Build It Now gets Coverage!
What a day. Great weather and a great turnout. The media showed in full force and yours truly made it on to Channel 7 Eyewitness News.
After getting over the fact how old I looked I took a step back to see what the general mood was amongst the rank and file. This crowd of big burly fellows were extremely well behaved. In fact they looked very concerned almost scared of what this very unstable economy of ours is going. When I spoke of local leadership they were no words of frustration or malice but more of pleading to get things moving.
I have been in construction for 30 years and to be honest I expected some rowdyness or at the very least some vulgarity but to my surprise it was more like shell-shock. That look a soldier gets after a battle makes him see and do things he thought he would never do. Alot of these fellows are at the end of their finacial rope and they need a lifeline and a project such as the one Ground Zero could provide would do the trick.
There was talk of “we are all around the world fixing and building other nations but here at home we can’t even get our own act together to fix something that to this day haunts us” Another very telling sign was one that stated ( Delay means Defeat) How can we truly win these wars we are fighting if we cannot heal on our own shores?
Working in surrounding buildings we get a great overview of exactly what’s going on in Ground Zero and from the looks of it not much. Hopefully this was not some political showpiece for the local pols who turned out in real force.
Gary Barbar the head of the Building Trades was very effective in his MC’ ing of the event. We had congressman King, Meeks, Weiner, council speaker Christine Quinn along with councilman Dan Halloran and 2 people which I never thought would share a stage together Larry Silverstein from Silverstein Properties owner of the project and Chris Ward the head of the Port Authority neither spoke but it was a start. Lets see if this bold action recieves any positive reaction the blue collar workers of this city could definately use the jobs and as everyone knows when construction workers are busy so is everyone. We alone could jump start an entire economy with our tastes for the big ticket items ( Houses, Cars, vacations and nice resturants)
I will stay on this story because it is close to my heart and my wallet good luck my fellow patriots.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx7UJrIMe-s
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