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...matter what the economic indicators say - particularly as unemployment continues to rise (because labor costs are always the last ones invited back to companies hoping to impress Wall Street with their bottom lines, high unemployment generally outlasts recessions). Summer will likely see GDP growth creep back up above zero, and by fall, third-quarter profits and production may start to look rosy again. At which point companies will start hiring again, and consumers will feel secure again, and by the beginning of the following year the economy should be chugging along again at a modest-but-welcome 3 percent...
...hard to persuade workers to buy your burgers or your shoes when they can get all they want for free. No one who works at ground zero--from cops to construction foremen making $90 an hour overtime--has to pay for anything there. Nonprofits never had much of a presence in Gordon Gecko Land, but with millions pouring in to anyone with "9/11" in his organization's name, they are now the dominant economic force in the Ground Zero District. And even when it comes to charity, the cold rules of New York City bureaucracy and capitalism apply...
...Krewe had secured corporate sponsorship, nonprofit status and fire-fighter support, the city shut down their free-food enterprise. Though OEM officials say the Krewe lacked the proper permits, the Cajuns believe they were sent home because they competed with the new, official provider of free food at ground zero, the Salvation Army...
...white-and-blue ribbons to our lapels to celebrate the victory. But to those who lived that story and now rub up against its shards every day, resolution is nothing more than a mass-marketed myth. Their reality is raw and unending. Fire fighters and police brawl at ground zero. Tales of divorces spawned by Sept. 11 circle around the fire department. Widows squabble with one another over money, and this month one took her own life...
...believe that the days ahead may be both more painful and more precious, is that there is evidence we are willing to do the hard work by choice, not just because we have to. And so the year can end, and the fires go out at last at ground zero, and Liberty Island reopens, and soldiers guarding the airport at Kandahar drape mine tape on tumbleweed for a Christmas tree and raise a huge American flag, inscribed with the names of slain men and women. Our job is by no means finished. But Rudy Giuliani's is, not because...