Ok, I’m a single male living in suburban Baltimore, I have no kids, work a 40 hour blue collar week (at an airport, no less) and make $35K. My question is…Looking past all the horror of the attack on NY and D.C., how is the non-existance (until a new one is built, I presume) of the WTC going to affect my daily life?
I think your post would have been better suited to MPSIMS.
But all the answers you might get will be opinions so maybe IMHO.
But it is a fair GQ also.
Assuming your job is related to the airlines–if they cut back across the board, say 20% or more, your job could be in jeopardy.
Do you have a retirement plan at your job? Perhaps you may see its value plunge even more than it has so far the last year and a half. The economy certainly won’t receive a boost from the bombing.
Read your reply, samclem, and fortunately, I don’t work for an airline, I work strictly with private and corporate aircraft. I’m not really worried about my job, but just curious about exactily what goes on inside the towers and now that they’re gone, how will that affect me on a daily basis.
The economy probably will receive a boost from the bombing.
It’s macabre, but the US response to tragedy will be to spend a lot of money. There’ll be the insurance money for all the material and lives lost; there’ll be new construction to replace and to repair the old; there’ll be disaster funds covering miscellaneous expenses; there’ll be the extra paychecks from all the labor recovering from the tragedy.
More than that, the American response to the tragedy as far as daily lives go will probably be an excessive normalcy: people who fly somewhere to prove that terrorists can’t scare them; people who buy stocks imagining that a good trading day will show the terrorists that you can’t keep the USA down; people shopping for luxuries because of a sudden perception that life is short; people going ahead with plans that were lukewarm before, but are suddenly more important because we’re more brave after this. There’ll be a certain determination among Americans to live their lives as normal just to prove that their lives haven’t been destroyed.