another wacky leftist piling on

[sisyphusshrugged]

from the Times story about dealing with the dead after Katrina

A full week after the hurricane, as the colossal forensic challenge before them came more clearly into focus, various government officials struggled with an awkward but unavoidable question: Who is going to pick up the bodies?

Federal and state officials quarreled with one another over who had responsibility for collection: The Federal Emergency Management Agency? Louisiana? The National Guard? Meanwhile, dead Americans decomposed on American soil.

“We’d ask, ‘So who’s going to pick up the bodies?’ ” Dr. Cataldie recalled. “And everybody would look at each other.”

The task finally fell to Kenyon International Emergency Services, a disaster-relief company that was eventually hired by the state. Its president, Robert Jensen, said recently that he had been taken aback by the bureaucratic dithering over such a sensitive and obvious mission.

“Civilizations are often judged by how they treat their deceased,” Mr. Jensen said. In the case of the Louisiana dead, he added, “the system failed.”

Easy for him to say. What has George W. Bush ever done for Kenyon International?

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[(Anonymous)]

Every situation is a privatization laboratory for them. Dire or mundane. Like the Soviet Union, they can't believe their ideology isn't working yet, so they feel the need to test it.