Saturday, September 27, 2003
Here is a reason to invade a country: Its citizens are dying @ an alarming rate and the people in power and system by which they are empowered is to blame.
France received a shock this summer, when more than 10,000 of its elderly citizens died in distress during a heat wave--some while supposedly under medical care in hospitals. Thanks to the 35-hour workweek and the long August holiday, these institutions were short-staffed. The families of those who died were on holiday, too.
the article is linked to over at Instapundit and the toll is numbered @ 14,802
France received a shock this summer, when more than 10,000 of its elderly citizens died in distress during a heat wave--some while supposedly under medical care in hospitals. Thanks to the 35-hour workweek and the long August holiday, these institutions were short-staffed. The families of those who died were on holiday, too.
the article is linked to over at Instapundit and the toll is numbered @ 14,802
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