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They must go through this over and over. There was Homestead Air Force Base, for example, which probably would have been mothballed anyway if Andrew hadn't got to it first. Bush wanted to spend $480 million rebuilding Homestead. Why not use the money to rebuild Floridians' actual homes? And what the Pentagon won't take, someone else will buy: 72 F-15s to provide jobs for Missourians, 150 F-16s for the Texans -- with Saudi Arabia and Taiwan footing the bills...
Promised to spend $500 million to rebuild marginally important Homestead Air Force Base...
LOOKING JUST LIKE A CANDIDATE IN search of TV coverage, Ross Perot turned up in Homestead, Florida, last week to commiserate with hurricane victims. In Phoenix, Arizona, meanwhile, Perot supporters held a midnight rally to start the petition drive that will place his name on the state ballot in November. Elsewhere, diehard Perotistas, with financial support from their billionaire hero, are completing work that is almost certain to give voters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia the chance to vote for a man who ostensibly abandoned his campaign for President in July. At Perot's Dallas office...
Despite the construction boom, Dade County's economy still staggers under Andrew's blow. Unemployment is rising into the double digits, business activity has declined sharply, and aggregate personal income is way off. Southern Dade depended largely on agriculture and Homestead Air Force Base, both devastated by the hurricane. About 80% of the area's farms were damaged, and losses to the foliage industry, vegetable crops and tropical orchards top $400 million. The winter vegetable crop, which supplies half tored, there'll be no hammering at Homestead...
...second time since Andrew tore off into the Gulf of Mexico, George Bush and his entourage descended into the heat and bustle of South Florida, anxious to show their concern and capacity to make things right again. Bush promised to rebuild the gutted Homestead Air Force Base, which pumped about $400 million into the local farm-based economy, though logic suggested it should be closed. Bush also agreed to waive the normal 75-25 federal-local split on disaster costs; Washington will pick up the full...