What a comeback! Eleven months after the tsunami ravaged Japan, a series of pictures reveals the

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 2/1/12 | David Baker

[ScottinVA]

This country is somewhere in between. We can`t get anything rebuilt in short order because the politicians, unions, EPA, and other special interest groups want their piece of the action.

Eventually we get something done, at 20x the reasonable cost and time expected to do the job.

[caww]

You have to remember also that to Japanese appearances are top priority......even when things aren’t right or how they need to be they have to appear so as quickly as possible.

It is not so much in the US and other countries.

[ScottinVA]

Yep. Back when those floods struck the midwest in 1993, hundreds of our troops volunteered to go and clean up the cities.

Some drew the unlucky card of East St. Louis.. many were having garbage thrown on them and threatened by the “locals,” who, instead of actually getting out and assisting in THEIR neighborhoods, sat back in their Section 8 dwellings, collecting government aid and eating government-supplied food.

No, cultures are not equal.

[Uncle Lonny]

Dang!

Look at all that scrap metal!

A feller could build hisself a rite good “Non Ferris IRA” with that stuff!

http://buckandmabelsbigadventure.blogspot.com/2007/02/plannin-fer-future-wif-yore-nonferrous.html

An dont forget bout all them “yard art” possibilities either;

http://buckandmabelsbigadventure.blogspot.com/2007/01/redneck-yard-art.html

[Venturer]

There is something they don’t have to deal with, but it isn’t the EPA in this case.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Some ocean bay is now filled, compacted and ready for new industry.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Perdogg.

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[Oatka]

Amen.

They remind me of the German civilians in WWII who were clearing the streets just as the Allied troops were leaving town.

[entropy12]

Correct, and same thing true for most all oriental countries.
I wish appearances also meant something in the US for the inner cities. Some areas of Detroit, Philly are a disgrace.

[dfwgator]

Detroit still looks like a tsunami hit it.

[caww]

I agree...Also in the US it’s all about clothes and what you drive in the area of appearances....one fad after another.

[caww]

I understand that’s also the problem in Haiti with their cleanup. The rescue guys who travel internationally to earthquake etc. zones said most nations they go to the local people are pitching right in to help. But it was not so in Haiti and agered many who went there to help that the local people wouldn’t lift their own hands to clear out or clean things up...most of them stood and watched all the people sent there do the work...and it is still that way today.