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Sept. 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hey, great to be with you.
America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow.
We'll have a best of rush show on Labor Day and Rush will be back for the post-Labor Day election frenzy that starts Tuesday on the EIB network.
The Ground Zero Mosque, the Ground Zero Mosque.
You know, I don't even think this would be an issue.
And let's take everything as read, by the way.
The people who say this Imam is a moderate, Imam Raouf is a moderate, that's all rubbish.
He's just the usual phony baloney opportunist Imam.
He says one thing when he's over in Dubai, he says another thing when he's over here.
I don't care about all that.
There's a zillion of them.
I don't even care whether this is just going to be another radicalized mosque funded by sinister foreign interests because they're all over the place.
They're all over the map.
But what has made this one, I think, rubbed America's skin raw is the fact, obviously, that it is so-called at ground zero.
The Burlington Coat Factory was damaged by a part of the plane that hit one of the towers, and that's why the building can no longer be used as is.
This guy wants to put a mosque in it.
And if he gets the funding for it, by the way, I don't think he will.
As far as I can see, this guy's finance is a total mess.
I don't think he is going to get the funding for it.
Then what will happen is that this mosque will go up.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, at ground zero, there is the most eloquent statement about America in the early 21st century.
And that is a seven-story hole.
9-11 was something that America's enemies did to us.
The hole in the ground a decade later is something we did to ourselves.
Now, Nanny Bloomberg, Nanny Bloomberg, the take charge, get it done, make it happen, Mayor of New York, is now reduced to promising that that big hole in Lower Manhattan isn't going to be there for another decade.
No, siri, it's not going to be there for another 10 years.
Quote, I'm not going to leave this world with that hole in the ground 10 years from now, Nanny Bloomberg says.
And in the 21st century, that's what passes for action, for get tough leadership, for riding herd.
When the going gets tough, the tough boot the can another decade down the road.
Sure, those jihad boys got lucky and took out a couple of skyscrapers, but then the old can't do spirit kicked in, and a mere 10 years later, we've got a seven-story hole on which $7 billion have been lavished.
But if we can't put up a replacement building, you know, within a decade, we can definitely do it within two, probably.
Probably.
The non-official estimated date of completion for the brand new One World Trade Center tower is said to be 2018.
Don't hold your breath.
2018.
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You imagine if we had done what Americans in any previous generation would have done.
That building was taken out, collapsed, hit, smashed, shattered.
Something would have gone up on that site, bigger and better.
Do you remember, I used to get these emails in the weeks after September 11th.
Same joke used to be emailed to me every day with the proposed design for the replacement World Trade Center.
And you'd open up the attachment, and it would show a new skyscraper towering over the city with the top of it looking like a stylized hand with three towers cut off at the joint and the middle finger rising above them, flipping the bird, not only to Osama bin Laden, but all those other people, the people dancing in the street in Ramallah at the death and destruction rained down on the Great Satan, and all the Euro-sophisticates who'd sneered that America had it coming and had finally got it.
And there was this new glorious skyscraper rising above the city, flipping the bird at the world that said America had taken this hit and wasn't it a great day, and now America was back.
And that's what I thought would happen.
It never occurred to me in late September 2001 that we would leave this hole in the ground sitting there for a decade, for a decade, in the heart of lower Manhattan.
Don't we understand?
Don't we understand what that says about the country?
Don't we understand what that says about the United States in the early 21st century?
And Dan, don't, by the way, you can call me up and explain that, oh, well, we had to have the impact study group on this and the environmental impact group on that.
It's all very complicated because it's the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
So you've got two dysfunctional jurisdictions that have to reach agreement on it.
It's a disgrace.
It's a mark of shame to the United States that that hole is still there in the year 2010.
That nothing has been done and nothing will be done until the end of the next decade.
Do you realize all the highlights of the New York skyline date from the very worst of times, from the Depression?
I'm doing this very show from part of the Rockefeller Center complex that was put up at the depths, at the very depths of the Great Depression.
The Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world, was put up in 18 months during a depression because the head of General Motors wanted to show the head of Chrysler that he could build something that went higher than the Chrysler Building.
And now, three quarters of a century later, you know, the biggest things either man's successor has created at General Motors or at Chrysler is a mountain of unsustainable losses from union featherbedding.
And both GM and Chrysler are now owned and controlled by the government and unions.
And nobody at General Motors or Chrysler is thinking of putting up a new Empire State Building, and they couldn't even if they wanted to, because the permit process would take 10 years and you'd still have a big hole in the ground.
It's the hole in the ground.
It's the hole in the ground.
That says something about the United States in the early 21st century.
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What can we do?
This was Osama bin Laden understood symbolism.
He understood it very well.
He didn't pick these buildings by accident.
He didn't fly two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, and the fourth one was either going to hit the Capitol or the White House.
He understood the symbols of buildings.
He's like James Cameron, the stupid eco-movie director we were talking about earlier, who thinks the DVDs are destroying the planet.
Anyone who makes a movie understands the symbolism of this.
We see it, you know, you go to Planet of the Apes, and it ends with Charlton Heston walking along the sand, seeing the shattered Statue of Liberty and falling to his knees.
If you go to whatever it's called, the day after tomorrow, the big eco-disaster movie, you see the signature shot of the movie, the one they use on the poster, is the Statue of Liberty flash frozen because of a speech given by Dick Cheney.
I hope I'm not giving away any plot details there.
That's basically the movie.
Dick Cheney gives a speech, next thing you know, Statue of Liberty flash frozen.
You look at Godzilla, he rampages down Fifth Avenue and he's hurling, he hurls the top off the Empire State Building.
King Kong, he's up there twirling around the Empire State Building.
Osama bin Laden understands that symbolism.
As much as he hates Western culture and Western society, he thought he knew what he was doing when he drove a huge hole into the heart of lower Manhattan.
And what did American bureaucracy do?
It left that hole there for 10 years.
And so now we're bothered because a guy, some rinky-dink imam, wants to put up a 13-storey mosque, 15-storey mosque.
Do you realise if we had rebuilt the World Trade Centre, you wouldn't be able to...
He could have his little minaret on top of his 15-storey mosque, and you'd be up there in the new windows of the world on the observation deck looking down.
And they'd say, well, if you just turn the zoom to its very, very, very highest level, you might be able to see that teensy, wincy, insy beensy little mosque with its teeny little minaret down there, right on the ground, way down at the bottom.
And instead, the mosque is rising above the rubble, the rubble that's been there 10 years.
What has gone wrong with the United States of America that we could put up the tallest building in the world in 18 months at the depths of the Great Depression?
Now we can't.
And it's like Imam Ralph being on the take from the feds, being on the government payroll.
Everything Imam Ralph has done is connected to government.
These slum dwellings he owns in New Jersey, where you've got toilet water coming through the ceiling and dripping on his tenants.
He started that with government grants.
He's already been promised by someone on the relevant New York Commission he's going to get government money to put up his mosque.
He's got government church status for his phony baloney church where apparently 500 worshippers were going in and worshiping in his wife's one-bedroom apartment five days, five days a week.
He's got the government to buy 3,000 copies of his book and fly him to Egypt to pay for his book tour.
Government, government, government.
So on the other hand, you have this smart operator who understands that the gravy train is government, the gravy train is government.
But for real life, government is also the obstacle.
Why has that building not been replaced?
Why is there new no-world trade center?
Why can we not put it up in the space of a decade?
This is a greater humiliation than Osama bin Laden inflicted on us in 9-11 because we did it to ourselves.
And it says something very profound about the nature of American society in the early 21st century.
Nobody would care about some lousy 13-story mosque if there was some beautiful new state-of-the-art tower down there where it ought to be, rising to the skies.
The skyscraper, the skyscraper is an American word.
And it's the kind of word only America would invent because it encapsulates the American spirit.
You rise to the skies.
You are unbounded by any limits except when you reach the very roof of the heavens.
But American ingenuity knows no limits.
That's the America that invented the word skyscraper in the 19th century.
Now, what happens?
China, which America thinks of as a crummy assembly plant for all your junk from the crappy mart, built the Three Gorges Dam, the largest electricity generating plant in the world since 9-11.
Dubai, which is a mere sub-jurisdiction of the United Arab Emirates, put up the world's tallest building and has built this kind of Busby Berkeley geometric kaleidoscope of offshore artificial offshore islands all since 9-11.
Brazil, an emerging economic power, has begun diverting the San Francisco River to create some 400 miles of canals to irrigate its parched northeastern region.
But the hyperpower, the global hyperpower, can't put up a replacement building in 10 years.
This is the outrage.
The whole, the whole, as now people argue, people are still arguing about the 9-11 memorial.
You're missing the point.
The hole is the memorial.
The seven-story hole is telling us something about the state of America in the 21st century.
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Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Let's go to David in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Hey, David, you must be right in the path of Hurricane Earl there.
Is that so?
I'm sorry to say that again.
Are you in the path of Hurricane Earl?
Yeah, we might get a touch of it, but I don't think it's going to cause too much commotion around here.
We've got to fix in for it.
Oh, that's great.
That's what I like to hear.
You're not one of these people just scramming for the hills at the first sign of a little heavy wind.
Yeah, no panicking, and the grocery shelves aren't empty yet, so we're in good shape.
Okay, that's good to hear.
Great to have you with us on the show, David.
What's your point?
Well, Bill, I'm listening to what you were saying, and I was just shot in my radio like I was cheering on a football team.
I just thought, you know, absolutely right on.
It's a disgrace.
You know, we are acting like we are not the best country in the world in the history of mankind.
And, you know, we come across as arrogant to other countries, but there's nothing wrong with taking pride in the beautiful freedoms that we have.
And we're insulting ourselves by not replacing this building.
And it was more than just a building.
There were 3,000 souls that were lost that day.
And that's something else that we forget about.
And can we do something in Memoriam for them?
Is that even considered?
It is flabbergasting.
The fact that government weaves its ways into our lives, it always makes things complicated.
It bogs it down.
And then you get hands tied and everybody's picking on everybody else and saying, well, I can't do this because they got to do that first and this paper needs to be signed.
And then 10 years go by and you're looking at an empty hole.
And we're doing this to ourselves.
It is really, really a shame.
And I've got four boys and I have a son that's 12 years old and he's in the Young Marines program.
And if that boy decides to go to serve our country, I will do it with tears and pride in my heart because I believe in the founding of our fathers.
But I am not going to be happy if our country continues on the path that it's on.
And I pray that when November gets here, the backlash that's coming is going to just surprise the Democrats so much and even our Republicans to say that they better listen to us because we are a lot more than they ever considered.
You made a very good point there, David, when you were talking about how people just say, oh, you need to fill in the paperwork, you need to fill in the paper.
Worrying to me is that we take it as entirely normal, as entirely normal, that the city of New York and the state of New York and the United States of America cannot muster the energy to replace this building within less than two decades.
You know, in other words, there will be people graduating from college by the time anything goes up on that site who weren't born on the day Osama bin Laden took down those towers.
That is a sign of decadence.
And what is appalling about it is that people just think it's the way it is.
Oh, there's nothing you can't do.
You can't expect the New York Agency of Time Servers.
You can't expect the New York State Bureau of Compliance to rush something like this through.
You can't fight City Hall.
You can't fight.
Why can't you fight City Hall, by the way?
I'm fighting City Hall.
I'm in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
I think I don't understand.
I don't understand why people want this to be the face of the United States of America.
The Pentagon, the Pentagon, which is not the most beautiful building in the world, but it's an unusual shape.
It's difficult, difficult to build a building like that.
They put it up in 18 months, start to flat, start to finish.
It opened, I think it is less than that, in fact, in less than 18 months.
But no time at all, no time at all.
The Houses of Parliament in Britain was struck, in London, was struck by Nazi bombs several times during the war.
And when the war ended, they basically rebuilt the whole thing as it had been before and reopened it and reopened it five years later.
And that was on a devastated city.
Let's go to Andy.
Andy is at Ground Zero.
Andy, great to have you with us on the show.
How you doing, Mark?
You're doing a great job.
You got some mighty big shoes to fill there, sir.
Yeah, they are the biggest.
They're Godzilla-sized shoes, and we do our best.
Mark, let me just tell you, I do all the big work in New York City.
I completed the AOL Towers, I did Yankee Stadium, I did Goldman Sachs headquarters, I did Seven World Trade, and the Winter Garden.
All started from scratch in the time where the trade center was destroyed.
So here we are taking care of all these other perimeter projects, and we are letting that gigantic cemetery sit.
So I got together all my 9-11 hot hats, and we started this pledge.
It's called the 9-11 Hard Hat Pledge.
And I tell you, Rush, if not for Rush Limbaugh, we would not have gotten the traction on it that we're doing right now in regards to this mosque issue.
This pledge just says none of us 9-11 hard hats will contribute to the building of that mosque in that location.
And ever since I spoke with the big guy, I've gotten people all around the country from other countries, as a matter of fact, giving pledges that they will not contribute any goods or services.
That's good to hear, Andy.
The pledge not to build a mosque.
You know, you should maybe evolve that slightly.
Say, we'll get to the mosque once we've replaced the World Trade Center.
We'll put it on the to-do list, but after we've replaced the World Trade Center, that's Andy speaking to us from Ground Zero.
Lots of York calls straight ahead.
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Yeah, we can boogie down, boogieing down the toilet of history.
That is pretty much the upshot of the show today.
Mark Stein Infra Rush, talking about the inability to make things happen at Ground Zero, which is what we were talking about with Obama yesterday, really.
Obama is the big do-nothing.
He's the do-nothing guy.
He's the sit-around guy.
If America was trying to build the Transcontinental Railroad today, they'd be spending the first three decades on the environmental impact study and hammering in the golden spike to celebrate the point at which the Feasibility Commission's expansion up from the fifth floor met the zoning board's expansion down from the 12th floor.
That's what we can do.
Paperwork we can do.
We can put obstacles in your path.
We can put obstacles in your path.
That's what government does.
Let's go to Richard in Hinton, Virginia.
Richard, you're not in the path of Hurricane Earl, are you?
I've been trying to find someone about to be totally devastated by this hurricane, but I haven't had much luck so far.
Don't have any problem with it here at all.
It's supposed to be nice weather this weekend.
Oh, good for you.
Well, first thing I wanted to say is you talked about bovine flatulence.
Yeah, I am an expert in bovine flatulence.
Yes, I know that, and I've observed that.
Anyhow, here in Virginia, I call it fresh dairy air.
Dairy air.
That's great.
That just makes it sound so you could probably bottle that and sell it to Cameron Diaz and Kate Blanchard.
That sounds just beautiful.
They'd all want to.
That's.
Anyhow, what I really called about was we're sending money overseas to rebuild mosques in other countries.
Yes.
Well, why don't we hear any cry of separation of church and state?
Well, you know, that's fascinating.
That's a fascinating point, Richard, because as I said, I'm starting from the premise now: this country's insolvent.
We're broke.
We spend it all.
We got no money.
So, and people say, well, everybody likes these programs.
You conservative types keep going on about cutting spending, but people like these programs.
Really?
How many people think it's a good idea to spend a to do to, in effect, build a $100 million mosque, which is what the United States government is doing in Tanzania?
I mean, where is that in the interests of the United States?
You're right to point out the State Department has managed to come up with some cockamami mosque-building program.
The U.S. government helped rebuild the big mosque in Cairo, I think it was.
The mosque that is, in fact, a monument to Islamic triumphalism and was named after the Muslim conqueror who destroyed and vanquished Christian Egypt.
What is in it for the United States taxpayer in doing that, Richard?
Absolutely nothing.
But the thing is, if it's anything to do with Christian, if it was a Christian church they were giving $10 to, there would be nothing but complaints about separation of church and state.
No, but you know, that's the classic liberal thing.
You're right, that if we made a $200 donation to help something at St. Peter's in Rome, you'd be hearing all the separation of church and state stuff.
But the ACLU is like a lot of liberal institutions.
They only want to fight phantom enemies.
It's like all these radical playwrights who write plays about a gay Jesus having an affair with Judas Iscariot.
They wouldn't do that about Muhammad because there'd be an entirely different crowd of folks waiting for them at the stage door.
The liberals always want to fight phantom enemies.
And so you won't hear a peeper protest about public monies, huge sums of money in effect.
You know, $100 million even for the profligate United States government isn't chicken feed, going to rebuild foreign mosques.
And thank you for bringing that up, Richard, because when your congressman, if you're at town hall meetings and all the rest of it, between now and November, and your congressman or your senator says, well, we need to control some of these things, but it's actually very difficult to identify things that could be cut.
Let's start small.
Let's accept your point that we can't do a lot of big stuff, Medicare, Social Security, and all the rest of it.
Why don't we just cut out the junk?
And I would say this country is insolvent and cannot afford to spend $100 million rebuilding mosques in Tanzania and Egypt.
Let's just start there.
Let's just say that if an Imam wants to write a book and sell it in the Middle East, he should pay for his own book tour.
Sorry, maybe we'll think, maybe once we're flush with cash again, we'll start getting into the whole subsidized Imam on the Dole program.
We can revive the Imam on the Dole program when we're flush with cash again.
But right now we can't.
Let's go to John in Springfield, Illinois, where they were demonstrating, where you had union workers saying, standing in the streets chanting, Raise my taxes, John, a few weeks ago.
Did it work?
Have they raised your taxes?
Not yet, Mark.
I'm really hoping that, you know, being from the land of the great do-nothing, not all of us out here are stupid and crazy enough to have supported him, by the way.
Right, right.
I thought your program today is probably one of the best that I've heard.
The hole in the ground is an atrocity.
And why the do-nothing liberals in New York who have the power to cut the red tape and get beyond the cow flatulence and could actually start making something happen at that site haven't done so.
It's disgraceful.
And to even be considering and having to engage in this debate nationally about putting up the mosque, the debate should be about how soon and how quickly we're going to finish a monument to the people who died on September 11th.
This is atrocious that we haven't been able to fulfill what should have been done within a matter of months, not 10 years.
But you know something, John?
Even when the monument, the specific 9-11 monument is built, it'll just be the usual feeble, wimpy, easy-listening, multicultural, squishy, drively, nothing of a monument.
It won't be big, robust American eagles of defiance and courage.
If you think about the Flight 93, for example, Flight 93, it was the only good news of the day.
9-11 was really Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle raid on the same day.
What happened was three planes went down, and the guys on the fourth plane figured out what was happening and stopped it and paid with their lives.
It was the only good news of the day at the day when all the fancy pants, money-no-object acronyms failed America.
FBI, CIA, INS, all of them failed.
The only good news came from self-reliant American citizens acting in defense of this nation.
And yet when they come to put up a monument for these brave men on Flight 93, they come up with the stupid crescent of embrace thing, which even if it isn't actively some Muslim crescent pointing towards Mecca or whatever it's supposed to be, is still just limp-wristed pansy stuff that has nothing to do with what these guys did on Flight 93.
And you can bet your bottom dollar that by the time anything goes up at ground zero memorializing 9-11, it'll be more of the limp-wristed pansy type stuff, John.
I'm sorry, but to me, you don't put up a Japanese pagoda at the entrance to Pearl Harbor, and you don't put up a taco stand right outside of the Alamo.
It's wrong.
It's not something that should be done.
And I don't believe I'm alone in feeling that way.
No, no, you're not.
But unfortunately, all the people who ban the zoning commissions for this kind of thing feel entirely, fail entirely differently.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
We're talking about the big hole in the ground.
You know, John there is from Illinois.
And Illinois, as he said now, it's the state of the do-nothing.
It's the state where the do-nothing Barack Obama comes from.
But it used to be, people forget that verse from America the Beautiful, which is the verses we don't sing are beautiful.
But Catherine Lee Bates, I always like that line: Oh, beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years, thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears.
She'd just been a couple of days before at the White City exhibition in Chicago with all these marvels of electric light, which were now, you know, Edison's invention is now illegal.
These marvels of electric light, these fabulous skyscrapers, it isn't just a hymn to the fruited plains and the purple mountain majesties.
America the Beautiful is a hymn to the future and American modernity.
After she saw the white city of Chicago, what did they do with the white city?
They took it down and it became Hyde Park, home to Barack Obama, Bill Airs, and the rest of the crowd.
That's the American America's history of the last hundred years in a nutshell.
From the White City to Bill Airs and Barack Obama's neighborhood.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
We were talking about those kind of weepy, squishy, wimpy memorials that we build today.
We don't build the great old stone memorials of resolve with lions and eagles and all the rest of it.
But if we had to have like your silly old national healing circle, I could have lived with that if by now it had been on the penthouse floor of the even more World Trade Center towering above Manhattan.
And the fact that we haven't been able to do that in a decade says something and not something good about America in the early 21st century.
Let's go to Rick in Sarasota, Florida, way south of Hurricane Earl.
It's going to be clobbering Martha's Vineyard and any vacationing Democrats up there in the next couple of days.
Rick, great to have you with us.
Hey, Rick, you're live on the air in Sarasota.
Hey, Rick, are you listening to your radio?
That may be the problem.
Rick's wandered away from the phone.
Let's go to Andrew in Grand Rapids.
Andrew in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Hi, how are you doing?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Are you still reeling under your telegenic Canadian governor?
What's her name, Governor Granham?
Oh, yeah, Jennifer Griffin.
Yeah, Governor Granham.
I think, well, I won't say anything about that.
No, no.
The reason I was calling was, yeah, well, my mom always said if I didn't have nothing nice to say, just keep my mouth shut.
But my call was about, you know, I am also appalled that there's still a seven-foot hole or a seven-story hole at Site of Ground Zero.
But everyone that I've talked to, co-workers, friends, family, you know, when they picked that glass, gaudy design for what is eventually going to go there, you know, about the time my kids graduate from college.
Right, right.
But everyone I've talked to thinks that instead of having that glass sculpture, that we ought to rebuild everything the exact same it was, one story taller, and make two floors, the new floors, a tribute, and maybe do something like get gold brick-sized plaques made up to the outside, so it kind of looks like two gold halos over them with the names of the people that died that day.
Yeah, I think that's the American spirit because you're making a statement.
Whatever building goes up in that place is a statement that has to take into account the events of September 11th.
And the fact that it isn't there already is in itself a statement.
But that's what you'd like.
You'd like the same size towers, but just a couple of stories taller.
Everything looks the exact same from the outside, one story taller.
You know, the main lobby can be the same.
Everything identical, like it never happened, only one story taller.
Yeah, and I would go rebuilt it.
Yeah, I would go a little further too, Andrew, and I'd do this.
So if we have to have your daft old crescent of embrace multicultural, feeble, wimpy loser kind of memorial up there on the top floor, next to it, we should have some kind of virtual reality theme park experience where you can go in and enjoy the animatronic experience of living in a smelly old cave with the jihadists back in Waziristan.
And we're putting it on the top of a 500-story building.
And we've got some super powerful GPS thing there.
So you can zoom down on where Osama bin Laden is in Waziristan and look at him using the executive latrine at the back of the cave.
There has to be an element or an understanding that this site was not just your usual slapdash sclerotic New York building construction site, but a statement about the nation.
And the fact that the replacement building is not there is a statement about the nation, and that's very sad.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more to come.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
Let's go to Jerry in Landis, North Carolina.
Jerry, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you.
Hey, boy, I am so pleased.
Mark, you're doing a good job, man.
But you need some help here.
Okay, okay.
Well, I got you.
I got you.
I'm all set.
Give it.
Lay it on me, man.
Let's ask the guy who owns that property when he's going to rebuild it.
Well, he's a guy called Larry Silverstein.
He's buying whichever you want.
Yeah, it could be Silverstein.
He's a guy that collected $7 billion at its destruction.
Yeah, and he holds the lease.
He's not actually the owner.
He holds the lease, but, but he's stymied by this strange hybrid of various authorities, public and private, around him, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is a bi-state organization.
I don't mean that New York is a bi-state in the orientational sense, although it is pretty much.
But New York and New Jersey are two states that are both dysfunctional.
And when you put two states on one commission, then you're going to have a whole bunch of separate issues there.
You've got a whole bureaucracy issue with its own delays.
And then you've got the private owner versus the port authority.
But it's not just that he's sitting there on the $7 billion thinking that he can live with the whole, Jerry.
Oh, well, that's what occurs to me.
I mean, we live in the land of private property, and this guy's property was destroyed, and it seems to me he holds all the cards.
Yeah, that's how it would have been in 1930 in New York, when New York hadn't yet gone down the path of the Bureau of Compliance.
But now, now, it is all about getting approvals, getting permits, getting this, getting that.
That's why you could put up the Empire State Building in the middle of a depression in 18 months, but for 10 years, you've got a seven-story hole covering 16 acres, and with just this little skeleton peeping up, a metal skeleton peeping up a few stories out of it.
It is a disgrace and it should not be there.
Mark Davis will be in for Rush tomorrow.
There's a best of Rush on Labor Day, and don't forget that Rush returns live on Thursday.
This has been Mark Stein.
I've had a great time.
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