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Why are we building a $1 Billion memorial for 9/11?

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Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: raildogg
Looks like the feelings we had on september 12 or even a year after that are gone.
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No. On 9/11 my feelings were to bomb the hell out of every middle eastern country in existance, and those still are my feelings.
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thats cause you are an idiot
 
Originally posted by: AUMM
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: raildogg
Looks like the feelings we had on september 12 or even a year after that are gone.
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No. On 9/11 my feelings were to bomb the hell out of every middle eastern country in existance, and those still are my feelings.
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thats cause you are an idiot
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What he's probably omitting is that he would have liked to bomb all middle eastern countries before 9/11 as well.

Idiocy like this doesn't just suddenly develop, its incubated since birth.

 
$1 billion is absolutely disgusting.

However as long as its NY dollars, let them build their tourist industry any way they want (as long as they leave my tax dollars the frick alone.)
 
$1Billion?! The WWII memorial was just recently finished, and for the longest time there was no memorial for the people in that conflict. Now we want to spend many times more on something that affected far fewer people? To me this looks like people value 9/11 more than WWII, which is frightening! Don't get me wrong but WWII and everything associated with it was on a whole different level, this was a big terror attack, yes. Not a WORLD WAR, and as such isn't as significant, and isn't worth $1billion.

Ugh, I'm sorry just people blow 9/11 out of proportion. YES it was bad! YES many thousands of innocent people died. In proportion to everything else, a few thousand people isn't that much. Think about everyone else that dies in the country from car crashes, alcohol, tobacco, guns, and everything else. ... I don't know where I'm going with this I'm just pissed at the fear mongering and playing the patriotism card to often. [/RANT]
 
not to be a penis, but somebody mentioned we are spending 1 billion a week on our occupation/war/operation freedom etc etc (Im using all the names so not to offend anyone) its actually 6 billion a week...
 
We're spending almost $15 billion a year fighting marijuana...I'll happily settle for a billion on a memorial of one of the most horrible days in history.
 
Originally posted by: Josh
We're spending almost $15 billion a year fighting marijuana...I'll happily settle for a billion on a memorial of one of the most horrible days in history.
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A couple buildings fell, a few people died. Just terrible, the most horrific day in the history of mankind I'd have to say.
 
How much did the Pearl Harbor memorial cost?

As far as NASA, look up all the things they're contributed. The list is very long and includes things like cordless power tools and smoke detectors.
 
i'd rather hear about us spending 1 billion to improve cities, roads, and schools than on this memorial/museum.
 
Originally posted by: Josh
We're spending almost $15 billion a year fighting marijuana...I'll happily settle for a billion on a memorial of one of the most horrible days in history.
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So because we waste tons of money on other worthless things, we deserve to waste money on this too?

Bad rationalization.
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
The money isn't just being burned in a bonfire or something. It's being poured back into the economy in one useful way or another. Better than giving it to welfare recipients to be spent on alcohol & cigarettes!
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Quoted For the MotherFvcking Win.
 
Originally posted by: firebyyrd
It's justified. Honor for those that died. We're America, we have the money to blow, why not.

In my honest opinion NASA is a whole lot of waste of taxpayer dollars. The NASA request for 16.8 billion for 2007.
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Americans spend more than $20B a year on DVD's.
And more than $3B on chewing gum.

NASA provides spin-off products as a result of their research, much as we get spin-offs from the military.
They can get a lot done with that money too. Sure they are government, so there is naturally some waste. But they're still scrutinized a lot more closely than most other government organizations, and have less leeway to squander their budget.
If we didn't do science for the sake of science, we'd still be living in caves, with only wooden tools, no stone.

Some politicians buddy is sure cleaning up on this one, lucky for him tax payers are suckers.
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Exactly. It's along the lines of the Patriot Act. Why name it that? If you dare oppose it, that means you hate your country, because you're opposing the Patriot Act. Same thing here - "Oh, how can you oppose a 9/11 memorial???"
Wait until it goes over budget to like $10B. "Oh, how can you oppose a 9/11 memorial?"

Does this remind anyone of the funeral parlors that charge grieving families $7,000 for a $3,100 casket? Seems like exactly the same thing but on a larger scale.
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Even that's a damn ripoff. I've heard that there's a place that sells heavy duty cardboard coffins. No problem there. I's dead. I don't care none what I'm buried in.

What exactly are they going to build for a billion, a freaking skyscraper?

Build a 10 million dollar monument and use the rest to pay down the debt.
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For less than $1B, NASA paid for two Delta II rockets, 2 exceptionally sophisticated and capable rovers, entry vehicles for them, and pyramidal shells capable of landing the vehicles safely on the surface of another planet. And of course, the people involved in designing the things wanted to be paid, as do those who operate them, and analyze the data they return.
So, do that, or build a basically useless tower here on Earth.
Oh yeah, the MER's even did serve as memorials, to those lost in the destruction of Columbia.

Why did we spend only $15 million to investigate 9/11 while spending $1 billion on a memorial????????
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I can't help but smile at that.
Good good excellent point.
Kind of the reaction I had when I read that Katherine Harris was spending $10M to campaign for a job that pays, at least the "official" salary part of it, less than $1M over its full duration. 😕


Oh well, it was a national tragedy. Time to profit off of it.
Freedom Tower, United 93 movie....we just need an expensive memorial for the Pentagon now and we're set.
 
Originally posted by: jjsole
What he's probably omitting is that he would have liked to bomb all middle eastern countries before 9/11 as well.

Idiocy like this doesn't just suddenly develop, its incubated since birth.
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I also support bombing eastern europe and north africa as well, just so you know I don't have anything against Muslims in particular.

EDIT: Well, the UAE is ok. The other countries still need to DIAF though.

Originally posted by: Jeff7
If we didn't do science for the sake of science, we'd still be living in caves, with only wooden tools, no stone.
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😕

So the many great scientists from the past were all funded by the government? I always thought they did it on their own.
 
Originally posted by: Josh
We're spending almost $15 billion a year fighting marijuana...I'll happily settle for a billion on a memorial of one of the most horrible days in history.
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one of the most horrible in our lifetimes maybe, but small potatoes compared to the atrocities that have taken place over the course of history.
 
Originally posted by: Xyclone
Wow, as if our deficit wasn't big enough already! GG Bush Administration! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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Yes, since he has total control what the city of New York does with their money....😕
 
Rebuilding is important, but it's disgusting that this project is getting out of hand in terms of design quabbles and money costs. Pick a design, it doesn't need to please everyone and their mothers, and they should keep it simple, it's a memorial not an art exhibition.

the worst part of this thread was the dude who said nasa = waste of money. Just wow.
 
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