Rehctub
I am not sure why you posted this here as it is way of topic. However you may like to look at the tax structure and ask how is it that some are able to accumulate billions and stash them in tax havens.

The issue for me is very simple. All countries tax systems are based on the middle class recycling their income, discretionary, or fixed expenses. If we continue to shift the tax burden from the asset accumulators, and onto consumers, whilst introducing policies that automate or outsource a greater proportion of the economy that employs those very same consumers,then we are headed for something that looks a lot like the nineteenth century.

So the question is why exactly do the asset accumulators think this would be good for them.
Surly a world that has a solid middle class is something that benefits us all.

Chris

And my final word on this thread goes to load mouth

There may have been some earthquake type damage to tower 7 and all the other buildings in the area. However it came down in 7 second, which if you watch how controlled demolition works, that use explosives, it looked exactly the same.

As for why that one, perhaps you might like to ask what those offices were being used for, to figure that one out.

You may also want to wonder why the building that was built to be the HQ of emergency services for the area, so was masivly over enginered fell down, when buildings 3,4,5,6, which were not built to the same standard did not.
Chris

@Armchair Critic: "With that much weight and speed I think its reasonable to think that the planes went through that outer casing unimpeded...."

Well of course AC, I agree. Physics and engineering is, well, Physics and engineering. :-)

There is another possibility people 'could' apply to what happened without recourse to a Uni Degree in Science or Engineering.

They could open their eyes and look at the planes going through that outer casing unimpeded. :-)

Another little historical factoid that may help future discussions. Both Osama Bin Laden and Mohammed Atta studied 'engineering' at University. Atta went further as he had a specific interest in tall buildings. Atta was admitted into the very selective architecture program during his senior year. In 1990, Atta graduated with a degree in architecture.

At this time, and decades before the WTC building designs were in every Architecture Degree Course and often in Engineering courses as well. This was because they were a unique modern design with numerous advantages, as such the topic was academically highly relevant.

When Atta first took his idea to Bin Laden, because Osama was an Engineer himself, and not an uneducated tribal idiot, it was favourably looked upon, and then funded.

The rest as they say is history. It was a Physics and Engineering experiment basically. Theoretically the towers should have been essentially permanently 'destroyed' by a jetliner crashing into them at the top. But the result far outweighed their expectations.

That's why Science does experiments and cranks super-computer models.

At present the world is basically doing a 9/11 style real life experiment - could increasing GHGs and ongoing destruction of forests and production of cement lead to a unlivable climate and potential starvation for human and animal life on the planet.

Time will tell, because some experiments take longer than others. :-)

Latest Poll from America. Trump leading in marginal States and Hillary Clinton collapses in a heap during the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
Around the world the media has been condemning Trump .The people who matter are the people of America and they are gradually coming to realise that life under Clinton would become more and more dangerous with more Muslims being invited in by Clinton and more blacks killed than in the heyday of the KKK.

Looking forward to seeing Trump carve Hillary up today...

Well, I think this about sums up the debate:

http://goo.gl/eQhOj2