The latest TIME points to problems associated with rebuilding at New York?s Ground Zero:
The 16-acre site is a tangle of more than 100 contractors and subcontractors answering to 19 public agencies ? a sorry pageant of feuding bureaucrats, shady contractors, litigious developers and overzealous regulators.
The article offers no solution but hints that Americans could learn some lessons from the Chinese, whose ?conscript labor and forced relocations? have helped that country build new structures quickly for the Summer Olympics.
It?s unfortunate that writer Nathan Thornburgh mentions nothing about another option, getting rid of the government rules that lead to ?feuding bureaucrats,? ?overzealous regulators,? and oversight by 19 public agencies.
