We Have Let New York City Down...

Admittedly, I give you this thesis on the grounds that I'm looking at all if this recovery from the prism of an outsider who looks at things from a little different angle...

I have been here in New York City for the last four days- on vacation. But, having seen a lot of Brooklyn and Manhattan boroughs, you see how two of the sides are living.

You look skyward and see a symbol of rebirth, recovery, and unbridled capitalism. It was called "Freedom Tower," but at the explanation of the tour guide TBH and I had circling Manhattan, not all of the incoming clientele have countries that are engaged in that practice with their population.

I know... "ridiculous," right...???

So, now, we're back to the "New 1 World Trade Center"

Okay, fine...

Here's when the spire was installed making the building 1,776 feet tall- the tallest building in the hemisphere...


Right now, before any more overruns, the alleged cost of building the tower is US$3.8-billion dollars...

And I can't help but think that when it's completed, it will be a long road of recovery only made longer by reintroducing something that, maybe, shouldn't be there.

I would maintain the money could be used for better things- like taking care of everyone's families affected by the day- all those who died in the towers, all who were injured and are still injured to this day, all the families of the first responders, all the businesses affected... all this effort in dollars shouldn't be delivered in north and south.

It needs to be sent sideways in a blanket to cover everyone...

Full disclosure: I know people who lost those close to them on September 11th. The losses are still talked about with a sense of anger- rightfully so...

And I feel it took way too long to get everything "settled" from September 11th...
It should not have taken ten years to find the culprits... and I use that word because we're in public...

It should have taken the greatest political experiment on this or any other planet no time- with all of our technological advancement and military expertise- no time... to find out who did it and rectify the evil that happened that day.

No time... and even if we didn't want our government to take care of it, 1099 the Israelis to do the work for you. Cut them a big check... send over some of the police departments from New York City to go over and find it. If the thought was that Al Qaeda were hiding in the mountains, why not give the Afghani a flatter approach to travelling to Mongolia and Russia.

I don't see an issue there... give fair warning... then, take care of business...
End of story...

You go to O'Hara's Pub and see the patches stapled on the wall from all over the world...
You see One Liberty Plaza that is now only getting its fair amount of repair and renovation... 12 years later...
You see sections of real estate cordoned off by chain link fencing... still... with no idea of how to go back in and rebuild...

Don't tell me that US$3.8-billion can't go a long way in making lives better than a building that a very small percentage of those who will work around and underneath New 1 World Trade will ever get to be a part in...

I can't buy it...

I have a simpler solution to remember what happened and it has nothing to do with another national holiday...