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lol when i meant George Bush governor, i didn't mean George Bush literally. neutral

Our governor just reminds me of Bush because he's just too corrupt. xp

Changing the name can do something.
Identity, when the marines come in, they'll know that the natives still claim this island as their own.

harmless you say?
nah man, it is harmful for the people living here.
how would you like for 75k marines/familymembers to move into your island and take land that families here own and the best part of it is, is that NO ONE ON THE ISLAND GOT A SAY IN WHETHER OR NOT, WE WOULD ALLOW THERE TO BE A MILITARY BUILDUP ON GUAM.
That's what pissed everyone off here. Its bad enough we dont get to vote for the president, but not letting the people living on the island get a chance to make a decision if we would allow this to happen is ******** up.

this island is too small, adding 75k to an already populated island of 120k is way too much. you gotta think about resources, like water, the south of the island frequents low water pressure often going weeks w/o water. now if you add in 75k more bodies, then those people down there are screwed.
also, think about traffic, i'd imagine rush hour being changed to like rush hours waiting to get home 3-4 hours instead of the natural 30-1hr.

back to the land, some families own land here, and the military is taking the land that they own w/o even asking permission so basically they're stealing it. Also, alot of historical sites and sacred land on this island will be taken from us. like one place where people say is sacred because it's where the dead ancestors are buried is going to become a gun range. a gun range. neutral

Also, crime rate. One of the reasons the marines are being relocated from Okinawa Japan to Guam is because the cultural differences.
The marines have been making numerous crimes which the basic one pulled is rape.
Now, moving them here might make it less of an occurance since we have some similarities in culture but saying they're not going to be doing that again is stupid.

Then we move onto culture. We have culture here that is trying to be preserved i.e. chamorro language classes, guam history class and bringing more people in would destroy it in a way. You'd have to somehow educate them about the customs, language and culture.

I can literally go on and on so please, don't say that whatever is going on here is harmless. smile