I couldn't help but catch the dig at a free market economy in the last paragraph by the AP. The AP bother to mention if those 4,000 Indian laborers are being forced at gunpoint to work "with no set minimum wage".
Additionally, nice to see the Arabs building some tall buildings that we can knock down in the future.
1 posted on
07/22/2007 6:32:33 AM PDT by
xrp
To: xrp
One well placed airliner............
2 posted on
07/22/2007 6:35:25 AM PDT by
stm
To: xrp
Guess that’s where my $3.00 a gallon for gas money is.
3 posted on
07/22/2007 6:36:44 AM PDT by
sonic109
To: xrp
To: xrp
To: xrp
Really sick. Dubai isn’t an enemy.
To: xrp
“Hey, Taiwan/America/World, mine is bigger.”
12 posted on
07/22/2007 8:09:58 AM PDT by
Dysart
To: xrp
The $1 billion skyscraper is in the heart of downtown Dubai, a 500-acre development area worth $20 billion. Construction, which began just 1,276 days ago, has been frenzied -- at times, one storey rises every three days. They move faster than the New York bureaucracy which has slowed up a much smaller building:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Tower
16 posted on
07/22/2007 2:51:17 PM PDT by
lowbridge
(A Gun A Day Keeps The Government Away)
To: xrp
A monument indeed it will become when technology makes fossil fuels obsolete in the future.
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