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Incredible Before-And-After Photo Shows How Fast Japan Is Rebuilding
Business Insider ^ | 03/23/2011 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 03/23/2011 7:59:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 03/23/2011 7:59:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Japan is the model for why a nation should avoid multiculturalism and diversity.


2 posted on 03/23/2011 8:01:26 AM PDT by brownsfan (D - swift death of the republic, R - lingering death for the republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And we’re still rebuilding New Orleans after Katrina?


3 posted on 03/23/2011 8:01:35 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Contrast this with New Orleans, after Katrina....

God Bless the Japanese people!!


4 posted on 03/23/2011 8:02:02 AM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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Hell, it’s been ten years since 9/11 and still we haven’t rebuilt on Ground Zero.


5 posted on 03/23/2011 8:02:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe after they are finished, they can come over here and put up a new WTC. Should only take them a couple of months at the rate they are going!


6 posted on 03/23/2011 8:02:42 AM PDT by catman67
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Japan is the model for why a nation should avoid multiculturalism and diversity.

I have no problem with us having a multi-racial society, with all kinds of different cultures, as long as we share common values. We've sadly gotten way too far away from that in the last 50 years.

7 posted on 03/23/2011 8:04:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: catman67

There’s an opening in the world for somebody to become the Andrew Carnegie of carbon fiber. Nobody should be making buildings or bridges out of steel any more.


8 posted on 03/23/2011 8:06:54 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: dfwgator

they are actually at 60 stories on the main tower right now...


9 posted on 03/23/2011 8:07:19 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: SeekAndFind

Paint me skeptical.


10 posted on 03/23/2011 8:10:33 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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Japan is the model for why a nation should avoid multiculturalism and diversity.
For all our problems, there are many Japanese who would trade places with you in a Tokyo minute. I worked with them for 9 years over here. They dreaded going back and having their kids treated like aliens. And don't get me started on how they treat the hard-working Koreans!
11 posted on 03/23/2011 8:11:25 AM PDT by kenavi ("Anything that can't stand up to ribbing isn't worth much to begin with." Eric Idle)
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I'm with you.

The 'after' picture appears to be taken a few hundred feet further back then the 'before' picture.

12 posted on 03/23/2011 8:16:20 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
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RE: Hell, it’s been ten years since 9/11 and still we haven’t rebuilt on Ground Zero.


We could have done it already if we had the collective will to do so. It took New York only about 18 months to build the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING in 1930-31 ( the height of the great depression), and was finished about a month ahead of schedule and $5 million under budget.

We showed we could do it then. We have better technology today, but we don’t have the spirit to do it.


13 posted on 03/23/2011 8:16:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: wendy1946

When carbon fiber fails (and it does), it fails catastrophically.


14 posted on 03/23/2011 8:17:02 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (For the first time in my adult life, I'm scared of my government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

American New York City left-wing wimps still have a disgraceful, cowardly hole in the ground nearly ten years after 9/11.


15 posted on 03/23/2011 8:17:15 AM PDT by Amagi (ObamaCare proposed a tax on Tanning Salons. That is RACISM STRAIGHT UP!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like a different stretch of road. I believe in the second pic the damaged area is on down the road quite a little ways.


16 posted on 03/23/2011 8:17:27 AM PDT by bereanway
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Indeed.

The trees are much closer in one pic than the other.

Would need to see it up closer before I would say it is rebuilt.


17 posted on 03/23/2011 8:18:16 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (For the first time in my adult life, I'm scared of my government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is a very BIG difference today — can you say “Political Correctness”?


18 posted on 03/23/2011 8:20:10 AM PDT by Mr. Wright
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Wanna bet union work is not mandatory, the government is not running the project for the exclusive benefit of the Teamsters and politicians are not looking for taxpayer handouts to big time contributors?


19 posted on 03/23/2011 8:23:54 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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They got unions in Japan?


20 posted on 03/23/2011 8:24:08 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Y'all had enough, yet?)
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