Don’t Rebuild the World Trade Center

Wall Street Journal | September 19, 2001 | HOLMAN W. JENKINS JR.

[Publius6961]

Don’t Rebuild the World Trade Center

Right.
Finish the Mass Murderers' job for them.

Makes total sense, loser.

[kcvl]

NOT rebuilding the site with a 100+ story tower (or two) would be tantamount to surrender.

How do you keep from getting a nose bleed? I'm serious. After 30 floors I'm CHICKEN! The entire building starts swaying. I think I'll stay in Arkansas. Not too many skyscrappers around here.

[Feisty1]

Not to rebuild the WTC would be like telling the terrorists they won. I live within sight of it and always have. I say rebuild it bigger and better with a memorial garden to the victims.

[Publius6961]

If (when?) it becomes a matter of giving the re-builders govt support, as a show of determination or something like that, it will become something everyone has a right to think over for themselves.

I think you overestimate the number of losers in this country.
They may be loud and they may get press but they are an irrelevant minority.

I have proposed the following many times:

Revise our tax system so no reduction in taxes is made, but we are individually allowed to assign our taxes to one of, say, 100 categories e.g. welfare, subsidies, the military, foreign aid...

Every liberal "progressive" clueless loser blanches at the proposal.

How dare anyone suggest that the taxpayer be given a choice!

[NativeNewYorker]

One of the beauties of living in a free, continental nation is that folks can live where and how they please.

I would likely literally die of boredom if I lived in a mostly rural environment. But I understand its appeal to those accustomed to it.

The 1970s NYC joking slogan still rings true: You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps!

[kcvl]

LOL!

Hey, I had the Clintons for 20+ years. Tell ME about crazy?!

[Scholastic]

We have our right to an oppinion even if we dont own the property. However you can bet dollars to doughnuts that our tax dollars will go to rebuild it. Asside, we just rebuild the thing as if all those people never existed.

[Willie Green]

I don't understand the knee-jerk, thoughtless reaction on this board that says re-build them and taller than before.

IMHO, we're infested with a bunch of adolescent, Nintendo-generation, libertarian pseudo-capitalists who think with their hormones rather than common sense.

[matrix_dweller]

I live within sight of it and always have. I say rebuild it bigger and better with a memorial garden to the victims.

Do it with NY NJ bond money, instead of my tax money. I want to buy a gas mask, smallpox and anthrax vaccinations instead.

[Billy_bob_bob]

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt, but with a new design. Instead of twin towers rising over a hundred stories, they should build one large building that starts out filling out the entire area of the former World Trade Center plaza. This structure should be built in a style resembing a Mayan pyramid, with the first section (comprising several stories) being topped by a second section set back about fifty feet or so. The entire structure would end up consisting of several "sections", layered on top of each other, each layer smaller in area than the first. This structure could be built with an enormous interior common area, so that offices that could not enjoy the exterior views could instead enjoy the interior views. Think of the Luxor pyramid in Vegas, but with vertical stacked sections instead of everything being on a slope.

The sheer size and mass of the structure should make it much more resistant to a terror attack than a free-standing skyscraper, and could end up with as much office space being available as the old complex had, with very spectacular views being available to most of the occupants. Then you could top it with a nice tower restaurant.

Anyway, just a thought.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Oh, and the new building should top out somewhere around fifty stories, then you add the tower for the restaurant. Missed that detail.

[Barset]

The re-built towers would honor the dead. A memorial garden would be full of teddybear-toting tourists snapping photos. Please, someone. How do I get hold of the hilariously funny parody of "Imagine" on FR recently. Think it was Georgia Girl who posted it. A pony-tailed, toker brother-in-law will turn up at a wedding this weekend with his guitar. This must be the losers and free-loaders all-time favorite anthem right up there with "Gimme Shelter." I want the parody so we can all rehearse. Big, big bunch. It will sound like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on downers.

[Feisty1]

In thinking about it, maybe we should rebuild the WTC as one enormous tower, in the shape of a giant middle finger facing Mecca!

[Let's Roll]

"I doubt the property owners would want to build two more 110 story buildings only to have them remain mostly empty in perpetuity because the financial players have decided there's no good reason to all gather in one spot anymore (and good reasons *not* to)."

Yes, it is likely that we have reached the time when, thanks to technology, serious thought should be given to dispersing workers instead of shoe-horning them into a vertical space. Think about not having to commute, possibly even working from home etc. It's just a matter of management getting over having to see faces in person every day. Again with the right technology, there are plenty of ways to check the work output of offsite employees.

I believe the NY and NJ Port Authorities owned the WTC or most of them? IF it was financially possible to leave the crater as intact as possible as a memorial, that would be my first choice for the future use of the site. Of course that would require serious commitment to dispersing workers back into or closer to their bedroom communities in NJ, Connecticut, Long Island etc. I know that NYC will resist such changes because of the lost tax base but it's coming anyway, so why not get ahead of the curve instead of replacing the WTC with the world's most expensive white elephants?