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星期日纽约时报刊头新闻报导了地震区的校舍建筑。前一阵子海外同胞一致的对境外媒体不公的讨伐，在阅读这些报导时，自己也格外的谨慎。看完整篇文章，加上末尾特别注明了有两位中国同胞 一起提供了资料，心理上比较踏实，也觉得文章写得也很中肯。当然，对一些意气冲动的同胞而言，可能又认为是在抹黑，煽动我们灾区的同胞了。其实我时常觉得，我们的同胞，即使居住在比较偏远地区，随着改革开放，在想法上也必然进步了许多。至少每个人多少都会有点自己的看法，也不至于受到别人的煽动。我想共产党当年就是靠煽动，蛊惑起家的，所以即使到了这个资讯发达的时代，还是一直认为我们的老百姓是经不住，也抵抗不住外来的煽动的。想想，自己的唯一子女，死在灾难中，难道这些无助的父母，就非得有人煽动才肯出来为自己的子女申冤，为自己讨个说法？
家长认为他们的子女不是死于天灾，而是死于人祸。因为附近的学校，经过同样的地震，校舍依然矗立，丝毫未损。纽约时报把灾区校舍的照片，请了好几位美国独立的结构工程专家鉴定。他们都一致的认为是工程根本不合规定。也就是我们所说的豆腐渣工程。纽约时报的记者也顺便加上了一句，目前中共已经开始对媒体管制有关校舍工程的报导。其实，中共这次对媒体的宽大是获得国外媒体的一致好评。大家也都觉得共产党，在温总理的领导下，已经开始走上了更开放，更民主的改革。这话，刚放出没有两天，中共又开始删除有关震区的豆腐渣工程报导了。当然，也会好好阻止老百姓的情愿与上访的。那绵竹市委书记不就是跪在地上，阻止老百姓的上访？值得安慰的是现在阻止上访的方式变了，变成了下跪。前几天还看到一篇有关南通被拆房市民的上访报导。南通市政府居然每年列了一亿预算，用各种反革命的方式不断的来阻止老百姓上访控告共产党员的贪腐啊。再有一点值得注意，就是教育部到现在为止，还是拒绝公布这次地震所有学校伤亡的人数。
有位居民在震前，为了要安排自己的子女就读震区附近一所重点小学，花了几千元人民币，还是没能如愿以偿。结果自己的小孩就葬送在瓦砾之下。而那所重点学校完整无损。原来，这个重点学校的校舍建筑合乎标准，师资也好。许多官员，还有家境好的孩子才能够挤进这个小学。还有一位农民为了自己孩子，也是花了不少的钱，从乡下转进入了县里的小学，为的是给自己的孩子一个出头的机会。结果，居然这个学校也震垮了，孩子也去了。这就是纽约时报报导我们震区学校教育的一个小插曲。这两个例子，告诉了世人，要我们的孩子接受好的教育，即使在一个社会主义的国家，也是要经过一番波折的。很明显的不是每一个家庭有能力使自己的小孩进入理想的中小学校。至于我们贫穷家庭的孩子，就只有听党的安排进入指定的学校了。这样的恶行循环，我们穷人，穷人的孩子，怕要永远做穷人，永远都翻不了身了。那年我在上海搭出租车，一位师傅告诉我，为了使他的小孩跨区进入上海的重点小学，为了能够进入理想的大学，他就需要花5000元人民币送礼。又有一位师傅告诉我，上了重点学校，花钱的日子才真正开始啊！而一个师傅，每隔一天开车，必须工作近20个小时，每个月才拿到3000元啊！根据他们的说法，就是国家抠的太紧。每个月要付出一笔相当的租车费给国家。记得那年北京的出租车司机就嚷嚷着租车费的问题。可是，没有人敢造次。因为排队要当出租车师傅的人多的很。您不干，抱怨，有的是人还在等着这份工作呢。
这次外媒一般说来对我们国内在第一时间的救灾是给予非常高的评价的。令大家敬佩的是这次救灾不只是国家动员的那一部分，而是许多国内同胞三五成群的自动自发的进入了灾区。这种血浓于水的同胞爱，表示着我们的同胞经过了改革开放，不但有了这个能力，也有这个胸怀为苦难同胞尽点力量。这种大爱深深的打动了外国的记者。因为这种大爱的显现，西方国家对我们祖国的看法是会产生极大的转变。而这种同胞爱的展现，的确给共产党一个极大的提醒。老百姓的眼睛也时时刻刻的在盯着共产党的所作所为。我们看到国家之宝温总理的为老百姓请命，风尘仆仆的指示救灾。看他内心焦急，的确对共产党官员发出了警钟。的确我们的老百姓已经慢慢的成熟了。共产党不能做到的，没关系，我们海内外的同胞是可以捷足先登的为自己同胞尽点力量的。
灾难过后总结经验教训是必要的，但每次这样的大会真正的议题并不是总结，而是庆功！“总结”出来的不是经验教训，而是功劳排行榜！现在凡事都时髦赌人头，我也斗胆祭上我的人头担保：“总结会”后，领导和“英雄”们的去向绝不是工作岗位或家里，而是——酒楼！
诚然，救灾行动中一定会涌现出不少冒死抢险、奋勇争先、舍己救人、大公无私的英雄事迹和英雄人物，这些无疑都值得大家尊敬，但说到要专门开表彰大会来颂扬就显得过分了，理由如下：
其一，救灾扶弱是普世价值观，存在于每个人的心底，并不值得吹嘘，就像我们看到邻居甚至素不相识的人遇到灾难时会毫不犹豫地相助一把一样。表彰“好人好事”并不能明显地激励人们增加奉献社会的热心，“好人好事”也不会从此就多起来；同样地，不表彰，社会爱心也不会从此而缺乏。今天我帮你，明天我可能需要你的帮助，这是普世价值观，传颂这种普世价值观才是务实之道。
其二，政府机构和人员救灾是其份内事，不救灾、不抢险会受到谴责。你可以谢谢救你的人，但“谢谢黨、谢谢政府、谢谢亲人解放军”就没必要了，“谁谁给了我第二次生命”之类的话，请不要再说了。希望不要再看到一个被救出来的小女孩，望着救援人员手中的矿泉水，急切地掏出两块钱，怯生生地说“我能不能买一瓶？”了。
其三，如果要说“功”，那为灾民慷慨解囊的善人们，为灾区无私奉献的志愿者们，他们的功劳又往哪里记呢？他们也能动用公共资源为自己开个庆功会吗？
其四，也是最重要的。所谓的救灾结束，大多并不意味着灾难已经过去了，而仅仅表示救灾第一阶段的结束。伤者的医治，灾后的重建，心灵的抚慰，社会秩序的恢复，哪一项都得耗时耗力，哪一项都不比第一阶段轻松多少，言“功”还为时尚早。更何况，面对无数的亡灵，面对无数失去双亲的孤儿，面对无数失去独子的中年夫妇，面对无数从此落下终身残废的伤者……我们何功之有？！灾难已经发生了，财产的损失、人员的伤亡、心灵的创伤是实实在在的，不会因为有人帮忙了而有丝毫减少；无论你多么努力，损失都是不可挽回的，所谓“取得抗灾胜利”完全是不合逻辑、自欺欺人和不负责任的说法！
工作总结应该是日常工作，而不是集中结束在一次“总结会”上；不要让表彰会成为下一次灾难的起点。请把大红花变成慰籍亡灵的圣花，把英雄奖状变成奇托哀思的黑纱，把奖金变成下步救援的资金，把庆功会上的笑容变成严肃思考的锁眉。
可是，残酷的现实摆在面前，伴随着“汶川大地震”的余震，编制“抗震救灾英雄谱”的工作也在如火如荼地进行着。毫无疑问，“抗震救灾总结表彰大会”将如期在神州大地一个接一个地召开。
那时农村老师的微薄工资被拖欠挪用，老师自己不得不趁暑假外出在建筑工地打工甚至摆地摊来维持自己的家庭运转。计划生育，更是残暴。老家一家生了一个儿子的夫妇，后来儿子１岁多生病无钱医治去世了，接下来又生了２个女儿，还想再生。 所以四处躲避政府的搜索，家里什么也没有，也没有父母兄弟姐妹亲戚帮忙，一天夜里下暴雨，政府一下子来了３０人，连夜把他们夫妇架走了，直接到小卫生所结扎。丈夫很了不起，坚决要自己一个人结扎，不要老婆上手术台。很快手术结束了，送回来了，第二天，刀口发炎了，不出半月，活生生的小伙子就去世了。每每想起此事，都想哭，实在很难过。那时十二，三年岁时，每次他看到我在田间地头干活，总要过来跟我说几句，说兄弟好上学，考上大学才有出息。我是很受鼓舞。
唉，在他们眼里，中国人不值钱，中国的农民是一钱不值啊。
记得从８０年代起，报纸上到处是先是农民交税交不起被逼自杀的，后来上学学费交不起农村农民自杀，接着农民工打工要不到血汗钱跳楼的，看病看不起自杀的，还有无数的因为计划生育引起的被逼自杀，在城市打工没有暂住证被驱赶的遣送的，真是赤裸裸的血腥风雨。老江本来有机会做一些事情的，他上台和在位时正是中国改革和发展的关键时刻，甚至是定型时刻，但他为了自己，家庭和幕僚的利益，不惜以国家利益为垫背。历史终究会被人看清的，哪怕自己作秀再好，赞歌再高。
说实在的，我个人觉得中国文化是很了不起的，但是经过共产党这个怪胎的统治，加上老毛的不知羞耻不怕断子绝生的大无畏精神的文化革命，中国人在文化上彻底断层了，再也找不到文化的一脉相承和文化认同感了，所以好大喜功，崇洋媚外，不能兼听则明，不是听不进批评，简直听不得批评，否则戴帽子，棒打狗咬辱骂，这些难道真的是我们的文化和素养!
台湾的民主也有阵痛，但是终于走过来了，很有说服力。我经常在想，有没有可能借用国民党多年来在民主进程的经验，让国民党一起参与大陆的改革和进步。国共合作有基础的，只要那些达官贵人和红朝既得利益者能摸摸自己的心口，愿意为整个民族和中国的农民的发展想一想。
谢谢您的留言。最近我一直在看有关中共建党的历史与当年革命的种种记录。不管毛泽东的功过，我觉得今天共产党还真亏了有个温家宝。最令人可恨的就是江泽民这个混混，把一向优秀的共产党风给破坏无遗。今天的贪腐就是江泽民当年为了保住他的江山造成的。胡温体制之下，到底能够改变多少真是一个未知数。看看陈良宇的案子就是个例子。这些上海帮的胡作非为真是到了令人发指的地步。可是有江泽民在后面顶着，只有轻轻的放下。我在上海两年，听了不少有关这类是事实。可怜的还是我们手无寸铁的小老百姓。最近知道南通市政府每年列入一亿人民币的预算，就是防止南通被拆迁居民往北京上访。他们为了自己的既得利益，对老百姓施行反革命的手段已经到了令人发指的阶段。举不胜举。今天温总理心理非常清楚这些共产党员的腐败。毕竟他是在尽自己的力量去做该做的事情。他不这样做，就怕共产党就真的要走上黄泉之路了。毛泽东就说过，一个因社会环境造成的政党，早晚也会被这个社会所吞噬的。因为，社会环境会变，如果一个政党不跟着变，当然会完蛋的。今天的共产党在基本上根本已经早已脱离当初建党的方向了。过去为革命捐躯的烈士，如果地下有知，真是死都难以瞑目了。
我来自农村，知道中国人特别是中国农民的苦，可以说９９.９９%的农民生活在自生自灭的状态下，温家宝上台后，没有了农业税，基层乡干部不再征收各种各样的苛捐杂税，就已经是农民的万幸了。记得九十年代，一些农民外出打工，不要政府分配的农田，但是农业税一分也不能少，那邦流氓土匪，赶猪的，牵牛的，抬家具的，非要把农民家里整空，还不罢手。所以我个人觉得温总理是很了了不起的人，免农业税，义务教育，还有正在慢慢开展的农村医疗保障体系，可以说是伟人。历史书上写周恩来如何如何，那毕竟是历史，没有经历过，不敢妄自品价，但从人性上来看，我感觉温更值得我尊敬，在现今中国官场现行下，能做出如此让农民休休生息决策的没有几个人。希望温总理的继任能真的有他的心肠，便是农民之幸事，国之幸事。尽管国家长远发展不能靠一总理，但谁又能在如此根深蒂固的官僚体系中振臂一呼，彻底改变现状呢。祝愿总理身体健康。
说说做海外的中国人挺难。中国强大了，我们高兴，中国有灾难了，我们可以支援，但是政府官员贪污腐败了，学校倒塌了，孩子没了，心中真是感到悲哀，愤怒和无可奈何。套用一位院士大人的话"谁让你生在中国，谁让你是中国人!"
你说中国如此之大，地理上有南有北，气候上有冬天有夏天，有资源，有人力，上帝给了我们如此好的家园，硬是在内耗之中苟且偷生。一级棒说的好，有几个海外华人愿意背井离乡，离开生我养我的家园，旅住他乡混口饭吃呢，有几个心甘情愿的呢?
如果此时的教育部部长或建设部部长，或是四川省的教育厅厅长或建设厅厅长，或是市里的教育局局长，建设局局长当中的任何一个人引咎辞职的话，都会在这次灾难中甚至中国进步发展上的都会留下一笔的。可是他们不但不稀罕如此"永垂千史"的机会，他们为了自己的官帽还四处找借口，真是悲哀。但是我个人相信一定要有达人为此承担责任的，就看那位官人倒霉了。
我相信不久的将来，国内将会如萨斯过后一样，一片高歌赞扬，升官的升官，发财的发财。
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看了真是令我愤怒。看看人家的国家是怎么来讨论防灾。我们的国家在救灾之余，还拼命的往自己脸上抹粉。这些四川的官员真的可以去死了。死几次都不足以平百姓之恨啊！89年旧金山5.9 级的地震之后，我们就收到政府的通知。要我们加强巩固地基。譬如房子的底部与钢筋水泥接触的地方，要固定。还有就是热水器，暖气设备要加绑等等。我就不明白，共产党他还要隐瞒啥，又有啥可以隐瞒的。到现在我们的教育部拒绝公布学校伤亡的人数。又开始控制媒体有关学校校舍震毁的报导。共产党一天不把实情公布给老百姓，一天他不会得民心的。看看这些共产党，都是啥时代了，还把我们的老百姓当作是当年的老百姓，爱干啥就干啥。真是可恶至极！不错，我们的解放军在拼命的救人，温总理也风尘仆仆的为民请命，可是看看那些官员的嘴脸，我们的穷老百姓啥时有个尽头啊？
一句话，没有$$$就不能搬到好学区，就不能读到好的中学，就不能上常春藤大学。同样大小的房子在好学区会比在一般学区贵上一两倍。很明显的不是每一个家庭有能力使自己的小孩进入理想的中小学校。至于我们贫穷家庭的孩子，就只有听上天的安排进入改进的学校了。这样的恶行循环，我们穷人，穷人的孩子，怕要永远做穷人，永远都翻不了身了。
yijibang，有篇文章值得我们留意：
Why the China Quake Was So Devastating
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer
posted: 15 May 2008 01:45 pm ET
Beichuan county, near the epicenter of the earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province, was one of the hardest hit areas where thousands of buildings collapsed, shown here in a photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency. Credit: AP Photo/Xinhua, Yang Lei.
The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province, leveling buildings and taking tens of thousands of lives, might not have wrought such destruction in the United States, experts say.
Ground-shaking from the relatively shallow earthquake in China leveled entire villages, burying thousands of people beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings, including 4 million homes reportedly shattered. The death toll exceeds 15,000 and could rise to 50,000.
Due to its intensity and relatively shallow origin — just 11.8 miles (19 km) below the surface — the China earthquake generated extremely powerful shaking felt as far away as Taiwan. Earthquake engineers speculate the adobe and masonry buildings and homes, many of which were probably not reinforced with steel as building codes dictate, added to the earthquake damage, especially in more rural areas.
LiveScience reported that an earthquake somewhat like China's on one of the faults in the Los Angeles area would be a "worst-case scenario," leading to extensive damage. Though extensive, engineers say the devastation would be much less than what occurred in China, due in part to better enforcement of building codes here. Yet they speculate that some buildings in the United States, such as warehouse-like structures and some Wal-Marts and Targets, may not be equipped to withstand intense ground-shaking.
West Coast cities have been vigilant about ensuring that buildings meet earthquake-safety codes, including retrofitting old homes and businesses. But in other parts of the country, where earthquakes can be powerful but rare, many buildings may not be prepared to hold up to powerful shaking, the engineers said.
Shake-proof buildings
Experts can't predict with any certainty the level of damage that would occur if a China-like earthquake were to hit the United States. However, they can make some speculations, based on the magnitude and ground-shaking.
"You certainly wouldn't see the extent of damage you see here [in China]," said Reginald DesRoches, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech. "I'm pretty confident about that. You just wouldn't see the level of damage, because they do really enforce the regulations, particularly in California."
DesRoches said building codes in the United States and China dictate the minimum level of safety for constructed buildings with regard to natural disasters like earthquakes. The main factor that causes structures to collapse, and therefore they must be braced against it, is ground-shaking.
In one approach to doing this, engineers add steel to concrete or bricks. The steel makes a brittle structure that would easily snap if rattled into a ductile one that can effectively wave with the temblor's motion.
"By adding steel to a structure that may be made of brick, you make the entire thing much more ductile," DesRoches told LiveScience. "That's how things should be built, and in fact the Chinese code specifies that. But the builders, to save money, just put the brick and didn't add the appropriate amount of steel, if any at all."
In parts of California near the San Andreas Fault, DesRoches says, modern structures are designed to withstand ground-shaking levels comparable to those felt in the Sichuan province. Over the past two decades or so, he says, older buildings in California have been rehabilitated to meet current safety standards.
"China didn't get an adequate seismic design code until following the big earthquake they had in 1976," DesRoches said. "If the buildings were older and built prior to that [1976 earthquake], chances are they weren't built for adequate earthquake forces."
Particularly the poorer, rural villages in China were hardest hit this week, according to news reports, highlighting a gap in building-code oversight that's related to economics.
"The earthquake occurred in the rural part of China," said Swaminathan Krishnan, assistant professor of civil engineering and geophysics at Caltech. "Presumably, many of the buildings were just built; they were not designed, so to speak."
Krishnan added, "There are very strong building codes in China, which take care of earthquake issues and seismic design issues. But many of these buildings presumably were quite old and probably were not built with any regulations overseeing them."
Seismic structures
In 2007, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) updated its seismic hazard map, which pinpoints areas vulnerable to earthquakes and the amount of ground-shaking that could occur. The maps also set building codes corresponding to the potential level of shaking.
Even so, earthquake engineers and seismologists are concerned about certain types of structures that could be vulnerable to major earthquakes.
Brick buildings without steel reinforcements would be considered the most vulnerable to collapse during ground-shaking, Krishnan said. "Now we can confidently say there are no un-reinforced masonry buildings in southern California."
However, some warehouses and other structures made out of concrete with little steel for flexing could collapse in a quake like the one that hit China.
"The next most risky buildings are these non-ductile concrete buildings. I hate to say it's similar to the Chinese situation, but it could be; we don't know exactly how bad these buildings are," Krishnan said. And so "the kind of collapses you saw in China, we might see here."
Wal-Marts and Targets could also take a hit, Krishnan said. Many of these mega buildings are constructed in a so-called tilt-up fashion in which huge concrete walls are constructed horizontally on the ground and then tiled up vertically and braced to the roof with some kind of connections.
"The connections are the weak link," Krishnan said. "When these connections between the roof and these wall panels go, you are going to see pretty big collapses."
Seismic cities
Some cities are more shake-resistant than others.
"The cities that have experienced earthquakes like Seattle and places in California are clearly much more vigilant, so those are probably some of the safest cities," DesRoches said.
But Memphis and St. Louis, which are in the New Madrid seismic zone, are worrisome to DesRoches and other experts.
"They haven't had an earthquake in a couple hundred years, so those are areas that people are concerned about, just because they don't have the history of doing seismic design as you do in California," DesRoches said. "Now new structures are built the right way, but older structures haven't been designed appropriately [in Memphis and St. Louis]."
He adds Charleston, South Carolina to the "hazardous city" list.
"Charleston is another city that is somewhat hazardous, because they do have a history of earthquakes, but they're very infrequent. The last [big] one was in 1886," DesRoches said.