Yearly operating cost of the 9/11 museum in NYC. (companies, economy, state)

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Sir Klato

I guess so. Larry Silverstein should pay, run and manage that museum. I don't believe our tax dollars should go to it.

Some already has, via the LMDC (HUD) funds, but I agree and said earlier in this thread that before using tax money, they should solicit more private donations from NY tourism-industry sources. LOL, if you gave it to Silverstein to run, he'd probably be running around suing people to pay for it.

[FinsterRufus]

Originally Posted by Sir Klato

I find it disturbing that people want to relive a terrorist event. The memorial, IMO, is sufficient. I remember a year after 9/11, tourists would go to the site and look at the big hole in the ground.

Originally Posted by LetsRock

It's a freaking bomb site not Mecca!!!!! Get over it already.

What you seem to fail to understand is that it's not just about a hole in the ground or a bomb site, it's about a place where people committed extraordinary acts of courage under unimaginable stress, and who are in large part - if they are still alive - still suffering. That's what people see it as.

It's not about reliving the terrorist event, it's about honoring the people that have been affected by it, and about hearing and seeing what they went through. And there are millions of people who would like to honor them (and their families) in that way. If you don't want to, don't. If you went through it and have a better way, for you, then fine.

There are people that weren't there that would like the opportunity to empathize with the people that were.

[Mr. Klato]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Umm...what experience or qualification does Silverstein have for running historical museums?

Just out of curiosity, I checked the website's donor list, and he is listed as having given at the $5 million level, as a family donation, not as Silverstein Properties, Inc. I see no mention of SPI as a donor.

Like LetsRock said, " It's a freaking bomb site not Mecca!!!!!" He ran the WTC1,WTC2 etc. He knows how to run properties. He can hire someone who can perform the day to day management of the museum. He should have giving all his insurance money to all the families who lost loved ones and were affected by 9/11.

[Fox Terrier]

Originally Posted by plwhit

So why isn't NYC subsidizing this museum if it's going to be such a money maker??

Americans get screwed again....

LOL

So, New Yorkers are not Americans?

[plwhit]

What's the problem?

NYC wants a 9/11 memorial so be it...

But NYC should foot the extravagant bill and yearly costs associated with it.

I don't understand what would cost almost a million dollars a week to maintain...

~ a few jars of dust?

~ some pictures hanging on a wall?

~ some rusted pieces of metal?

~ some flags on poles outside?

A million dollars a week?

Common sense dictates this is another money making scam.....

[plwhit]

Originally Posted by Fox Terrier

LOL

So, New Yorkers are not Americans?

OK, taxpayers instead of Americans, sorry...

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by plwhit

Do we need a museum to remember 9/11? -- Yes

But does anyone else think that it should cost $50 - $60 million dollars a year to operate?

And BTW, it will cost $20 to $25 dollars per person to enter this museum.


Seems some Democrats still think taxpayer money is endless...

Wanting a 9/11 museum is just as stupid as as requesting the millions to operate it.

There should be no museum. The idea is not only fraught with morbidity, but it's silly as hell on it's face.

Enough already with the memorials and commemorations. This country is obsessed with that sh*t to no end.

[Magnolia Bloom]

Originally Posted by FinsterRufus

What you seem to fail to understand is that it's not just about a hole in the ground or a bomb site, it's about a place where people committed extraordinary acts of courage under unimaginable stress, and who are in large part - if they are still alive - still suffering. That's what people see it as.

It's not about reliving the terrorist event, it's about honoring the people that have been affected by it, and about hearing and seeing what they went through. And there are millions of people who would like to honor them (and their families) in that way. If you don't want to, don't. If you went through it and have a better way, for you, then fine.

There are people that weren't there that would like the opportunity to empathize with the people that were.

Until I watched those reciting the names of all who died recited on Sunday, I thought the site should be memorialized as a part of American history. Now I know that it represents our world's history. It is a memorial of good over evil. Of bravery. Of the innocents from all corners of the earth that died at the hands of a small group of men that were the living dead. So many families in so many countries affected.

My mom went to Turkey two months after 9-11. A veiled woman looked at my mom and said "America" and then, with her finger, made a motion of tears from her eyes down her cheek. The world cried for us that day. And with the memorial, travelers visiting the site from all over the world will remember the pain and see the resolve in our multicultural nation.

[steel7]

Originally Posted by Magnolia Bloom

When we traveled, my DH would stop and read historical markers, we'd visit sites like Gettyburg. Andersonville left the most lasting impression on me.

Andersonville National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Maybe more folks should visit our historical sites.

I like history much more now then when i was a pimple faced kid.

[texdav]

It needs to pay for itself really by even chargig more if that is what it takes.