China: 5,335 students dead, missing in 2008 quake »
Posted By FunnyBoyz 6 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsBEIJING – A year after the massive Sichuan earthquake leveled hundreds of schools, sparking allegations of corruption and shoddy construction, China finally gave Thursday its first official tally of the numbers of students dead or missing: 5,335.
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tadair9196 months, 3 weeks ago
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this is why communism doesn't work. you don't get the quality in building structures that you would have gotten in a market that allows competition. instead you say we need x buildings and we have y money -- make it work.
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so, this is another example of how capitalism is superior to government.-
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frctm56 months, 3 weeks ago
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I work in this business. Do you think contractors put bolts and rebar in building foundations because of competition? No, we have something in America called the Uniform Building Code with regional additions to this where state requirements and local laws produce different hazards. Turkey is not a communist country and lost close to 19 thousand people in an earthquake back in the nineties. Mexico City had a similar disaster in the eighties. Corruption in building practices is one of the primary culprits in inferior construction. Many of these countries have codes but they are not enforced. The reason for failure to comply is that it increases building costs and therefore makes your product "less competitive". Selling safety isn't sexy when it comes to homes and buildings. Most people are interested in square footage, cost, and aesthetic beauty.
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calitennflo6 months, 3 weeks ago
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China was pressured by the US to do what led to this Earth Quake...and they built it on a fault...using the technics learned from US builders...the added weight is the causal of these , that are dead...Ref: History Channel
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The US does things like this in War, and in diseases like cancer?-
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tadair9196 months, 3 weeks ago
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"When buildings collapse following an earthquake anywhere in the world, the first instinct is to presume Mother Nature is at fault. The second is to wonder why the buildings weren’t built to account for the risk of earthquakes. The third step is where people go really wrong. They blame the builders for failing to observe building codes and the government for failing to enforce them."
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"This is the state of commentary on the hellish situation in Dujiangyan, China, where tens of thousands of people died – including thousands of children in as many as 7,000 schoolrooms."
Keep Reading: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/chinese-earthq...
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