Reflections on 9/11

The ninth anniversary of 9/11 rolled around this weekend and I wanted to share my feelings and opinions about the subject here on my blog as well.

While its time to remember those who fell to unspeakable horror on 9/11, I feel it's our duty to call BULLSHIT on the lack of anything significant standing built on Ground Zero after this many years. America should be ashamed for allowing bureaucracy and red tape from holding up construction on the site. It's a damn embarrassment to this country.  Plain and simple.

 

Since 9/11, we have had time to dismantle an entire country's government while throwing our Brothers and Sisters onto death's door in Iraq. The tallest man made structure on Earth was built in 5 years during a global financial crisis. The Burj Dubai cost $1.5 billion US to build and they didn't even have the funds to complete the thing when the markets crashed. They still made it happen using the support of their neighbors.  Hence the name change to The Burj Khalifa in honor of the UAE President, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for his and his country's crucial financial support.  

 

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, $7 billion will have already been spent on the ground zero project and only 200 feet of structural steel has been built inside the pit that sits there now. Even today, the majority of the structures in the master plan for the site are in doubt or being blabbered about by what can be described as bureaucratic filibustering just to keep alive any chance of some political party, agency, or other such outfit getting a little more credit or financial gain from the project. If they keep up this spectacular rate of progress, the master plan for the site will not be completed until 2037.

On this 9th anniversary of 9/11, we should already be craning our necks at 5 spectacular structures built on that site, experiencing a $2 billion dollar train / commuter station with people surging through it, and all around the site the gentle sound of waterfalls should be heard coming from the footprints of the towers to constantly remind us of the 2,752 people murdered there and how the entire event changed our country for the better and for the worse.

This day is a sad one for our country. For more than one reason. It really and truly is. It speaks mountains about how pitifully our country is run and how infrastructure critical to the growth and stability of our country consistently gets stone walled by our state and federal government, our banking system, and other "people of influence."