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helfman@aerospace.aero.org (Robert S. Helfman) writes:
>>
>>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.
>
>
>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. 

"every possible opportunity"?  I post one opinion, and already you
think you know me better than my mother.  Further, if you would have
asked you know that I've always voted for propositions that help build
schools, jails, colleges, and highways.

>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.

If you don't see a grave difference between the function of an
apartment and a hospital, you haven't thought about it.  An apartment
only serves its tenants, where a hospital has the legal and moral
responsibility to treat *anyone* that is in need.  An apartment serves
its tenants; a hostpital, the whole community.  An apartment serves a
dozen to a hundred people; a hospital, hundreds thousands.  If
apartments were required to house homeless people and anyone who
required shelter, then I would agree with you in their similarity.
But they don't.  Legally an apartment is a private enterprise, and
hospitals are public.  Hospitals may be run privately, but there are
state and federal requirements that the treat anyone they can,
regardless of their ability to pay.

>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. 

I and my family voted against Prop. 13.  It wrecked the schools.
Thanks for asking, once again.


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