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星期日紐約時報刊頭新聞報導了地震區的校舍建築。前一陣子海外同胞一致的對境外媒體不公的討伐，在閱讀這些報導時，自己也格外的謹慎。看完整篇文章，加上末尾特別注明了有兩位中國同胞 一起提供了資料，心理上比較踏實，也覺得文章寫得也很中肯。當然，對一些意氣衝動的同胞而言，可能又認為是在抹黑，煽動我們災區的同胞了。其實我時常覺得，我們的同胞，即使居住在比較偏遠地區，隨著改革開放，在想法上也必然進步了許多。至少每個人多少都會有點自己的看法，也不至於受到別人的煽動。我想共產黨當年就是靠煽動，蠱惑起家的，所以即使到了這個資訊發達的時代，還是一直認為我們的老百姓是經不住，也抵抗不住外來的煽動的。想想，自己的唯一子女，死在災難中，難道這些無助的父母，就非得有人煽動才肯出來為自己的子女申冤，為自己討個說法？
家長認為他們的子女不是死於天災，而是死於人禍。因為附近的學校，經過同樣的地震，校舍依然矗立，絲毫未損。紐約時報把災區校舍的照片，請了好幾位美國獨立的結構工程專家鑒定。他們都一致的認為是工程根本不合規定。也就是我們所說的豆腐渣工程。紐約時報的記者也順便加上了一句，目前中共已經開始對媒體管製有關校舍工程的報導。其實，中共這次對媒體的寬大是獲得國外媒體的一致好評。大家也都覺得共產黨，在溫總理的領導下，已經開始走上了更開放，更民主的改革。這話，剛放出沒有兩天，中共又開始刪除有關震區的豆腐渣工程報導了。當然，也會好好阻止老百姓的情願與上訪的。那綿竹市委書記不就是跪在地上，阻止老百姓的上訪？值得安慰的是現在阻止上訪的方式變了，變成了下跪。前幾天還看到一篇有關南通被拆房市民的上訪報導。南通市政府居然每年列了一億預算，用各種反革命的方式不斷的來阻止老百姓上訪控告共產黨員的貪腐啊。再有一點值得注意，就是教育部到現在為止，還是拒絕公布這次地震所有學校傷亡的人數。
有位居民在震前，為了要安排自己的子女就讀震區附近一所重點小學，花了幾千元人民幣，還是沒能如願以償。結果自己的小孩就葬送在瓦礫之下。而那所重點學校完整無損。原來，這個重點學校的校舍建築合乎標準，師資也好。許多官員，還有家境好的孩子才能夠擠進這個小學。還有一位農民為了自己孩子，也是花了不少的錢，從鄉下轉進入了縣裏的小學，為的是給自己的孩子一個出頭的機會。結果，居然這個學校也震垮了，孩子也去了。這就是紐約時報報導我們震區學校教育的一個小插曲。這兩個例子，告訴了世人，要我們的孩子接受好的教育，即使在一個社會主義的國家，也是要經過一番波折的。很明顯的不是每一個家庭有能力使自己的小孩進入理想的中小學校。至於我們貧窮家庭的孩子，就隻有聽黨的安排進入指定的學校了。這樣的惡行循環，我們窮人，窮人的孩子，怕要永遠做窮人，永遠都翻不了身了。那年我在上海搭出租車，一位師傅告訴我，為了使他的小孩跨區進入上海的重點小學，為了能夠進入理想的大學，他就需要花5000元人民幣送禮。又有一位師傅告訴我，上了重點學校，花錢的日子才真正開始啊！而一個師傅，每隔一天開車，必須工作近20個小時，每個月才拿到3000元啊！根據他們的說法，就是國家摳的太緊。每個月要付出一筆相當的租車費給國家。記得那年北京的出租車司機就嚷嚷著租車費的問題。可是，沒有人敢造次。因為排隊要當出租車師傅的人多的很。您不幹，抱怨，有的是人還在等著這份工作呢。
這次外媒一般說來對我們國內在第一時間的救災是給予非常高的評價的。令大家敬佩的是這次救災不隻是國家動員的那一部分，而是許多國內同胞三五成群的自動自發的進入了災區。這種血濃於水的同胞愛，表示著我們的同胞經過了改革開放，不但有了這個能力，也有這個胸懷為苦難同胞盡點力量。這種大愛深深的打動了外國的記者。因為這種大愛的顯現，西方國家對我們祖國的看法是會產生極大的轉變。而這種同胞愛的展現，的確給共產黨一個極大的提醒。老百姓的眼睛也時時刻刻的在盯著共產黨的所作所為。我們看到國家之寶溫總理的為老百姓請命，風塵仆仆的指示救災。看他內心焦急，的確對共產黨官員發出了警鍾。的確我們的老百姓已經慢慢的成熟了。共產黨不能做到的，沒關係，我們海內外的同胞是可以捷足先登的為自己同胞盡點力量的。
災難過後總結經驗教訓是必要的，但每次這樣的大會真正的議題並不是總結，而是慶功！“總結”出來的不是經驗教訓，而是功勞排行榜！現在凡事都時髦賭人頭，我也鬥膽祭上我的人頭擔保：“總結會”後，領導和“英雄”們的去向絕不是工作崗位或家裏，而是——酒樓！
誠然，救災行動中一定會湧現出不少冒死搶險、奮勇爭先、舍己救人、大公無私的英雄事跡和英雄人物，這些無疑都值得大家尊敬，但說到要專門開表彰大會來頌揚就顯得過分了，理由如下：
其一，救災扶弱是普世價值觀，存在於每個人的心底，並不值得吹噓，就像我們看到鄰居甚至素不相識的人遇到災難時會毫不猶豫地相助一把一樣。表彰“好人好事”並不能明顯地激勵人們增加奉獻社會的熱心，“好人好事”也不會從此就多起來；同樣地，不表彰，社會愛心也不會從此而缺乏。今天我幫你，明天我可能需要你的幫助，這是普世價值觀，傳頌這種普世價值觀才是務實之道。
其二，政府機構和人員救災是其份內事，不救災、不搶險會受到譴責。你可以謝謝救你的人，但“謝謝黨、謝謝政府、謝謝親人解放軍”就沒必要了，“誰誰給了我第二次生命”之類的話，請不要再說了。希望不要再看到一個被救出來的小女孩，望著救援人員手中的礦泉水，急切地掏出兩塊錢，怯生生地說“我能不能買一瓶？”了。
其三，如果要說“功”，那為災民慷慨解囊的善人們，為災區無私奉獻的誌願者們，他們的功勞又往哪裏記呢？他們也能動用公共資源為自己開個慶功會嗎？
其四，也是最重要的。所謂的救災結束，大多並不意味著災難已經過去了，而僅僅表示救災第一階段的結束。傷者的醫治，災後的重建，心靈的撫慰，社會秩序的恢複，哪一項都得耗時耗力，哪一項都不比第一階段輕鬆多少，言“功”還為時尚早。更何況，麵對無數的亡靈，麵對無數失去雙親的孤兒，麵對無數失去獨子的中年夫婦，麵對無數從此落下終身殘廢的傷者……我們何功之有？！災難已經發生了，財產的損失、人員的傷亡、心靈的創傷是實實在在的，不會因為有人幫忙了而有絲毫減少；無論你多麽努力，損失都是不可挽回的，所謂“取得抗災勝利”完全是不合邏輯、自欺欺人和不負責任的說法！
工作總結應該是日常工作，而不是集中結束在一次“總結會”上；不要讓表彰會成為下一次災難的起點。請把大紅花變成慰籍亡靈的聖花，把英雄獎狀變成奇托哀思的黑紗，把獎金變成下步救援的資金，把慶功會上的笑容變成嚴肅思考的鎖眉。
可是，殘酷的現實擺在麵前，伴隨著“汶川大地震”的餘震，編製“抗震救災英雄譜”的工作也在如火如荼地進行著。毫無疑問，“抗震救災總結表彰大會”將如期在神州大地一個接一個地召開。
那時農村老師的微薄工資被拖欠挪用，老師自己不得不趁暑假外出在建築工地打工甚至擺地攤來維持自己的家庭運轉。計劃生育，更是殘暴。老家一家生了一個兒子的夫婦，後來兒子１歲多生病無錢醫治去世了，接下來又生了２個女兒，還想再生。 所以四處躲避政府的搜索，家裏什麽也沒有，也沒有父母兄弟姐妹親戚幫忙，一天夜裏下暴雨，政府一下子來了３０人，連夜把他們夫婦架走了，直接到小衛生所結紮。丈夫很了不起，堅決要自己一個人結紮，不要老婆上手術台。很快手術結束了，送回來了，第二天，刀口發炎了，不出半月，活生生的小夥子就去世了。每每想起此事，都想哭，實在很難過。那時十二，三年歲時，每次他看到我在田間地頭幹活，總要過來跟我說幾句，說兄弟好上學，考上大學才有出息。我是很受鼓舞。
唉，在他們眼裏，中國人不值錢，中國的農民是一錢不值啊。
記得從８０年代起，報紙上到處是先是農民交稅交不起被逼自殺的，後來上學學費交不起農村農民自殺，接著農民工打工要不到血汗錢跳樓的，看病看不起自殺的，還有無數的因為計劃生育引起的被逼自殺，在城市打工沒有暫住證被驅趕的遣送的，真是赤裸裸的血腥風雨。老江本來有機會做一些事情的，他上台和在位時正是中國改革和發展的關鍵時刻，甚至是定型時刻，但他為了自己，家庭和幕僚的利益，不惜以國家利益為墊背。曆史終究會被人看清的，哪怕自己作秀再好，讚歌再高。
說實在的，我個人覺得中國文化是很了不起的，但是經過共產黨這個怪胎的統治，加上老毛的不知羞恥不怕斷子絕生的大無畏精神的文化革命，中國人在文化上徹底斷層了，再也找不到文化的一脈相承和文化認同感了，所以好大喜功，崇洋媚外，不能兼聽則明，不是聽不進批評，簡直聽不得批評，否則戴帽子，棒打狗咬辱罵，這些難道真的是我們的文化和素養!
台灣的民主也有陣痛，但是終於走過來了，很有說服力。我經常在想，有沒有可能借用國民黨多年來在民主進程的經驗，讓國民黨一起參與大陸的改革和進步。國共合作有基礎的，隻要那些達官貴人和紅朝既得利益者能摸摸自己的心口，願意為整個民族和中國的農民的發展想一想。
謝謝您的留言。最近我一直在看有關中共建黨的曆史與當年革命的種種記錄。不管毛澤東的功過，我覺得今天共產黨還真虧了有個溫家寶。最令人可恨的就是江澤民這個混混，把一向優秀的共產黨風給破壞無遺。今天的貪腐就是江澤民當年為了保住他的江山造成的。胡溫體製之下，到底能夠改變多少真是一個未知數。看看陳良宇的案子就是個例子。這些上海幫的胡作非為真是到了令人發指的地步。可是有江澤民在後麵頂著，隻有輕輕的放下。我在上海兩年，聽了不少有關這類是事實。可憐的還是我們手無寸鐵的小老百姓。最近知道南通市政府每年列入一億人民幣的預算，就是防止南通被拆遷居民往北京上訪。他們為了自己的既得利益，對老百姓施行反革命的手段已經到了令人發指的階段。舉不勝舉。今天溫總理心理非常清楚這些共產黨員的腐敗。畢竟他是在盡自己的力量去做該做的事情。他不這樣做，就怕共產黨就真的要走上黃泉之路了。毛澤東就說過，一個因社會環境造成的政黨，早晚也會被這個社會所吞噬的。因為，社會環境會變，如果一個政黨不跟著變，當然會完蛋的。今天的共產黨在基本上根本已經早已脫離當初建黨的方向了。過去為革命捐軀的烈士，如果地下有知，真是死都難以瞑目了。
我來自農村，知道中國人特別是中國農民的苦，可以說９９.９９%的農民生活在自生自滅的狀態下，溫家寶上台後，沒有了農業稅，基層鄉幹部不再征收各種各樣的苛捐雜稅，就已經是農民的萬幸了。記得九十年代，一些農民外出打工，不要政府分配的農田，但是農業稅一分也不能少，那邦流氓土匪，趕豬的，牽牛的，抬家具的，非要把農民家裏整空，還不罷手。所以我個人覺得溫總理是很了了不起的人，免農業稅，義務教育，還有正在慢慢開展的農村醫療保障體係，可以說是偉人。曆史書上寫周恩來如何如何，那畢竟是曆史，沒有經曆過，不敢妄自品價，但從人性上來看，我感覺溫更值得我尊敬，在現今中國官場現行下，能做出如此讓農民休休生息決策的沒有幾個人。希望溫總理的繼任能真的有他的心腸，便是農民之幸事，國之幸事。盡管國家長遠發展不能靠一總理，但誰又能在如此根深蒂固的官僚體係中振臂一呼，徹底改變現狀呢。祝願總理身體健康。
說說做海外的中國人挺難。中國強大了，我們高興，中國有災難了，我們可以支援，但是政府官員貪汙腐敗了，學校倒塌了，孩子沒了，心中真是感到悲哀，憤怒和無可奈何。套用一位院士大人的話"誰讓你生在中國，誰讓你是中國人!"
你說中國如此之大，地理上有南有北，氣候上有冬天有夏天，有資源，有人力，上帝給了我們如此好的家園，硬是在內耗之中苟且偷生。一級棒說的好，有幾個海外華人願意背井離鄉，離開生我養我的家園，旅住他鄉混口飯吃呢，有幾個心甘情願的呢?
如果此時的教育部部長或建設部部長，或是四川省的教育廳廳長或建設廳廳長，或是市裏的教育局局長，建設局局長當中的任何一個人引咎辭職的話，都會在這次災難中甚至中國進步發展上的都會留下一筆的。可是他們不但不稀罕如此"永垂千史"的機會，他們為了自己的官帽還四處找借口，真是悲哀。但是我個人相信一定要有達人為此承擔責任的，就看那位官人倒黴了。
我相信不久的將來，國內將會如薩斯過後一樣，一片高歌讚揚，升官的升官，發財的發財。
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看了真是令我憤怒。看看人家的國家是怎麽來討論防災。我們的國家在救災之餘，還拚命的往自己臉上抹粉。這些四川的官員真的可以去死了。死幾次都不足以平百姓之恨啊！89年舊金山5.9 級的地震之後，我們就收到政府的通知。要我們加強鞏固地基。譬如房子的底部與鋼筋水泥接觸的地方，要固定。還有就是熱水器，暖氣設備要加綁等等。我就不明白，共產黨他還要隱瞞啥，又有啥可以隱瞞的。到現在我們的教育部拒絕公布學校傷亡的人數。又開始控製媒體有關學校校舍震毀的報導。共產黨一天不把實情公布給老百姓，一天他不會得民心的。看看這些共產黨，都是啥時代了，還把我們的老百姓當作是當年的老百姓，愛幹啥就幹啥。真是可惡至極！不錯，我們的解放軍在拚命的救人，溫總理也風塵仆仆的為民請命，可是看看那些官員的嘴臉，我們的窮老百姓啥時有個盡頭啊？
一句話，沒有$$$就不能搬到好學區，就不能讀到好的中學，就不能上常春藤大學。同樣大小的房子在好學區會比在一般學區貴上一兩倍。很明顯的不是每一個家庭有能力使自己的小孩進入理想的中小學校。至於我們貧窮家庭的孩子，就隻有聽上天的安排進入改進的學校了。這樣的惡行循環，我們窮人，窮人的孩子，怕要永遠做窮人，永遠都翻不了身了。
yijibang，有篇文章值得我們留意：
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.