Long Beach Has Three Options: Preserve, Dry Dock, Or Sink The Queen Mary

Governments, local or not, have not shown a good track record of doing much in the way of profit. That being said I think the one option of selling it to a Casino group to remake into a top notch venue would be most profitable for the city. They could set a Per Room tax rate for occupancy, get additional taxes from the money spent there , and I would think there would be additional dollars for the city in tourism. I don't know the number of staterooms that could be rented but just look at Las Vegas, obviously Casinos are profitable.

Yeah, I think preserve the ship, but sink, scrap, tow, depth charge,--(whatever it takes)--that piece-of-crap Russian sub docked in front of it. I'm talking about The "Scorpion." It's a rusting eyesore. It's hardly an example of 'advanced Soviet nuclear tech,' even when it was built! Trust me, I took the tour a long time ago. Inside, it looks like it was built in the 1940s, but they said it was in use up until 1990? Hard to believe. Do the words, "old Russian junk" mean anything to you? The "Scorpion" was just some millionaire's idea of "get rich quick" back in the '80s. Now the brain who dreamed up the scheme is long dead, and the city is stuck with the bill; what to do with it?' Get rid of it. It's ugly.

Thinking like that is what has gotten us into the situation where even a $7 trillion bill isn't enough.