The State Ground Zero is Grounds for Shame and a Sad Commentary on the Condition of our State

Ground Zero - 60 Minutes - CBS News

We should be ashamed.

There is no excuse.

As the report said, they built the Empire State Building in a year in the middle of the Great Depression.

We went to the Moon in a decade.

When the ten year anniversary of 9/11 rolls around we'll be lucky if there's anything more than a big hole of dirt.

This is an unfortunate sign and symbol of the decay that has set in in this country.  We have not headed warnings from the founders about the corrupting influences of corporate power and monied interests.  We have ignored words of caution from the likes of Eisenhower ("beware the military-industrial complex") and MLK ("A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.") and wise political scientists (Paul Kennedy's "Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" of two decades ago warned of US "imperial overstretch).  Comparisons with the Roman Empire are current and apt.

We not only don't make things of substance much anymore, it also seems we can't build anything anymore.  Numerous countries build new skyscrapers while we can't even get our act together at an important site like this.

We are doomed and the American Dream will die a horrible death if we don't turn this ship around.