From the Washington Post:
“The stench was horrific,” Federici, 53, said about the cooler. “Bodies were laying buck naked all over the place. There was no dignity whatsoever. It was disgusting, degrading and humiliating…”What was supposed to be a dignified end to thousands of lives had instead deteriorated into a haphazard operation, Napper said, more about money than honoring the dead. Part of the largest funeral services conglomerate in the world — Houston-based Service Corporation International — the company did not want to spend money to address the issues, Napper said supervisors told him.
Adminstration officials said nothing could be done about the situation, unfortunately, as the bank was too big to fail.
Any incompetent lawyer fresh out of law school ought to be able to solve this problem. A dull hatchet can usually solve the problem. Not always, but it would be a good start.
Posted by: Buck on April 5, 2009 12:44 PMWhy not let the Department of Agriculture buy the corpses at inflated prices and then sell them for less to Cargill and Monsanto who could jack the price right back up and then some, and sell the toxic assets to farmers as fertilizer, pocketing the difference. That would be so complicated and improbable that the taxpayers would never be able to figure out what the hell happened.
Posted by: Phillyboy on April 5, 2009 3:21 PMSoylent Green already refined that concept Phillyboy. Frank Rich recommended a guillotine in this morning's column, but a nice hatchet to cut out the fat in the board room and to deal with the the CEO and his entourage would work wonders in solving this problem.
Posted by: Buck on April 5, 2009 5:20 PMIn South Carolina a man's legs were cut off so that the body would fit in the casket. The widow later settled with the funeral home. If criminal charges are brought against the individual funeral owner, how would the same standard be applied to the corporation? Do we have a double standard in this country, with corporations getting a free pass while ordinary folks just get justice, if that's what it is? See:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/04/met_517182.shtml
Posted by: Buck on April 5, 2009 6:00 PM