So here is a part of Maryland that actually NEEDS jobs and is the bastion of Republican, conservative, Tea Party support and they are rejecting jobs that would be well paying and offer long term employment. The hypocrisy is limitless.

This is surprisingly good news.

@afmcalax: The opposition was highly bi-partisan. One of the few times, maybe only times I have been in agreement with the Tea Party. A majority of well-paying jobs would have been transferred positions.

Looks like the teabaggers are environmentalists at heart! I guess their pro-sprawl, anti-environment rhetoric only applies to the rest of us. God forbid their own little corners of the world become plagued by bad development.

With in five years they'll be townhouses on that land, so much for saving farms. . . .

Thank goodness! This has been a long time coming, and I am so very glad the people have finally been heard.

This is not a political issue although I am sure you will make it one. It is PORK anyway you slice it. It can now go and ruin someone elses community, I wish them well in their fight! We WON OURS!

Rumor has it that Disney has been looking at the site for a new "Farmville" themepark. Excellent job opportunities for locals- we can dress up and pretend to be farmers!

Thank God!!!! There are so many livelihoods that will be saved by this decision...It has nothing to do with politcal parties, it had everything to do with intelligent choices. Thanks to those that decided against it.

afmcalax: FYI Queen Annes County has the lowest unemployment rate on the Eastern Shore. Also, a pork-barrel project like this is exactly the kind of thing that conservatives should be fighting. Where do you think the money is going to come from? Higher taxes? More borrowing from China?

The training can be conducted at an expanded, existing facility where the infrastructure already exists rather than starting from scratch.

This is a sad day for QAC and the country as a whole.

A bunch of NIMBY chicken neckers with money, and their lackeys have succeeded in driving out a viable employment opportunity for our community. Hopefully the land will become a Hog or Chicken farm. It would serve those yuppies right.

The nation has lost out on a much needed training facility for our diplomatic corps. (I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent Xe[Blackwater] contract that was just inked.)

We are a farming community...chickens and hogs would be fine, thank you (just dont give them automatic weapons to play with).
I wasnt a math major, but even I know that when you are $1.4T in debt, you shouldnt spend $500M in hopes of creating 400 jobs...and hope to build it in an environmentally fragile area no less. This is a huge victory for our county...whether you see it that way or not.

People need to remember those "jobs" were never promised to QAC, Caroline or even the shore. The idea was to be within 150 miles of DC. Where are the people who lost the jobs from the other closed site going to work? Whoever in the world thinks bordering the a State Park with such a facility is ever a good idea - I will never understand. There are more than just "farms" at stake here! I for one am glad we voiced our opinions and made people listen!!!

Our voices were heard - loud and clear!! Thank goodness - this is a great day indeed.

Yes, that training facility would have brought hundreds of jobs to the highest unemployment county in Maryland – to those who already have jobs at other military bases. Only a small handful of civilian positions would have been made available. Essentially, the facility would have done nothing except congest the otherwise empty farm and back roads that run throughout the county – don’t we already have enough problems with 50? It wouldn’t have taken long for even more housing communities to spring up all over QAC… right next to existing ones that stand empty as neighborhoods are growing faster than the population. The facility would have done nothing but harm our farmland, chickens and hogs too. It would have absolutely ruined everything that we hold dear in our little corner of the world.
And by the way, chicken neckers are folks who are tourists or move to the Eastern Shore – not those who are born here.

The only people that really supported this project were the ones who were hoping to make a buck.
Congrats to everyone who fought the fight. Our next fight is rid the liberals from office who are ruining this country!!

Then can bring it to Owings Mills then
The mall shops are going broke anyway

Yeah, they save a couple of farms for now but right down the road you see signs for: 160 Acre farm for development or 1 acre lots for $199k. Good job QA.

Just a message to afmcalax and the rest of you who were for the FASTC:

I'm not a tea party member, and I'm happy as anyone else that the FASTC failed. But if I was a member of the Tea Party, I think I would not feel like a hypocrite. Remember, the whole cause of the tea party movement is runaway gov't spending. Gov't jobs equals gov't. spending. Moreover, any true conservative will tell you that being one means "conserving" your traditions and values, not innovating on the spot with government jobs that denigrate the culture of a community. If you want government jobs and lack of any traditional culture, go to the Western Shore. As for understanding political philosophy and the conservative mind, read Edmund Burke or Russell Kirk.

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