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Offline Chris_

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Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« on: May 11, 2010, 12:23:55 PM »
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RALEIGH (MCT) — Wake County social service workers have told funeral directors that the county's Human Services department will no longer help poor families by giving them caskets.

The county can't pay for them anymore as officials scramble to save money during this year's budget crunch.

Occasionally, county social services could help out by providing a casket 20 to 25 times a year at a total cost of $8,000 to $9,000.

The low-end caskets cost about $360 apiece. Raleigh funeral home owner Bruce Lightner predicts that people will start leaving bodies unclaimed if funeral costs get too high.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/05/11/article/raleigh_cuts_off_free_caskets_to_poor

Whatever happened to cardboard boxes and funeral wraps?
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 12:29:06 PM »
Cradle to Grave Welfare just became Cradle to Deathbed. lol.
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2010, 12:35:17 PM »
Wasn't there a story last year  about unclaimed bodies in Detroit or some other liberal waste land?
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 12:44:54 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 11, 2010, 12:35:17 PM
Wasn't there a story last year  about unclaimed bodies in Detroit or some other liberal waste land?

The city of Detroit can't afford to bury dead homeless people.
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2010, 02:53:57 PM »
Quote from: FGL on May 11, 2010, 12:44:54 PM
The city of Detroit can't afford to bury dead homeless people.

Well....Detroit has an abundance of empty land, and it can't cost much to rent a bulldozer for a day.......problem solved.

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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 03:13:06 PM »
Furnaces....
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2010, 04:21:51 PM »
Bulldozer, burlap bags and quicklime, problem solved.
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2010, 04:35:52 PM »
Every city water department has rubber tired backhoes that could dig a grave.... Oh I forgot, union workers only do certain jobs and not others. OK so somebody would probably volunteer to do it after work if they'd let'em.
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2010, 05:28:55 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on May 11, 2010, 04:35:52 PM
Every city water department has rubber tired backhoes that could dig a grave.... Oh I forgot, union workers only do certain jobs and not others. OK so somebody would probably volunteer to do it after work if they'd let'em.

No volunteering, the union would go nuts
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2010, 06:01:20 PM »
Quote from: FGL on May 11, 2010, 05:28:55 PM
No volunteering, the union would go nuts

OH, forgot about that...yeah, only christians would do such a thing and there is that wall thingy....that no one else seems to see.
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Re: Raleigh, NC stops giving free caskets to poor
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2010, 06:07:36 PM »
What happened to the Green Goodbye?  The liberals wanted to be wrapped in burlap and left in the forest for other animals to feed on.  I like the idea for liberals.  I'm not so sure about the hobo and bum population.  Some of them are conservative at heart and deserve a decent burial.
 
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