Entering the Areana.........

[slotted]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

My last job was as a maintenance inspector at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant and it was there that I strained my guts (in 1994) on that job

You sick bastard.

[MMDad]

Honest question: How would you employ people after the base was gone?

[mrweb]

Originally Posted by kwillia

Don't forget the disabled that are gainfully employed and shaking their head ruefully at a man who feels he is up to running for office yet isn't up for holding down a paying job.

:shakingheadruefully: I'm disabled, sport a Masters Degree, and make a darn good living working on base. I am still happily married with kids. Why would this looney-tune think I would ever vote for him. He's done a pretty good job trying to pizz me off, except I don't care to waste that much energy on a deadbeat. He stands against everything for which I portray in my mundane (but happy) little life. Moreover, he now expects me to pay for his child because he is too busy crying about being disabled and an ex-con. Danm, makes me ashamed to be a conservative Democrat.

Originally Posted by MMDad

Honest question: How would you employ people after the base was gone?

Why do you think the Base will close?? It is doing all or nothing thinking and it is wrong.

Stopping the Base expansion does not mean closing down the Base. It means stopping the robber barons and stop the senceless greed but the Base will still be here. The Base serves a Military purpose and it is not here only to serve Steny Hoyer and his employee and to make rich the other politicians.

It is only a fear technique that people play with that if we try to protect our homes from this excessive expansion then the powers that be will hurt us back by closing the Base. No, it is not true. Do not worry that the Base will close.

When we vote the bums out then I will not be using fear tactics to control the population.

Consider the over blown possibility that some how the Base was to close. Many people came here because they like the small town atmosphere. It would still take many years before it could actually be closed. And what if we then got access to the land there. It has nice beach front property and we could make the place like Ocean City, MD. Our lives do not depend on the Navy Base. There is other forms of employment and of luxury then having the County infrastructure overloaded to make our local oligarchy more rich then they already are.

[ylexot (Premo)]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

Why do you think the Base will close?? It is doing all or nothing thinking and it is wrong.

Stopping the Base expansion does not mean closing down the Base. It means stopping the robber barons and stop the senceless greed but the Base will still be here. The Base serves a Military purpose and it is not here only to serve Steny Hoyer and his employee and to make rich the other politicians.

What specifically would you stop?

[mv_princess]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

It has nice beach front property and we could make the place like Ocean City, MD

I don't know what base YOUR talking about...............but you would NEVER be able to make St Mary's into an Ocean City................one because there is no ocean.............two most important pay attention..................there is no beach! stupid!!!!! maybe you should get out every once in a while

[ylexot (Premo)]

Originally Posted by mv_princess

I don't know what base YOUR talking about...............but you would NEVER be able to make St Mary's into an Ocean City................one because there is no ocean.............two most important pay attention..................there is no beach! stupid!!!!! maybe you should get out every once in a while

There are small sections of beach...definitely not enough for an OC-type area.

BTW JPC, let's assume that we could turn St. Mary's into OC...I thought you wanted to stop expansion.

[mv_princess]

Originally Posted by ylexot

There are small sections of beach...definitely not enough for an OC-type area.

BTW JPC, let's assume that we could turn St. Mary's into OC...I thought you wanted to stop expansion.

yeah there is a small section.......but i wouldn't want to go in the water. WAY to many jelly fish......find some where else to run..........

[MMDad]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

Why do you think the Base will close?? It is doing all or nothing thinking and it is wrong.

Stopping the Base expansion does not mean closing down the Base. It means stopping the robber barons and stop the senceless greed but the Base will still be here. The Base serves a Military purpose and it is not here only to serve Steny Hoyer and his employee and to make rich the other politicians.

It is only a fear technique that people play with that if we try to protect our homes from this excessive expansion then the powers that be will hurt us back by closing the Base. No, it is not true. Do not worry that the Base will close.

When we vote the bums out then I will not be using fear tactics to control the population.

Consider the over blown possibility that some how the Base was to close. Many people came here because they like the small town atmosphere. It would still take many years before it could actually be closed. And what if we then got access to the land there. It has nice beach front property and we could make the place like Ocean City, MD. Our lives do not depend on the Navy Base. There is other forms of employment and of luxury then having the County infrastructure overloaded to make our local oligarchy more rich then they already are.

Self-educate yourself on the budget and political climate in DoD. No growth is death. Virginia Beach broke the Navy's rules and now they are scrambling in hopes of saving Oceana.

The State House of Delegates has no power over the Navy. You could do nothing. However, suppose you could? What specifically would you do? Would you force the Navy to build infrastructure prior to growth? Do you realize how many communties in this country would voluntarily build infrastructure to lure a lucrative base like PAX? Bottom line if you got your way, the base closes.

Now answer my original question: How would you employ those left unemployed by the base closing?

[pixiegirl (Premo)]

I couldn't read past the first page.