SYMBOL
Sandy Sandfort
sandfort at mindspring.com
Sun Sep 16 10:08:24 PDT 2001
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.
S a n d y
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