[jlogajan]

If you don't own the property. Shut the h*ll up.

[mdittmar]

on patriotically misguided investors who fell for the "Buy America" nonsense.

I am buying,I am patriotic and there are bargains.Is it "misguided" to buy low and sell high!

only savvy traders who dumped their soured positions

Soured positions, I have to assume means selling at a loss, is it "savvy" to buy high and sell low?

[Bikers4Bush]

New Yorkers and only New Yorkers should have any say in this at all.

Newspapers and liberal hacks should keep their opinions to themselves.

I personally hope they rebuild them even taller than before.

[lovearkansas]

I must agree with jlogajan. If you don't own the property you have nothing to say about it.

[NativeNewYorker]

Panty-wearing slobs who couldn't invest their way out of a paper bag have no right to tell others how to develop property.

Rag-headed Berserkers with delusions of grandeur do NOT make the zoning laws in Sodom.

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

[shrinkermd]

This is a well thought out editorial. It is hard to disagree. There really is no reason to build 100 story office buildings to cram thousands of people into. In the age of information and the internet it is hard to justify the enormous public expense of a "trophy" office building.

As to the patriotism arguement, what war has ever been won by building or rebuilding an office building? We are in for a 10 year war of attrition where the costs and casualties are going to be significant on both sides. Better to focus our money and efforts on rebuilding the economy and winning that war.

[shuckmaster]

Aw, Shucks!

[tobygan]

Check NYS bond rating: http://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/budget/2000/1-00.htm 49th of 50th. Only with fed $.

[spectre]

Rebuild? Line up the tenants first.

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[metal_war]

I do have a question. If the markets were closed immediately upon the attack happening, who were the folks who did all that major insurance company (and other issue)short-selling before the attack even happened?

Germany is investigating this question now; shouldn't we be? Or are we in some way afraid to even ask that question?

One other thing: Did anyone else hear that many people did not show up for work in those buildings on the day of the attack? Coincidence or prior knowledge? Any truth? If not, any evidence against the rumor? Thanks.

[Publius6961]

Don’t Rebuild the World Trade Center

Right.
Finish the Mass Murderers' job for them.

Makes total sense, loser.

[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.

[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.