Chester Water Authority is like, my G. I mean, what the hell you want us to do? How does this stuff become legal? Well, like same way any other stick come legal. They just you lobby candidates all the time.
And the only way to stop this is you got to sign up to some sort of city council newsletter or something to be able to walk up in there and protest the shit. Nigga, good luck. Now, let's talk about specifically California. All right. I bring up specifically California because of all this stuff about the fire hydrants and water issues that we had recently.
Remember that the water that waters Los Angeles comes from the north. It comes from right up under Sacramento through the California aqueduct that was put together by this man named Mulholland. So the Mulholland Pass, Mulholland Drive, that was all based on this man that made Los Angeles be possible because he just went up there just like any other colonizer and was like, I'll buy your water.
And they was like, water ain't for sale. He was like, yeah, it is. And went over their heads and bought the water. Built a hole, basically like when you was a kid at the beach and you dig a little thing in the sand to make the water go a certain way. That's basically what he did through the middle of California to bring water to Los Angeles. Now, Los Angeles did have one river.
That was the San Gabriel River.
that starts in the top of the san gabriel foothills and comes into what we call the la river which is paved which there is a movement to unpave that because that would probably help us with a lot of climate issues but either way that was an actual river it was enough to support the native tribes here because it wasn't that many people here and they had sense enough to not plant plants that need the water that they ain't got they wasn't trying to build a city in the area that ain't supposed to be a city nigga have you ever been to las vegas
There should not be a city there. Y'all ever been to the Inland Empire? There should not be that many humans there, according to the Earth, unless you pump water over there. The natives were fine. The indigenous communities figured out how to live in the shit for thousands of years. But, uh, you know. We had to do our thing. Now, some vocabulary.
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