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Boston's Big Dig took two decades to build; the far more ambitious Hoover Dam, Maddow and company love, took four.

With 9/11 just around the corner, these specs from the World Trade Center speak volumes as to where we have come down to:

Groundbreaking for the World Trade Center took place on August 5, 1966. The North Tower was completed in December 1972 and the South Tower was finished in July 1973. The construction project involved excavating a large amount of material, which was later used as landfill to build Battery Park City on the west side of Lower Manhattan. The cost for the construction was $400 million ($2,169,167,354 in 2011 dollars).
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Done in six years. They've been building the replacement "memorial" for eleven years and still aren't done.

$2.2 billion in construction cost. I wonder how many jobs, temporary during construction and permanent once the buildings opened, that money provided? nobama's latest "jobs" scam is going to cost 2000 times that amount. I'd bet money Porkulus II won't create 10% of the jobs the WTC created.