The billion-dollar gravestone

The billion-dollar gravestone | Salon.com : "Instead of being a testament to the dead, the hubristic 9/11 memorial will remind viewers of the arrogant folly of Bush's America.

May 20, 2006 | Recently, a number -- 1 billion -- in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. According to a report commissioned by the foundation charged with building Reflecting Absence, the memorial to the dead in the attack on the World Trade Center, its projected cost is now estimated at about a billion dollars and still rising. According to Oliver Burkeman of the British Guardian, 'Taking inflation into account, $1bn would be more than a quarter of the original cost of the twin towers that were destroyed in 2001.'"

(Via Salon.)