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Posted on 11/16/2009 5:56:32 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.
News that the federal government may buy the nearly empty Thomson Correctional Center and use the maximum-security state prison to house Guantanamo Bay detainees has given people in Thomson hope that things might be about to turn around in this woeful town of 450.
"This town is slowly but surely dying off, and I mean that literally because the people that are retired are dying off and there's no young people coming back in to take their place. There's nothing here to draw them," said Richard Groharing, a 68-year-old retired Florida corrections officer who was born in Thomson, a farming community about 150 miles west of Chicago.
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I know I'd be against it.
They need to talk to the folks in Standish Michigan who were for it and then changed their minds.
I get it these people need and want good jobs, but Lord help us all that there is no bottom line for these folks. God knew what he was saying when he pronounced the world was going to go to hell in a hand basket!
Care to share some of their debate/reasoning?
Thanks....
Isn’t there available room at the SuperMax in Colorado for these animals?
Oh thats right. Putting the “prisoners” in Illinois means a couple thousand new UNION jobs.
I take it there's not much to blow up in those parts.
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