Posted on 07/21/2005 6:48:47 PM PDT by CarlEOlsoniii
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump (search) is the only person standing between an honest deal to rebuild the aging U.N. headquarters and a massive waste of public money. He told senators so on Thursday. "When can you start?" said one appreciative lawmaker, Sen. Mark Dayton (search), D-Minn. The United Nations says it will cost $1.2 billion to overhaul the 39-story building along New York's East River. No, says the city's highest-profile developer. More like $3 billion, he told senators. This project is no more challenging, he said, when he refurbished the skating rink in Central Park. That was years ago, when New York could not. "This is a bigger version of the Wollman Skating Rink, that's all it is to me. ... I don't want any money. I want nothing," said the star of NBC's "The Apprentice" and author of "Trump: The Art of the Deal." Trump's estimate for the work: $600 million to $700 million. He appealed to members of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (search) subcommittee to let him do it. He would manage the project, and waive his fee.
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How much would it cost to load the whole thing on a barge and dump it at sea?
sure but make sure you rebuild it out of NYC, perferably in Toronto or somewhere....
I want him to build it in the Southern part of Sudan. Let the UN hypocrites see what they have wrought outside their door instead of the other side of the world.
PRay for W and Our Iraq Winning Troops
Why rebuild the U.N. in New York? Hell, I'll pay good money to kick those stupid bastards OUT of this great nation!
LOL ... I was going to suggest they rebuild it somewhere other than the United States, but I see there's one or two others here who share that opinion ...
Yes, let Trump build it. He will get 1/2 done and file Bankruptcy and the UN will never get completed. My vote is YES!!!
exactly... I say, send'em to Nepal or the mountains of Afghanistan
Saw the Trump part of the headline and passed on by.
Then, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted MARK DAYTON!
Lord, I apologize for my state sending Mark Dayton to the US Senate.
And be with 'W' and our troops.
Amen.
Call these guys:
http://www.dem-tech.com/
Never trust a man with a sorry combover and a Dye job from a bottle of red ink.
You have nothing to be TRULY sorry for...
My brethren have sent Kennedy and Kerry for a combined 65 years! !
God forgive...
We'll consider this ten years after his latest bankruptcy.
It would be a lot cheaper if they built it elsewhere. Maybe Mugabe can give them a farm to use.
Controlled Demolition, Inc. could "renovate" it properly for a lot less than $300 million.
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