Have government regulations become so restrictive that the living cannot maintain sanitation by respectfully removing dead bodies from their midst?
Hurricane Katrina has indeed been a tragedy of catastrophic proportions for the people along the Gulf coast. However, the psycho-social implications of incremental Congressional legislation since Roosevelt's "New Deal" is apparent in the pictures coming out of New Orleans via TV.
As I watch, I see many idle people sitting amidst piles of trash and, occasionally, dead bodies. These scenes have shown a remnant of New Orleanins chanting that they need help, yet they seem to be doing nothing to clean up the relatively small area closest to them: Trash and bodies that can lead to foul odors and, ultimately, disease!
Without a doubt, water, food and shelter are vital commodities that need to be provided from sources outside this affected area. But, when it comes to the remnant's self-responsible behaviors (i.e., cleaning around their personal space), this level of dependency on NGO's, and the statutory agents/agencies of federal government to do for them what they can do for themselves should be critically questioned.
Indeed!
Where are the brooms and shovels in New Orleans? And;
Have government regulations become so restrictive that the living cannot maintain sanitation by respectfully removing dead bodies from their midst?
An UPDATE to this post was attempted when I learned that the family of a woman in a "wheel chair" had filed a law suit. The links were removed because the AP News and Find Law links for the articles no longer worked. I don't know if the woman in the 'wheel chair' is the same as the woman in the 'lawn chair', but I wish the family swift vindication for the wrongs that they suffered at the hands of those who are paid to do that which is right.
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