Timothy Birdnow

There were 16 water main breaks in the City of St. Louis over the weekend. This was not a very cold or very hot weekend. So what gives?

Well, the St. Louis Board of Alderman were debating a bill for a major increase in pricing for water from the city. And SHAZAM! a bunch of mains blew.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Water is one of the few things the city actually does well. The water is pretty cheap, and it's dependable, and they have "flat rate" which means a resident does not have a water meter but gets a standard bill. That's nice; it means in dry summers the lawns remain well-watered.

St. Louis draws its water from the Mississippi River. It has one of the world's best treatment plants as a result. It is so good because Anheuser Busch is one of the city's biggest employers and they demand water they can use for brewing without major treatment. They just run city water straight into the brew kettles.

So we have some excellent water here, and it's cheap. Or used to be.

The alderman want to raise the price of water a whopping 44%.

So when a rash of main breaks occur all at once just before the vote my b.s. radar goes off.

And yet it doesn't for local media. No suggestion from them that this is suspicious.

The Democrats have driven St. Louis into the ground. The population of St. Louis has dropped to 296,262, a growth rate of .-0.59%. in the past year. This while the metropolitan area has grown by 0.41% to 2,230,000. So the area is growing the city shrinking.

In 2010 St. Louis had a population of 319,367. So St. Louis has lost almost a hundred thousand people in 13 years.

In 1950 St. Louis had a population of 856,796. 1948 was the last year St. Louis had a Republican mayor. It's been a steady decline all these years.

Why? Kim Gardner and the Defund the Police movement played no small part. So too has the radical administration of Tishuara Jones, whose father went to prison for corruption in city politics decades ago.

Also don't foreget the board of alderman saw a number of members sent to prison for corruption recently, including the Aldermanic President Lou Reed.

So I wouldn't put it past the city to sabotage it's own infrastructure for more money.

But what will this do? Democrats think rasing taxes raises revenue. No, what this will do is encourage more people to leave St. Louis for greener pastures. This will only hasten the demise of a once great city.

Now it's just a matter of squeezing what they can get out of the taxpayers.

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