Here's a shocker: the rebuilding of the World Trade Center is bogged down in delays and cost overruns.
New York's slow and extraordinarily costly shamble in rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11, now almost seven years ago, is a typical example of socialist state planning. This fiasco is a model for what so-called progressive liberals, led by Senator Barack Obama, intend for socialized strangulation of the entire economy.
In its June 30, 2008, edition, the Wall Street Journal reports:
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center will be pushed back into the next decade and will cost up to $3 billion more than planned. The Port Authority is set to release a report detailing significant delays and cost overruns on construction.
This may be disturbing to taxpayers who foot the bill, but it's really good news for liberal-progressive-socialist politicians, of whom New York State and New York City have an ample supply.
As I noted roughly a year ago in "World Trade Towers: a Socialist Fiasco":
We can count on government planners to produce the most inefficient projects conceivable by the human mind. Manhattan’s Freedom Tower, intended to rise on the site of 9/11 destruction, is an egregious example . . .
New York City, the nation’s most socialistically ingrained municipality, in the nation’s premier socialist state, has a long history of public works boon-doggles, of which the Freedom Tower is just the latest.
One of the earliest was the city’s effort in the 1920s to compete with, and to destroy economically, the privately-owned IRT West Side subway lines. The chosen vehicle was Mayor Jimmy Walker’s IND subway system (famous, if nothing else, for Duke Ellington’s theme song, “Take the A Train"). In the end, both lines were economically unsustainable without city subsidies.
This set in motion the city’s take-over of all of the privately owned subway lines and ushered in the era of cronyism between the city’s socialistically-inclined politicians and the Transport Workers Union (TWU), founded and led by Mike Quill, an open and proud member of the Communist Party . . .
The standard government-planning way to do this is to spend the maximum possible amount of public funds, for the longest possible time, and employ the maximum possible number of unionized workers at the highest imaginable wages. This promotes full employment for voters and life-time tenure for politicians holding the benefits slop buckets at the public pig-feeding trough.
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On top of all the above reasons, isn't it possible some democrats with some power to do this, are delaying the reconstruction to make sure it does not happen under a Republican administration?
Think about it,
The destruction of the Towers happened under a Republican administration,
And the reconstruction would happen under a Democrat administration,
Don't you think the left would love to use that event as some evidence Obama has brought " hope and change" ?
It was just a thought…
Comment by Friend of USA | July 7, 2008
Dear Sir,
Well done! You correctly and succiently identified both the root cause and effect in just a few short sentences.
Your editorial should not be possible in the United States. The Constitution of the United States lists only four responsibilities for the Executive Branch: 1. coin money, 2. sign treaties, 3. wage war, and 4. maintain a post office. In fact the Constitution DOES NOT provide for the President to be elected by the general population.
Neal Boortz once asked; "tell me one thing that the government does well?" (before you say "the military" are you certain that it is the government who does well or a handful of very courageous and exceedingly patriotic men and women who defend this country in spite of the politicians?)
Please keep your good thought coming.
Regards,
Your faithful reader.
Comment by GlobalRoamer | July 7, 2008