Closing shipyard would cost 9,575 jobs - Pearl Harbor Naval

[yorkiemommie1]

http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=3613

Closing the 97-year-old Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard will mean a loss of $1.3 billion annually and a loss of nearly 10,000 jobs.
Those are the findings of a report by Enterprise Honolulu, prepared for the Chamber Commerce of Hawaii, in anticipation of the possibility that the Basic Realignment and Closure commission may amend the Pentagon’s May 13 hit list by adding Pearl Harbor at a Tuesday meeting in Washington, D.C.


I know a lot of people who work there.

[Tux]

1. But

Those people will be rich from globalization and free trade. If we send enough jobs overseas, we'll be so welathy, we'll burn money for fun.

[yorkiemommie1]

2. oh, yeah ,

i forgot about that! :)

[KamaAina]

3. Bear in mind it'd take seven of nine BRAC commissioners

to add Pearl to the list (and no, Jeri Ryan is not involved :-) ), plus Portsmouth works primarily on subs (not the direction the Navy's going). Last I heard, ours was a two-ocean Navy, so it kind of needs shipyards in both oceans, don'tcha think?

But no, the process isn't political, not a bit, especially not when four repuke Senators (Portsmouth is right on the NH/ME line) are involved, oh no. :sarcasm:

What does it say that either our last 10,000 industrial jobs go, or northern New England's do -- and both depend on the Bush**co war machine, which, ironically, is in high gear, but presently invading a mostly landlocked country?

[yorkiemommie1]

4. it's ok

just as long as that ex classmate of mine is making money doing building for the govt. ( this is the guy who says cheney is ' cool and casual ' - two words i'd never apply to that devil ), everything is ok, (sarcasm)

tourism is main industry in HI, right? then, is the military second?

and no more big sugar and pineapple agricultural? they were huge when i was growing up there.

[KamaAina]

5. Sugar and pineapple have largely been outsourced

just try to find a Hawai'i pineapple at your local market; most are from Southeast Asia or Latin America, and are stringy and flavorless compared to the ones grown in the red dirt (but cheaper, of course).

The island of Maui has most of the remaining agriculture. "Sugar in the Raw" is made with Maui sugar; many store brands of canned pineapple are made with Maui pines (look for the words "100% Hawaiian U.S.A." stamped on the lid).

What saved us from a fate similar to that of the Rust Belt was the rise in tourism, and concurrently in construction. The military probably is second; unfortunately, they're trying harder (new brigade of Stryker vehicles too light for combat, plans to berth a big, hulking carrier here, etc.).

[yorkiemommie1]

6. red dirt...

is that what makes them good? i get them here in SOCal. Wish Hawai'i could ship more papayas, too.

I know tourism has saved the state but at the same time.... I remember when we went Girl Scout camping at Haunama Bay and it was DESERTED.