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Bruce's avatar

The condo collapse was due to the local building department approving a flawed design that was going to fail and it was only a matter of time, and the obvious fact that the same building department did not inspect the construction work or chose to look the other way when no waterproofing was applied to the foundation area over the parking garage. The reason for having local building departments is to keep developers and their contractors honest and when it fails to do its job people die. They die in building collapses and dams breaking and 737 airplanes crashing to the ground. Problem in part is that the people making the decisions are never held accountable for their actions. No one at Boeing was tried for manslaughter and only the shareholders paid for the deaths that were caused.

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RMDolddave's avatar

And once again, as long as money equals speech and corporations are people, corrupt and incompetent public sector decision-making will kill more people.

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