NC Sez: The government is seeing dead people everywhere.
Which one you want? The Government will Pay for it!
Apparently, because of how prosperous the Obama economy has lifted people up out of their poverty, there is an increase for tax payer money for Cash for Caskets. People are wanting cash to bury their dead, sort of like cash for clunkers, the kids in the nanny state, want cash for caskets.
“People just aren’t in a position to pay $7,000 for a private funeral and burial,” says Lt. David Smith of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, where the number of people seeking county burial has nearly doubled since last year.
Stats from a USA Today article states:
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office handled a 97% increase of indigent deaths from January to June ‘09.
“It has put a major financial strain on this department,” Smith says. “I need to come up with $12,000 a month in a budget that’s locked up tight as a drum.”
Last February, the county coroner was notified that the crematory was “overflowing with natural death cases and couldn’t handle cases from the coroner, who handles accidental deaths, homicides and unidentified people,”
Las Vegas is reporting a surge in indigent cremations and burials this year causing capacity issues as well as reports from Kenton County, Ky expecting a “record year of indigent burials,” USA reports.
Here’s the obvious bottom: if Counties are having financial problems burying their dead, in this Great Recession, how will Counties across this country tolerate the kids needing mass health care since the kids are reaching retirement age?
Once again another example of a stunning and well-oiled government run service . Oh, I just can’t wait for that utopian style health care!
You think you see dead people now, you just wait for free utopian-style government planned health care! Makes my heart flutter!
Steve
on Aug 22nd, 2009
@ 8:29 am:
How About “Cash For Creamations” instead. I’m sure it’s much cheaper.