The Definition of Big Brass Balls

What is the definition of big brass balls?  Chutzpah?  Nerve?

Let’s say you own a building or three.  You’re not making what you feel is enough on the buildings so you starting talking to some `friends’ who can help you out.  Your friends guarantee they’ll take out the buildings in a way that’s undetectable so you can collect the insurance.  A deal is made.

You contact your insurance company about doubling the insurance, knowing that you’ll be able to collect double the benefits a few months down the road when your buildings happen to be rendered uninhabitable.

Your friends come through, although sloppily.  A news camera catches you yelling at them because they only took out two buildings and you order them to take down the third.

Still, the insurance pays.

Time goes on and you’re having trouble getting the buildings rebuilt.  What do you do?  Ask the government for a handout.

Now that’s big brass balls.

Let me now put a face on this story: Larry Silverstein, the owner of the only three steel-structured buildings ever to fall due to fire; otherwise known as World Trade Center North, South, and Seven.

Larry Silverstein is asking for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the government entity that owns the site, to take on more of the risk of the project.

Larry Silverstein is not human.  He must be some sort of physical manifestation of pure greed.