Bridge collapse and Infrastructure concerns...

[malvachat]

Originally Posted by Mazer

miss_silver, stop obsessing over the things I post here.

Try saying please.It sometimes helps.

[miss_silver]

Originally Posted by malvachat

Try saying please.It sometimes helps.

Indeed

[Mazer]

Please, miss_silver, chillax for once.

[albed]

Senate Democrats make up bridge propaganda -

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.co...e_exactly.html

A day after the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, Sen. Patty Murray joined other Senate Democrats to accuse the Bush administration of failing to maintain the country's bridges. And she had a dynamite anecdote:

"I have learned of a bridge where school buses have to stop and let all of the children out and pick them up on the other side because of weight restrictions."

The Hill reports that the anecdote was quickly repeated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:

"The children have to walk across the bridge!" he declared in outrage.

When asked specifically where the bridge was the propaganda stopped. There was no such bridge.

[Mazer]

Originally Posted by albed

When asked specifically where the bridge was the propaganda stopped. There was no such bridge.

And even if there was, it would most likely be a short bridge on a one-way road with minimal traffic and the responsibility for replacing it would fall squarely on the local and state governments. Bridges of that sort are not funded federally.

[Nicobie]

Originally Posted by Mazer

Please, miss_silver, chillax for once.

yep

[multi]

BEIJING -- Communist authorities have banned most state media from reporting on the deadly collapse of a bridge in southern China, with local officials punching and chasing reporters from the scene, reporters said Friday.

The harassment and the reporting ban, issued by the Central Propaganda Department, came Thursday while reporters swarmed the tourist town of Fenghuang to report on Monday's accident.

Communist authorities have banned most state media from reporting on the deadly collapse of the bridge, with thugs punching and chasing reporters from the scene, reporters said Friday. Rescuers have found 41 bodies but no signs of life in the days since the bridge's collapse Monday in the southern tourist town of Fenghuang.

Unidentified locals roughed up a group of five newspaper and magazine reporters as they interviewed families of those killed, according to a photographer and a reporter whose colleague was among the journalists involved.

The collapse of the bridge, which was under construction, left at least 47 people dead, making it one of the worst building accidents in China in recent years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081700752.html

[Nicobie]

Jesesss multi,

Make up your mind.

I thought it was evil business people who were to blame for everything?