When you think it's as bad as it could possibly be, it gets worse:

(From CNN)

You know, it's hard to imagine anything worse than coming back to your home in New Orleans and finding it completely destroyed. But, tonight, as you're about to hear, there is something worse, much worse. Dozens of families have returned to what is left of their homes and found, lying amidst the mold and the wreckage, a body, forgotten, abandoned. Maybe it's their mother or their grandmother, sometimes even their missing child.

The state called off searching house to house in New Orleans well over a month ago. They said they completed the job. Clearly, they have not.

Well, what can be said here? Authorities spent months searching for bodies in the World Trade Center rumble, but in New Orleans people are being left to go home to find the bodies of their loved ones after months. And they are being just expected to call 911 for pick up, I guess.

JACK STEPHENS, SAINT BERNARD PARISH SHERIFF: As of right now -- in fact, the day before yesterday, in my own jurisdiction, a family came home to discover a family member who had been reported missing.

COOPER: Oh, my God.

STEPHENS: It was a horrible -- it was a gruesome sight. Very -- and again, people don't deserve any more grief and pain than they're going through right now. I mean, this whole process has been so excruciatingly screwed up and slow that, I mean, you're starting to feel a real sense of anger and hostility on the part of people locally and, my God, it's well-deserved.

This is like something from an old EC horror comic book. The family comes home after the disaster to find granny's moldering corpse still in the living room. Does this matter to anyone? Can't our officials see the way this makes people who already feel abandoned feel?

Doesn't government have any responsibility to be decent? Apparently not.

Would this have happened in a predominantly white, middle class area? Definitely not.