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

[4Freedom]

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!

[petuniasevan]

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.

[Earl B.]

This is just a crying shame. </sarcasm>

[TheJollyRoger]

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

Iron men,
Swift ships.
GO NAVY!

[Jhoffa_]

If they don't want the bombing range, then they shouldn't mind us closing down these other facilities either.

[lefty4w]

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.

[bigfootbob]

Maybe they should call Rev's. Al and Jessie, Martin and Robert Jr. for support after the Navy says bye-bye.

[4Freedom]

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.

[4Freedom]

Yeah, I think Admiral Natter was all broken up about it, too. ;^)

[4Freedom]

Somebody should have told the little Marxists about unintended consequences.

[Jhoffa_]

I think Turkey & France are about to get some instruction in that area..

[AlaskaErik]

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.

[4Freedom]

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!

[TADSLOS]

See Ya!

[4Freedom]

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.

[JoeSchem]

It'll be harder to argue that the United States is craving after empire if we pull out of Puerto Rico.

[grammymoon]

please give me a hint?

[4Freedom]

Anybody see an article about Puerto Rico in National Geographic this month?

It must have been truthful, because their politicians didn't like it. ;^)

[4Freedom]

Wouldn't want to be ya!

[SpinyNorman]

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.....