Half a decade after the planes destroyed the World Trade Center, we finally have a start to the construction of their replacement, the freedom Tower. All the party's involved have agreed to a final design, the T's have been crossed and the I's dotted.... We think. Isn't it ridiculous though? That it took this long to get going on this project. Christ, I mean a movie has come out on the events of 9/11 and we still have a hole in the ground there. George Bush has waged two wars, and is on to his third. Gas has gone from $1.70 a gallon to over $3.50 in some places, and America has gone from victim, to world wide kidnappers, torturers, incinerators of civilian families, and domestic spyers. So much accomplished in so little time. Yet nothing to fill the hole at ground zero. You think that in that 300+ billion dollars we've spent, that a monument of some kind could have been built.