Detroit can't afford to die

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."

superfluousloquacity wrote:There are certain cities that we cannot allow to crumbe and detroit is one of them. Obama needs to pass a bill similar to emergency funding for natural disasters that addresses these cities and offers them either loans to be paid back at low interest rates or not to be paid back at all. only makes sense that if there are companies that "cant be allowed to fail" that there would be cities with the same designation.