SYMBOL

[Sandy Sandfort]

Tim wrote:

> * Let the builders pay _all_ costs for a structure; taxpayers should not
> "bail out" either the insurance industry or the builders (or the
> airlines, on a different note)

Of course, that should go without saying.  Having said that, though, they
will be built.

> * I think the notion of a "symbol" is silly.

Reasonable minds may differ.

> * Using any coerced funding (taxes, bailouts, subsidies) to rebuld a
> gaudy and dangerous bauble, one that employees don't even feel
> comfortable working in, is not rational.

Who has suggested otherwise?

> In any case, let the insurers and builders do it if they want.

Now you've got it.

> Antheaps are for ants.

Ants do not build cloud piercing towers of adamantine steel and glass, the
mind of man does.  YMMV.


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