CAPTION.
CREDIT
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum should be a government project, not a money-making venture (“Rich 9/11 Memorial ‘Gougers,’ ” June 19).
If we can’t afford to pay all the sick Ground Zero workers, why should memorial CEO and President Joe Daniels and his group be allowed to make a profit?
Take Daniels down.
Joe Bell
Woburn, Mass.
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Mayor Bloomberg is cutting it to the wire to get the overpriced memorial done by the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
The uproar over a $20 entrance fee to the museum is just another example of Bloomberg’s endless failure and incompetence.
Daniels is being paid almost $400,000 to run a small museum. If $25,000 starting pay was good enough for the NYPD a few years ago, why not start Daniels’ salary there?
Then again, NYPD officers risk their lives and walk beats in the rain, unlike Daniels, who has a cushy gig. So let’s start his salary at $15,000 and give him raises as often as the FDNY and NYPD get them.
Penny Ritz
Manhattan
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Bloomberg seems intent upon transforming the memorial/museum from a solemn place for contemplation and honor into a revenue-generating tourist attraction.
Our elitist billionaire mayor can’t understand this, but regardless of how many millions are spent on the memorial, it will be worthless if it doesn’t come from the heart.
This is a national disgrace. The political and financial profiteering must cease and desist.
Robert Reeg
Stony Point