Thursday, October 01, 2009

Death in "Progress" City

From the motor city of Detroit, who hasn't had a conservative run the city since Henry Ford rolled the first Model T off the assembly line.........

At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.

Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.

Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, said he has never seen anything like it during his 13 years on the job. "Some people don't come forward even though they know the people are here," said the former Detroit cop. "They don't have the money."

Lifelong Detroit residents Darrell and Cheryl Vickers understand this firsthand. On a chilly September morning they had to visit the freezer to identify the body of Darrell's aunt, Nancy Graham -- and say their goodbyes.

You know what Detroit need? A tax increase. Just ask Gov. Granholm.

What's so "progressive" about piling up dead bodies?

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