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Old Jan 15, 2012 | 6:51 pm
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Originally Posted by adamj023
Yes I feel strongly that players around the world ought to setup shop here at home. In fact JetBlue's initial founder was from Latin America, but he just happened to move to the USA and had USA based financing for the business.
As you are so fond of saying... totally wrong. Neeleman was born in Brazil but moved to the US when he was five years old, returning to Rio only to do some missionary work. He started and sold a whole other US airline, Morris Air, before conceiving JetBlue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neeleman

Sorry, but you invite fact-checking with wild stuff like this.
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