St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church

As the Idiocracy running the city of New York debates whether to throw a party or not over the building of a monument to the religious beliefs of those who killed so many on 9/11, what about the little Christian Church that was destroyed on that day? Has any Imam or politician anywhere spoken up to question the delay in rebuilding this Church? Nine years for permission to rebuild seems to me to be slow even for the money-grubbing, thoughtless bureaucrats in New York and New Jersey. But, hey, that's just my Midwestern opinion: I'm not sophisticated like those elites.

[Photo Courtesy of New York Times]

The plans for rebuilding the World Trade Center complex include building a new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church quite close to the original location.^[1] The church will again house a worshipping congregation. A museum will also be built for the projected large influx of visitors that will come to the site.

On July 23, 2008, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reached a deal with the leaders of the church for the Port Authority to acquire the 1,200-square-foot (110 m²) lot that the church had occupied for $20 million. $10 million is coming from the Port Authority and $10 million is coming from JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Wikipedia)

[note: JP Morgan was given $25 billion in bailout money].

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a tax supported government agency. So in essence the taxpayers of New York and New Jersey will pony up $10 million for the replacement of this Church and the taxpayers in the rest of the nation will pony up the other $10 million. Don't forget, JP Morgan Chase took billions in bail out tax money not long ago. And if reports are true they haven't spent any of it on rebuilding this Church.

What I would like to know is who has stopped the Saudi Government from rebuilding this Church? Oh! "There is no Saudi money for this honorable task," you say. I didn't know that. I just assumed since it was Saudi nationals who destroyed it the so-called civilized Muslims in Arabia would have the decency to chip in to rebuild it. Shows you what I know.

I need to get out more often.