Thursday, April 01, 2004

PR:: Leftist nihilists 'activists' trash their economy

The proud Boricua 'activistas' should be required to explain the nonexistence of their plan for replacing the thousands of jobs and billions of dollars lost to their fellow Borinquenas on their insistence.

...While they are at it, why not also apologize to the dozens of people who are now jobless on St. Croix because of their latest leftist anti-American whinegasm.

Without the horrid yanqui dollar they'd still be up a babbling brook in El Yunque.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - After 60 years, the U.S. Navy yesterday officially closed its sprawling Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in eastern Puerto Rico - already dropping property values and flooding the surplus housing market.

In the short term, Puerto Rico expected to suffer with closure of the base, which pumped an estimated $300 million a year into the U.S. commonwealth's economy. Long term, nearly 4 percent of the island's land area will be available for tourism, housing and industrial development.

Rosy Roads, as the military installation has long been nicknamed, was shut because the Navy could no longer use the nearby island of Vieques for bombing practice after May 2003. At one time, as many as 10,000 soldiers, civilian employees, outside contractors and their dependents lived on the base, though that number has shrunk throughout the years.

The Puerto Rican government is giving the nearby municipalities of Ceiba and Naguabo $1.2 million each to make up for what they lost in gross sales and excise taxes. A skeleton staff of 200 Navy personnel will maintain the base and keep it secure until it is disposed of sometime in late 2005.

"We're trying to make the best of it," said Milton Segarra, Puerto Rico's secretary of economic development...

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Pathetic!
It seems a vocal minority has had some success in their endeavor to transform Puerto Rico into Puerto Pobre.

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