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White House: Gitmo transfers mean jobs (in Illinois)
UPI ^ | Nov. 22, 2009 | UPI

Posted on 11/22/2009 2:40:25 PM PST by SolidWood

THOMSON, Ill., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Thousands of jobs would be created in Illinois if the U.S. government purchases a nearly empty prison there to house terror detainees, a study indicates.

The study, performed by the Obama White House Council of Economic Advisers and obtained by The Chicago Sun-Times, asserted that 2,290 to 2,960 jobs would be created in and around Thomson, Ill., in the first year after its conversion to house some of the prisoners now held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility, the newspaper reported Sunday.

Local residents in the Illinois-Iowa border town would be "good candidates" to fill 1,240 to 1,410 of those jobs, the report indicated.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chicagomafia; culturalsuicide; gitmo; illinois; insanity; jobs; jobsforblood; nationalsuicide; obama; seiu; unions
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To: kcvl

it doesn’t matter how many people oppose the transfer, the demons passed maobamacare when most of their constituants opposed it.


41 posted on 11/22/2009 3:44:13 PM PST by 1st Division guy
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To: cripplecreek
"2,290 to 2,960 jobs"

How many of them will be jobs for criminal defense attorneys, civil rights attorneys, immigration attorneys, etc.?

42 posted on 11/22/2009 4:04:13 PM PST by Fetid Facts (Under Democrats, "The law is a ass--a idiot.")
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To: SolidWood

Get ready for Thomson real estate to increase in value as muzzies start buying it up to be near their brothers in the prison.


43 posted on 11/22/2009 4:24:19 PM PST by ScottinVA (The arrogance of this Congress is staggering. November 2010 can't get here quickly enough.)
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To: SolidWood

Terrorism (or whatever they call it now) as a jobs program.


44 posted on 11/22/2009 4:35:11 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: SolidWood

Trust me, they will not be hiring the town folks...............


45 posted on 11/22/2009 4:45:09 PM PST by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: SolidWood

And how will the citizens of Thomson feel after the first store or cafe is blown up by a suicide bomber or there is a mass shooting by an Islamic terrorist?


46 posted on 11/22/2009 4:59:04 PM PST by Truth29
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To: cripplecreek
Yep along with the SEIU kitchen and laundry staff they will need to take care of these terrorists! You can't have terrorists doing those type jobs in a prison.
47 posted on 11/22/2009 5:56:19 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: SolidWood

For how many prisoners, 10! The spirit of Marie Antoinette Lives! Let them eat cake! Take our crumbs! There are millions out of work and they have the arrogance to tell the American people take what crumbs come to you!


48 posted on 11/22/2009 6:05:36 PM PST by thomas16
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To: SolidWood
White House: Gitmo transfers mean jobs (in Illinois)

All those first responders in Chicago.

49 posted on 11/22/2009 6:22:26 PM PST by bIlluminati (Hope for change in 2010.)
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To: SolidWood

Gitmo North


50 posted on 11/22/2009 6:40:42 PM PST by jch10 (It is an ill wind blowing...)
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To: SolidWood

Random thoughts:

1) Er, wouldn’t these jobs be mostly taxpayer funded government jobs (i.e. not creating private sector wealth)?

2) I truly never thought I’d see the day when a President of the United States would pitch the transfer of a mass murdering terrorist as an economic boon.

3) Aren’t liberals supposed to be all uptight about the prison-industrial complex anyway?

4) Just an aside. IIRC, Plugs Biden once advocated solving the overcrowding problem in many prisons by dismantling the federal penitentiary system. His plan was to convert them into ‘regional zones’ where prisoners from nearby overcrowded state prisons would be housed in (relatively) undercrowded Federal prisons.


51 posted on 11/22/2009 6:44:06 PM PST by DemforBush (Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
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To: DemforBush
Er, wouldn’t these jobs be mostly taxpayer funded government jobs

Yes and they will be reliable Dem voters.

Beefing up the Baraqqi coalition.

52 posted on 11/22/2009 6:46:44 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: RC2
[2960 jobs to help control 200 prisoners? Where do these people come up with this stuff?]

Nuclear decontamination workers to clean up after a dirty bomb?

53 posted on 11/22/2009 7:16:31 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: hattend

“100 to 1 guard to prisoner? Hell, put them all in a hole and give one guy a key to toss food in once a day.”

Pork and bacon only.


54 posted on 11/22/2009 8:43:17 PM PST by Wisconsinlady
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To: Shady
TERRORIST WAR CRIMINALS are being housed in Illinois, how are they going to get to NYC?

How about an Air Force One shuttle, with some low flyovers of Lower Manhattan?

55 posted on 11/22/2009 9:03:45 PM PST by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: crazydad

Yes, and what happened to Ming at the end?

Just sayin.


56 posted on 11/22/2009 9:38:21 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: Red_Devil 232

There is a silver lining to this..if Obama succeeds in becoming dictator, the SEIU guards will likely be as swift as the Nazis and shoot those terrorist fools at dawn and not look back! No graves. Just dump them in the ocean and that will be that.

Unfortunately on the other hand..he will probably try and shoot the rest of us as well. I’ll be ready for them.


57 posted on 11/22/2009 9:43:54 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: SolidWood

A return of the bubonic plague would mean more jobs for physicians.


58 posted on 11/22/2009 10:48:43 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: SolidWood

Not a chance!

200+ inmates and almost 3000 jobs? Unrealistic, even by gummint standards.


59 posted on 11/23/2009 6:44:27 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (* Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration)
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To: Kenny

More Government Jobs means Less Gross Domestic Product unless we can market B.S.


60 posted on 11/23/2009 8:07:24 AM PST by kempster
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