Posted on 12/17/2010 3:10:05 PM PST by giant sable
What happened? We got tangled up in Lilliputian chickensh*t, that’s what happened. People got carried away being concerned with minutiae to the point that they couldn’t see the forrest for the trees, nor the trees for the bark. Then they wrote regulations about it and killed virtually any desire among the young to dream because they weren’t allowed to do it, whatever it was.
We are over regulated, Republicans say this is so, and write new regulations, the Democrats say the Republicans de-regulated and that is a problem, so they write more regulations. In our community, we have a boat builder that needs a certain size boat launch, or they will have to move. Our community is debating whether this $120,000 ramp is affforable, and if maybe SAFE boats has outgrown our ability to support their infrastructure. The ramp needs to be 14 X 70, now HOW IN THE HEJJ did a concrete boat ramp come to be an undertaking this large? and why is that amount so out of the question to help out an employer with 300 full time employees? Was a time not long ago, when a community would have had volunteers form this structure, wait for a low tide and pour it. Damn the regulations, the local people would have just turned their heads to any of this BS and “got er dun”.
In 1929 the technology to build such a building were not in place they had to design the actual technology on site. Extremely interesting read if you get a chance.
Actually ¨Freedom Tower¨construction has been underway for over a year and the building is now about 50 stories tall, half of its planned height.
< Oh come on... that generation did everything they could to pass on their values. They were shouted down by the power of television in the 50's and 60's - the early voices of the victimized left. The children of the sixties drum marched with Hollywood's angry malcontents...
Sums it up nicely.
It is because there were two world wars that destroyed competition while America remained intact and geared for production. America did not lose millions of people and was not literally destroyed.
In the last half century the world has rebuilt and is able to be competitive again. The present world is no longer handicapped by the need to rebuild everything including people. Money and effort can and have been redirected to living rather than just existing.
People from all over the destroyed world migrated to America and had two things on their mind no more war, ever and become America wealthy.
This process has not been evenly distributed over time but it happened. China and India are now emergent say 25 years after Europe and Japan.
Russia tried but failed in the process and still suffers. The people of the Mideast are no longer choked by the Ottoman empire and have developed their resources and are thriving beyond the wildest dreams of 25 years ago.
I think the author hit on a big theme here. Lawyers and insurance companies have done a bang-up job of bubble-wrapping life and hence ensuring that risk become too....risky.
The project is taking so long because no one wants to offend mooslims. The mooslims would be offended if we were to rebuild on the site of their greatest triumph. The government should build an ICMB launch site there and launch a missile on the next 9/11 to mecca to cleanse the world of these insects.
The bottle we drank from:
http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html
Well, you would have to either GO to NEW YORK and see for yourself, or read a FOREIGN NEWSPAPER to find out, BUT...
12:31PM GMT 17 Dec 2010
Steel construction has reached the halfway point for "1 World Trade Center," the building also known as the Freedom Tower.
After years of stalled development, steel at the building reached the 52nd story more than 600 feet above ground.
The tower will stand at 104 stories, with an antenna reaching hundreds of feet higher, bringing it to a symbolic 1,776 feet, the tallest in the country.
(source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8208656/New-World-Trade-Centre-reaches-halfway-point.html )
Is it any wonder we can’t DO BIG THINGS anymore? Even when we do, NO ONE NOTICES.
I read about the erection going on at WTC 1, just like you.
I had to read it in a paper from the UK.
Because we(our government) is pre-occupied with tiny things.
At some level..it is our (We the People’s) fault for having allowed this to happen.
Except for the FACT it's not true.
“The bottle we drank from:
http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html";
Unreal! Thanks for the link!
“NAFTA was basically what killed those jobs off.”
Are you opposed to Free Trade?
Lawyers.
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