Posted on 07/27/2003 3:54:08 PM PDT by xrp
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:36:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Please forgive me for the nit-pick, but $1.7 billion divided by 8000 yields $212,500 per acre on my calculator. That makes it about $5.13 per square foot which is still on the high side.
Only about 300 yards on the very tip of Vieques was ever used for target practice. Vieques is 21 miles long. The little shelling and bombing that took place was 13 to 16 miles from the nearest residents of Vieques.
No bombing or shelling took place at Roosevelt Roads. Even so, the U.S. Government will spend $300 million to clean up who knows what.
Re-read PAR35's post #59. The hospital, golf course and miles of security fencing and paved streets weren't mentioned, but it's still a pretty good list.
Roosevelt Roads is like a small city all by itself. It has better communications, electric, water and sewer infrastructure than a lot of Puerto Rico.
As far as I'm concerned, Roosevelt Roads is in move-in condition.
Each acre can be subdivided into 8 nice size lots that will sell for around $200,000 each to the wealthy that will flock to Roosevelt Roads in their yachts.
Roosevelt Roads is an $8 to $10 billion dollar property.
The local papers in Puerto Rico have printed studies that peg the loss to their economy, by the base closure, at $1.1 billion.
Every American should visit Puerto Rico at least once, so we never allow our pandering politicians to squander $100's of billions of our tax dollars on a 3rd-world, pesthole, like Puerto Rico, again.
It's obvious you haven't been there and haven't seen it.
The island of Vieques is 21-miles-long. Only a tiny corner of it was ever bombed. The bombing never took place any closer than 16 miles from the nearest residents of Vieques.
The beaches on the Naval base are absolutely pristine. There are approximately 32 miles of waterfront on the U.S. Taxpayer's property on that side of the island.
The U.S. Taxpayers used to own and control a couple miles of the other end of the island, too.
If you don't know the value of that property in U.S. territorial waters, you shouldn't be speaking out-of-turn.
"I have respect for WWII vet, Senator Inhofe, for his loss and sacrifice during the war. But where in the name of sweet Fannie Adams did he get that 1.7 billion number from?"
You should have respect for Senator Inhofe. He knows a hell of a lot more about what he's talking about than, apparently, you do.
Where did you get the impression that the U.S. Taxpayer owned land on Vieques has "been blown up more than Wiley E. Coyote, Esq.?"
Do you have any idea of what the U.S. Taxpayers have spent on the infrastructure on the island of Vieques?
$1.7 billion is an extremely conservative estimate of that property's value.
Do you have any idea of the value of the 11,000 acres and existing U.S. Taxpayer bought and paid for infrastructure on the Naval base at Roosevelt Roads, P.R.?
Were you aware that Congress ordered that property auctioned off and the proceeds of the sale given to the U.S. Taxpayers?
Were you aware that Bush allowed the whole base to be given away for free to the ingrates in Puerto Rico, in one of his recent defense appropriations bills, instead?
Were you aware that the greedy, ingrates on Puerto Rico estimate that the taxes and fees that they will be able to charge federal government agencies and the private sector for the use of that property amount to $4.5 BILLION every year?
Yeah, the greedy, ungrateful, residents of Puerto Rico are crying alright.
All the way to the bank with our money!
'We are the World's eternal suckers' (insert music, please) thanks to our pandering politicians from both parties.
LOL!
They tried that about 6 decades ago and our pandering politicians caved in to the Puerto Rican protesters at that time, too.
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