Puerto Ricans Lament Loss of Vieques Dollars (CYA SUCKERS! Alert)

Fox News Dot Com ^ | 7/27/2003 | Fox News

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MIAMI

[longjack]

Gehen lbssand

That's not really understandable. Go lb (abbr. of pound) sand.

"Geh' mal Sand hammern", would be a literal translation, but I've never heard that expression in German.

The old german standby for this situation is "leck mich mal", [K*ss my *ss]. That covers most bases.

longjack

[kabar]

I believe there is a movement afoot to convert the land to a national park/preserve to protect the environment rather than turn it over to developers. This will pit the Bobby Kennedy Jr. types against the crass developers. How sweet it is.

[Lockbar]

Sell Puerto Rico to Castro for $15.00. They can get a nice taste of "liberalism".

[JRandomFreeper]

Sell it as a lead mine. It's been seeded.

/john

[You Dirty Rats]

"Unanticipated consequences??"

That would be very funny if it wasn't for the fact that real people have lost good jobs because of lame political posturing by self-important gasbags.

[river rat]

You just got to love it, when leftists finally realize they've screwed up.....BIG TIME!

Even the youngest child knows, they shouldn't crap in their Easter Basket...

Semper Fi

[vger]

Open up Puerto Rico as an immigration point for Haitians.

[SauronOfMordor]

I don't understand why the Navy didn't just exercise eminent domain, condemn the rest of the little island, pay off the people, kick 'em off, and make the whole island a navy base/firing range

[hellinahandcart]

It's not the price of the real estate, it's what it will be worth after Puerto Rico turns it into a swanky beach resort.

[Poohbah]

I don't understand why the Navy didn't just exercise eminent domain, condemn the rest of the little island, pay off the people, kick 'em off, and make the whole island a navy base/firing range

That "little island" ain't so little, and there's been some recent moves towards building a resort complex. Eminent domain has to pay markey prices.

The Navy does NOT have enough money to buy an entire island unless they drop other, more necessary, expenditures.

[Bob J]

Agreed. I say we dump Puerto Rico. Once the politicians thumbed their collective noses at the US and jumped on the bandwagon just to grab a few local votes, it's time we parted ways. Without Vieques, there is little strategic value left and anything else we need we can buy at about 1/10th the cost we're paying now.

All we need now is a pol willing to write up the bill!

[lilylangtree]

My taxpaying heart is just downright bleeding. NOT!

[Salgak]

He's talking about the value of Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, not the value of Vieques Range.

A fully-developed port with accompanying industrial base.. . .

[fourdeuce82d]

we ought to just offer it back to Spain.

Long as that means the residents are no longer american citizens, eligible for my tax dollars, I say great.

[Gringo1]

Hey, he just wanted to know how to say Mother*fuc*ers in spanish.

[PAR35]

"Naval Station Roosevelt Roads has an 11,000-foot runway, nine piers, a water treatment plant, four sewage treatment plants, 110 miles of road, miles of oceanfront, 1,340 buildings and approximately 194,000 square miles of ocean for naval exercises. "

It would probably cost a billion just to prepare the environmental impact statements if you wanted to replicate improvements.

[tlb]

Good analysis but I believe they are looking at the improved potential value for the land after the resort hotels are built on the sites. Not knowing the cost of a proper cleanup of the ordinance I don't know if this is truely economic reality or not.

I don't recall if it was ever proven but it had been alleged during the controversey that land speculators and developers were the finaincial force behind the politicians and demonstrators.