User blog comment:Testxyz/10/@comment-1251488-20140423125114/@comment-75.36.142.162-20140428123611

Look at the wikipedia pages on  The Statue of Liberty  and   The Washington Monument  (particularly the fundraising parts of those subjects).

Columbia, in not even the furthest demented fantasy would have been funded with more than a pittance by the United States Government. Not in any of those infinite  infinite universes could it be so. Booker and Elizabeth would first be riding unicorns and fighting Power Armor equipt Hello Kitties in the "Purple Universe" long before the fantasy could get that unlikely.  Infinite Improbability.