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Puerto Rico governor says U.S. shouldn't close Vieques base
AP
| 1/16/03
| RICARDO ZUNIGA
Posted on 01/16/2003 1:50:07 PM PST by kattracks
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posted on
01/16/2003 1:50:08 PM PST
by
kattracks
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posted on
01/16/2003 1:51:09 PM PST
by
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To: kattracks
LOL!!!
Reaping what is sowed.
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posted on
01/16/2003 1:52:30 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
To: kattracks
Bwahahahahaha!!!
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posted on
01/16/2003 1:54:51 PM PST
by
wideawake
To: kattracks
Tough sh** Sila, the USA needs to cut the rope and let this hate America territory float away.
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posted on
01/16/2003 1:55:07 PM PST
by
boomop1
To: kattracks
Too damn bad. They want us off their island but they want us to keep sending them money? If they get their way, who's the sucker?
To: kattracks
"The people of Puerto Rico don't have any interest in the closing of the Roosevelt Roads base," Calderon said. "The government of Puerto Rico is interested in that base staying in Puerto Rico, for all the economic benefits."What a hoot! Welfare recipients don't have any interest in working, but they want money!
We 14 handicappers don't have any interest in practicing or talent, but we want to play the tour.
We amateurs don't have any interest in practicing, but we want to play Mozart like Alicia de la Rocha.
Some airlines don't care about customer service, but they want passengers.
Guess Calderon doesn't understand the meaning of quid pro quo
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posted on
01/16/2003 1:56:35 PM PST
by
jammer
(We are doing to ourselves what Bin Laden could only dream of doing.)
To: kattracks; Willie Green
"Puerto Rico's government hopes the U.S. Navy won't close its Roosevelt Roads Naval Station on Vieques Island after it halts bombing exercises there in May, the U.S. territory's governor said. Gov. Sila Calderon, who had pressed for a halt to the training, said Wednesday that her government will lobby for the base to remain open. With some 4,800 employees and temporary contractors, Roosevelt Roads is one of Puerto Rico's largest employers."
You should have thought of all of those jobs back when you were siding with the protestors against our using that base for naval practice.
No naval practice means no need for a naval base there, genius...
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posted on
01/16/2003 1:58:54 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: kattracks
Gov. Sila Calderon, who had pressed for a halt to the training, said Wednesday that her government will lobby for the base to remain open. So how about we stop the training and just keep the people on the payroll and they can sit around and drink coffee and play cards all day?
Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
To: kattracks
Puerto Rico is interested in that base staying in Puerto Rico, for all the economic benefits.Tough crap. Do a cost-benefit analysis now, you enviro-commie!!! What's worse, the Dept of the Interior nazis are gonna take it over, and NOBODY will be able to go there.
To: kattracks
You see, Sila, this is how it works. We want something from you, i.e. in this case, using Vieques for fire excercises. In exchange for that, we pump many Yankee dollars into your otherwise non-existent economy.
This is a well known process sometimes known as "we'll scratch your back, quid pro quo" etc. If we simply hand over money for nothing that would be welfare and I know you would never allow that.
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posted on
01/16/2003 2:00:21 PM PST
by
Let's Roll
(Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.)
To: kattracks
ROFLOL!!! Figured this was going to happen. He gets what he wants and doesn't like it!
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posted on
01/16/2003 2:02:46 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004)
To: boomop1
Unfortunely there are idiots all over the place, at times I
feel that the welfare state set up for Puerto Rico, took so much from us.
Like our ability to stand for something.
As a Puerto Rican I have a deep resentment not only of my compatriots behabing in this manner, but it is similar to behavior expressed by other people supported and protected by the United States who will the turn around spit on the United States while demanding that the dollars don't stop.
To: kattracks
PR could always rent out the base to some other superpower. Oh, I forgot, we're the only superpower now!
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posted on
01/16/2003 2:05:40 PM PST
by
Procyon
To: kattracks
Once the Navy leaves Vieques, all operations at Roosevelt Roads associated with Vieques will be discontinued, Navy officials have said. Adm. Robert Natter, commander of the Atlantic Fleet, went further last week, saying: "Without Vieques there is no way I need the Navy facilities at Roosevelt Roads -- none."What? Didn't Al Sharpton and the other liberals explain to the people of PR that there would be no need for a base once the training grounds were closed? Why would we need one. We can save that $300 million or give it to the next island who agrees to host a trainging range.
To: kattracks
We will just make up their 'loss' by increasing the amount of aid/welfare we send them. In the end the US taxpayer will not be better off.
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posted on
01/16/2003 2:08:44 PM PST
by
Karsus
(TrueFacts=GOOD, GoodFacts=BAD)
To: kattracks
Why do I feel a warm feeling of amusement after reading your post? Payback's a MF'er.
Of course with the ascension of Hildebeast to the Armed Services committee, and her interest in PR nationalists, it may not be so easy for the Navy to tell them eat sh*t.
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posted on
01/16/2003 2:09:57 PM PST
by
x1stcav
(HooAhh!!!)
To: VaBthang4
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She's kidding, right? Stop your live-fire exercises, but keep pumping millions of dollars into our economy?
What do you bet the (brighter) government of some small, poor island nearby calls the Pentagon pronto and offers up their island as a bombing range (if the jobs come along with it)?
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posted on
01/16/2003 2:10:00 PM PST
by
Earl B.
To: Support Free Republic
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"I bet those Puerto Ricans never saw it comin'."
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posted on
01/16/2003 2:14:40 PM PST
by
Earl B.
To: Karsus
If this were the case, the governor wouldn't be so worried.
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