NYC organization struggles to preserve ‘Tribute in Light’ memorial

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Want to really give a tribute to the fallen of 9/11 [ including fallen military of 2 wars] go to almost any place that rents movies [its on Netflix] and get the movie LOOSE CHANGE 9/11
An American Coup . Watch and wonder are a couple of lights shining upward at the sky really a proper Tribute to the fallen.

Will and Jada Always! When it's good you know it.

The lights are a memorial tribute, much better then a building, a park or a reflecting pond. The lights say, I'm still here with you and you need only to look to the night sky to know I'm there.
We will Never Forget.

Excuse me, did everyone forget or perhaps temporarily overlooked the billions (you read it correctly BILLIONS) of dollars Americans and countries around the world donated to the victims of 9/11 and provided assistance to restore the states devastated by this disaster? Some of you don't even realize that had it not been for your fellow Americans and the generosity of other countries we may not be where we are today! Lets not forget that 9/11 set the USA on its path to a recession. Lets see ENRON (October 2011) costed the USA trillions of dollars and many hardworking folks lost their retirement benefits. Those unlawful transactions probably contributed 80% to the reason why we faced a recession. Three years following 9/11 this country was headed for a depression, ENRON brought G.W. Bush's term in like a lion and Bernie Madoff ended it with a lion's roar...why is it that whenever my party is in office we move closer to a recession and/or depression? I'll need to ponder that after I finish this comment...LOL. By the time G.W. Bush left office we were well into the beginning phase of a "great Depression (the signs were visible, our markets were down, folks began losing their job (especially if you worked on a government contract), Americans weren't spending because of market fears, the housing boom had ended. We were involved in two wars, we had the Enron scandal then the Madoff scandal which eliminated billions of folks retirement money. Not to mention we lost a few key allies because of false statements or vicious lies to get support. By 2007, the housing bubble was in full swing, but as usual we didn't pay any attention until it was too late. By then, we were faced with the "subprime mortage which I consider a banking scheme" that to present day has caused the most significant risk to our economy. Ripple effect is the number of families that lost their home to foreclosure, homelessness communities on the rise (including those in the so called "tent communities,") and more lay-offs! In 2011, we need to be more responsible in monitoring where are contributions for causes actually end up. Since Rumsfield announced on September 10, 2001 that $2.3 TRILLION dollars in funds had gone "MISSING" he should find those missing funds and provide these services on behalf of the American people. How ironic is that...Rumsfield announces $2.3 TRILLION missing dollars on the eve of 9/11?????

Rick Perry will most likely let more high-rise buildings hit some jets all the while he's polishing his boots!

Is George Dubya Dumya Bush going to read a children's book at the 9/11 Memorial? Ask him why Building #7 imploded and collapsed all by itself!

our government should stop paying afganistan,iraq,and pakistan for not helpin fight the war

well the mayor of NY what his name Blownutts want to built a mosque on the site, to remember the people killed there ?

Come on New Yorkers rough times are here for along time but if eveveryone gives just the price of that extra cup of morrning coffee This can go on for years Hy Maxwell House how about starting off This is New York I no longer live in the great state (wish Inever left) These people faced the fight of a life time GIVE ALREADY

Keep these light's!

I think the lights should be on every night. Not just one day out of the year and how does cost hundreds of thousands dollars to setup lights for one night....

Pay tribute by stopping all aid to any Muslim country and just let them kill each other like they been doing for centuries..with the money we save lets drill for our own oil build more refineries that create jobs and get these disgusting subhumans out of our lives once and for all

If America really wanted a fitting tribute to the 9/11 victims... put Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell in prison.

I am Sadness .I wish capture and who idea 9/11. Go to jail.

The usual ninnies are online today with the usual asinine suggestions, including the always-popular demand that we eliminate foreign aid, because that way we can pay for EVERYTHING.

"Hey, you LIBTARDS! quit spending all our money on other countries, and use that money here at home--although only use it for big, patriotic light shows--we don't want to see one PENNY of that money going to jobless benefits or infant nutrition or Head Start or teachers' salaries or anything communistic like that."

Gah. The stupidity is lethal.

In fact, US foreign aid in all forms adds up to a hair under 1% of our national budget. It pays for itself in goodwill, the exchange of vital information, and--when it is used to help victims of famine and warfare--as a minimal expression of our national humanity (it is only appropriate that the expression is minimal, since our national humanity is pretty minimal, too, as you can see by the strident demands that we stop helping starving and dying people in other countries, RIGHT THIS MINUTE).

If you want to cut a bloated, ugly, pointless budget, why not start with the US military? By the most conservative estimates, it gobbles up 17-20% of the national budget; but that's misleading. Once you start counting the indirect subsidies--the portion of other areas of the national budget, like the Department of Energy, that in fact benefit the military--it consumes between 45 and 54%.

In short, the military-industrial complex that Ike warned us about nearly 60 years ago is destroying us economically as well as culturally and politically, with a cost to US taxpayers that roughly equals the military spending of all the other countries on the earth put together.

So if you want your patriotic light show, forget about grabbing that money back from starving Somalian children, and ask the Pentagon. They can spare it.

Why so expensive to operate? Aren't they using FREE solar power, and why aren't they using CFL's or LEDs?

If you REALLY want a fitting tribute to the 9/11 victims, put Bush and Cheney in prison.

These light run up a big electric bill that helps the Saudis profit from fuel sales - it was 19 Saudis on the 911 planes & this is how we punish them.

After 911 the Bushstapo created the biggest government in history , the most laws, & the biggest bureacracry in history & squandered ONE TRILLION DOLLAR$ & more in Iraq & broght down the middle class.