Posted on 03/27/2009 6:58:55 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
For enough money they would name it China One Tower. Is everything for sales in this country? Is there no honor, pride or respect for those who perished. Shameful!
Send Mr. ARSE Hat my regards.....
Yes, It is Freedom Tower.
In Philadelphia, they renamed several streets for PC purposes.
Well Philadelphians like their traditions and their history.
No one uses the new names, no one.
I think its officially “man made disaster”.
Problem is that the US economy is in the toilet and the calls to "American patriotism" with the building weren't working. So the owners went a different way in order to fill it.
If it was government land, we could do whatever "we the people" wanted with it, but it's not. Instead, we are seeing capitalism in action and those with the money -- the Chinese, because we have borrowed so much from them and have huge trade deficits with them -- get to make the rules for what they want in order to inhabit the building.
Do I like it? Of course not! But it is what it is.
I don’t really care what they call it, since I think it’s an uninspiring single-tower design that leaves us looking like we had not the spirit or confidence to rebuild what was destroyed. The original WTC was a statement about American capitalism, and it was designed as such. This...this is just another office building.
Just wait... the final name will be “The Tower of Hope and Change.”
I can’t stand Trump, but he was right on here.
Great comment.
Well, for one, the Chinese are offended. And probably the North Koreans - and definitely the Iranians...
Question - I would not want to work in the new tower, it just seems like a good thing to avoid - do others here have a different view?
Of course, the reason is that it just may be a valuable target - even more valuable to the terrorist this time around - if (hopefully not) that event comes around.
I think we should call it the “F*** You” tower. But that’s just me.
That’s good to hear.
We need to bring the words Freedom and Liberty back into the language of our government.
Exactly, call it however you feel is correct.
Here in L.A., a huge number of people don’t call a certain Blvd, Cesar Chavez Blvd..they call it the “army road”, and most residents will know what you are referring to.
those four freedoms are bogus
that was FDR’s advancing his socialist agenda.
at least the bottom 2...there is no freedom from want. that is up to you....Freedom from Fear? buy a gun.
Socialists are not supporters of faith. It brought down the Soviet Union.
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This article is about Franklin D. Roosevelt's themes. For other uses, see Four Freedoms (disambiguation).
The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered to the United States Congress on January 6, 1941. In an address also known as the Four Freedoms speech, FDR proposed four points as fundamental freedoms humans “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy:
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of religion
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional American Constitutional values protected by the First Amendment, and endorsed a right to economic security and an internationalist view of foreign policy that have come to be central tenets of modern American liberalism. They also anticipated what would become known decades later as the “human security” paradigm in social science and economic development.
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