Last night around 7pm we lost our water. I called the Public Works Department and was informed that the high winds that had been blowing all day had knocked out the power lines for the pumping station that supplies water for my area. I thought it strange that they did not have a back up gas or diesel generator and it is something I will look into. We went to the a grocery store that was still opened and with several others bought water to take home, because no one was offering a time when the station would be pumping. Around 1am the power was restored and the water is once again flowing.
As is so often the case, it is not until you are missing something that you realize how accustomed you are to having it every day of your life. Electricity, running water, sewage control. trash collection, all things the majority of us take for granted and when we lose them we go into a panic.
I wonder what it is like for those in the United States who do not have those "necessities" on a regular basis. I am not talking about people who have been cut off due to not paying their bills, I am talking about those in remote areas, Indian Reservations, and slum tenements who are ignored by society and the government in general.
President-elect Obama should make one of his priorities to insure that all Americans have access to the "necessities". Plans need to be developed to assist those who currently are facing financial difficulties in paying their bills. Availability to all the "necessities" should be a priority. After all in important areas such as this, all Americans have the right to be treated equally.
No one should be deprived of the basic "necessities". They are very persons' right in a nation that is supposedly the leader of the world. Equal rights for all, and it needs to start here at home.
Its Common Sense!
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