Posted on 02/06/2014 5:07:01 AM PST by servo1969
Joe Daniels, President and CEO of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, has announced a $24 mandatory admission fee for the 9/11 Memorial.
It’s a museum, not a movie. It’s a memorial, not a theme park.
What do they charge at Gettysburg? Pearl Harbor?
Salaries at the “non-profit” 9/11 Memorial and Museum are obscene. This allegedly non-profit organization is supposed to be a tribute to 9/11 victims. “It was built to tell the story of 9/11 to future generations about the worst day in American history. It was never intended to be a revenue-generating tourist attraction with a prohibitive budget and entrance fee.”
Daniels’s salary was last reported to be $371,307. He received huge raises for three years running. As far back as 2009, there were no fewer than eleven staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum who each made more than $170,000. Four had salaries higher than $320,000.
What did they do with the billion dollars it took to build this underground museum morgue? There is nothing in the Memorial and Museum that addresses the ideology behind the attack. A billion-dollar memorial to the September 11th attacks on the homeland, and it censors the motive. There is nothing in the Memorial and Museum that addresses the ideology behind the attack. The museum does not properly explain to the visitors that the attacks were committed in the name of Jihad, or Islamic “holy war” against the West.
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At least they’re not charging $9.11 (though wanna bet someone proposed that? thought it’d be “cute”)
The terrorists which the White House Ordered brought into
the USA yesterday through Obama’s “pen” presumably
get in for FREE (to match their free ObamaCARE).
sorry, I don’t need to pay $24 to remember that day. What a pantload.
Unless you're a moslem.
Gettysburg and the USS Arizona Memorial are, of course, maintained by the National Park Service and are paid for by US taxpayers.
A better comparison is the Memorial at Oklahoma City. Admission there is $12. I’d guess that most historic/education/entertainment options in NYC are twice the cost as they are in OKC.
This is almost as sleezy and greedy as the surviving family of MLK.
JUST WOW.
I never in a million years suspected I’d be happy to NOT visit this memorial, but then again there is very little of the changes in the past 10 years that I would have believed if a time traveler were to have warned me...
DISGUSTED.
Make no mistake about it, folks. From the moment those two planes hit the World Trade Center buildings, there were thousands of people in New York City looking at the business opportunity that was presented.
“I don’t need to pay $24 to remember that day..”
You and I don’t; however, what about the young growing up? My point is that WE remember it because we were alive that day. My 7 and 13 year olds only know what I’ve told them and television clips. I’m not saying that it should be free; however, the salary of over $300,000+ is excessive IMHO. Tin Foil Hat time: perhaps the cost is so high to decrease the interest and thereby decreasing the education of that day (we don’t want to offend the muzzies, do we?)
The memorial in Oklahoma City charges $12. If you are ever near OKC it is really worth the visit. $24 seems like a lot, but a parking spot, or a bagel and coffee at a top hotel in NYC costs at least $24.
Turn it over to the National Park Service and it will have the same admission as Gettysburg. But is that what people want?
They should turn it over to the National Park Service:
Muslim rangers could arrest doddering VFW guys pushing walkers.
Perversely appropriate..?
You could not pay me enough to go to this museum to see what the smart set thinks 9/11 was all about.
The last time I was up north the admission to the Great lakes Shipwreck museum at Whitefish Point was $12. Its jointly operated by the state of Michigan and the USFWS.
To take a self guided walk arount the Missouri (near the Arizona memorial) is $25. For $25 you are not allowed to look at anything of interest from the inside (gun turrets, engineering spaces etc. are all blocked off and reserved for the even more expnsive tours ie another $25) Talk about a ripoff. OTO the Arizona memorial tickets are $7.50 which includes a boat ride to the memorial
I'll never be a bigshot .. just an aging carpenter out here in flyover, weeping at his country's degradation.
But give me a life of modest means any day, over the vileness that must live inside such as those you mention.
Your comment put me immediately in mind of the disgraceful % of collaboration in NYC with the British during the Revolution.
And given the fascist-leaning slime the majority there keeps putting in office, it seems that little has changed.
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The Gettysburg Museum (in the visitors center) which includes the Cyclorama, is $12.50. Going to the Eisenhower Farm is another $7.50.
The fact is that it takes a lot of $$$$ to maintain things like battlefields, museums, display ships and the like. Asking the taxpayers, the vast majority of whom will never actually go visit, to foot the bill for those that do isn’t necessarily a right and proper thing to do.
I would gladly pay more to visit the shipwreck museum if it meant losing federal involvement. They have Whitefish point all roped off with no go areas for the wildlife.
I thought users fees were conservative, and taxpayer-funded socialist attractions were liberal?
Bingo....we have a winner!!!! Cigarettes are $15.00 a pack in NYC. If you want to go; pay up, don’t look for the rest of us to subsidize you!!!
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