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In article <CARASSO.94Jan24152839@Quaestor.Inference.COM> carasso@Inference.COM (dr. carasso) writes:
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>baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
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>>In fact, all but one of the collapsed overpasses was
>>scheduled to be fixed pretty soon.  Of course, it'd be nicer if they'd
>>ALREADY been fixed, but Caltrans had limited funds so they couldn't go
>>as fast as one might like.  
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>I think this is bullshit.  I would *love* to see a map of the freeways
>that are reinforced and those that are "scheduled" to be.  I bet you
>could never get that information and make it public.  I believe that
>the city's freeways are pathetically covered against quakes.  In the
>89 quake in SF when the freeway collapsed, they claimed that that
>section was just about due for reinforcement.  Bull.  
>
>I don't buy that you can fuck up a freeway upgrades and whenever
>something wrong happens, say "oh we were just about to get it that
>one."  And when the freeways collaped in the same place in 1971 why
>were they rebuild exactly the same way so that they'd collapse again.
>
>Further, I believe that all public service buildings should have been
>*required* to be earthquake upgraded.  I can understand taht
> individual apartment landlords cannot upgrade and make their buildings
> safe, but, by God, each and ever single damn hospital should have been
> fucking upgraded.  It's a crime.  This was only a lousey 6.6.
>
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>Roger Carasso ______________________GOD IS MY MODERATOR_____


If God is your moderator, he isn't doing a very good job of it.

You seem to be one of those folks who bad-mouths government at every
possible opportunity, yet expects it to magically find the funds to do
instantaneous freeway upgrades. You say that apartment landlords
'cannot' upgrade their buildings, but seem to expect all hospitals to
do so - even though the great majority of hospitals are private
institutions.

And, although I'm sure you're too young to have been of voting age
when Prop. 13 passed, if it were being decided today you'd be
in favor of it. A very large part of what killed city, county, and
state government in California was Proposition 13. When I was young,
government had the money to DO things - like build freeways, good
schools and universities, aquaducts, and other large-scale projects.
We had public libraries that were open every evening and weekend.
When I was college, the L.A.P.D. had 7500 officers for a city
population of 1.5 million; now it has 7500 officers for a population
of 3.65 million. Thank Prop. 13 and the mentality that spawned it.
If you want to have a SOCIETY, you have to pay for it.