Yes I do. The GOP two house majority helped Slick Willie cut the fleet. Remember this that they were the majority for 6 of Clinton's 8 years and 6 of W's as well. There are those in either party who would do it. Our military has been on a bad downward spiral since Poppy Bush was in office. Where was Johnny?
I made a trip back to NORVA in 2002. My one and only trip back since 1980 when I got out of the Navy. When I was in I lived in Oceanview for a year. It was basically an off base military community. When I went back in 2002 it was gone. I mean about 25 blocks of houses and apartments gone. It looked like a ghost town. The only apartment building still standing was the one I lived at in 1980 across from where a Best Western also gone once was. Johnny and Barry are two sides of the same coin.
I have an idea as to why the votes for Obama were high there but I'll not go into that here. I bet Obama also carried Portsmouth by about 90% Most of the military stationed in Tidewater vote in their home state.
I’ll tell you what happened to that area of houses... Norfolk decided it wanted them for “redevelopment”. They tore it all down and built expensive condos.