XPost: ne.politics, ca.politics, dc.politics   
   From: big@damn.head   
      
   On 10/9/2017 4:49 PM, Bill Shatzer wrote:   
   > Meanwhile, half of Puerto Rico lacks running water, Half lacks telephone   
   > service and 82% lacks electric power. While Trump is golfing and Pense   
   > is flying   
      
      
   They were not so smart to chase the US military base off their island,   
   now were they?   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Roads_Naval_Station   
      
   After the military left the station, Puerto Rican Governor Sila María   
   Calderón announced that her party, the PPD, had political goals to turn   
   the base into an international airport. This was backed in 2005 by the   
   then-new Governor, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, who asserted that the area might   
   be converted to an airport. He also stated that Ceiba as a town would   
   serve as an economic and tourist center for eastern Puerto Rico, and   
   that converting the former military base into a civil airport would be   
   part of a plan to open seven or eight large airports in Puerto   
   Rico.[citation needed]   
      
   Currently,[when?] approximately 2,900 acres (12 km2) of the former Naval   
   Station is being marketed to the public by the Los Angeles group of   
   Colliers International,[2] on behalf of the Navy's Base Realignment and   
   Closure Program Management Office,[3] as a public auction to commence in   
   the near future. The remaining portion is also in the process of being   
   conveyed to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other Federal agencies   
   in various stages. Since November 2008, Puerto Rico Ports Authority   
   operates the José Aponte de la Torre Airport.[citation needed]   
      
   No trucks?   
      
   No emergency vehicles?   
      
   No dozers or backhoes or transport trucks?   
      
   Yeah, we took 'em all back home....   
      
   But I bet that airport is popular now...   
      
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