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PUERTO RICO: Engineers At Base Say Navy Will Shutter All Ceiba Facilities (4,000 JOBS LOST!)
The San Juan Star
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003
| BY EVA LLORENS VELEZ
Posted on 03/12/2003 4:13:40 PM PST by 4Freedom
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This is great news America! Over 4,000 jobs and $400 MILLION U.S. TAXPAYER'S DOLLARS each year are coming home!!!
Let's keep this rolling. There are 1,000s more federal and private sector jobs and BILLIONS more U.S. Taxpayer's dollars to bring home from Puerto Rico!
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:13:40 PM PST
by
4Freedom
To: 4Freedom
After certifying the Navy will officially leave the Vieques range in May, Adm. Robert Natter, chief of the Atlantic Fleet, recommended Roosevelt Roads be shut down entirely.In other words, since the Riqueños objected to military tests, we're just gonna pack up and leave. What's that you say, PR? Losing jobs? No sailors to buy your goods? Too bad. You can enjoy your moral so-called superiority in the unemployment line.
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:23:42 PM PST
by
petuniasevan
(cogito, ergo spud: I think, therefore I yam...)
To: 4Freedom
This is just a crying shame. </sarcasm>
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:26:44 PM PST
by
Earl B.
To: petuniasevan
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
Iron men,
Swift ships.
GO NAVY!
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:29:10 PM PST
by
TheJollyRoger
(George W. Bush for president in 2004....AGAIN!)
To: 4Freedom
If they don't want the bombing range, then they shouldn't mind us closing down these other facilities either.
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:30:09 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
(Yes, there is sexual tension between Sammy & Frodo.)
To: petuniasevan
Don't ya just love it, and give those officers a big high-5 for standing for the right thing to do.Too bad PR, eat sand.
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:34:01 PM PST
by
lefty4w
(Right takes might..)
To: petuniasevan
Maybe they should call Rev's. Al and Jessie, Martin and Robert Jr. for support after the Navy says bye-bye.
To: petuniasevan
The street corners are going to be crowded with 4,000 more street vendors selling bottles of water, donuts and avocados.
Somebody should have told them to be careful what they wish for. The U.S. Taxpayers just might give it to them.
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:45:20 PM PST
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: Earl B.
Yeah, I think Admiral Natter was all broken up about it, too. ;^)
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:46:52 PM PST
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: Jhoffa_
Somebody should have told the little Marxists about unintended consequences.
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:48:14 PM PST
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: 4Freedom
I think Turkey & France are about to get some instruction in that area..
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:49:21 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
(Yes, there is sexual tension between Sammy & Frodo.)
To: 4Freedom
Three instrumentation engineers - Juan Lugo, Angel Ramos and Miguel Sierra - disagreed with Vieques Commissioner Juan Fernandez and Ceiba Mayor Antonio Cruz, who maintained the base will not be shut down because the Navy is investing money to restore and purchase equipment for the facility. The surest sign that the military is shutting down a base is a massive construction spree. Sounds like Roosy Roads is history.
To: Jhoffa_; lefty4w; bigfootbob
Has anybody seen a copy of National Geographic this month? Evidently, one of their writers went to Puerto Rico and told some of the truth about what he saw.
The article has Puerto Rico's politicians and Tourism Board fit to be tied.
LOL!
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posted on
03/12/2003 4:59:55 PM PST
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: 4Freedom
See Ya!
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posted on
03/12/2003 5:03:43 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Sua Sponte)
To: AlaskaErik
I hope they shut down Fort Buchanan and Camp Santiago next.
They can bring all those thousands of jobs and all those hundreds of millions of dollars home, too.
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posted on
03/12/2003 5:05:50 PM PST
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: 4Freedom
It'll be harder to argue that the United States is craving after empire if we pull out of Puerto Rico.
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posted on
03/12/2003 5:06:14 PM PST
by
JoeSchem
To: 4Freedom
please give me a hint?
To: Earl B.; petuniasevan; All
Anybody see an article about Puerto Rico in National Geographic this month?
It must have been truthful, because their politicians didn't like it. ;^)
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posted on
03/12/2003 5:08:25 PM PST
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: TADSLOS
Wouldn't want to be ya!
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posted on
03/12/2003 5:09:29 PM PST
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: 4Freedom
Isn't it time to cut the umbilical cord, the apron strings, whatever, and let PR go off on its own? They apparently feel that they are ready for this, kicking the Navy off that island, and taking control of their own lives. More power to them!
Classic "cut off your nose to spite your face" moment!!
Maybe they could take the more virulent Hollywood pukes off our hands and set up a little Hollywood" for themselves to bring in some money. Kill two birds with one stone.....
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