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Forty Four Companies That Could Get Crushed If The Government Cuts Spending
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| 9-22-2012
| Rob Wile
Posted on 09/22/2012 7:09:34 AM PDT by blam
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To: Albion Wilde
Your Welcome.
I dislike it too. Was not that much trouble to list if I had to page through it anyway.
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posted on
09/22/2012 7:55:56 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: blam
They’re not going to cut anything.
They can always “reach across the aisle” to increase spending.
They’ll do it by temporary spending bills, from now until the crash, if they have to.
To: TADSLOS
The 47% nobody wants to talk about.
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posted on
09/22/2012 7:59:07 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: dalereed
so, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, every defense contractor in the country, put them under.
I guess you have lost your mind.
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posted on
09/22/2012 8:00:20 AM PDT
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: cripplecreek
The 47% nobody wants to talk about. You dont bite the hands that feed you, unless you work it out in advance with a wink and a nod.
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posted on
09/22/2012 8:05:16 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Conservatism didn't magically show up in Romney's heart in 2012. You can't force what isn't in you.)
To: Fightin Whitey
Theyre not going to cut anything.You are correct, sir!
Taking a built in 5% increase and reducing it to a 3% increase is a cut to these people!
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posted on
09/22/2012 8:05:17 AM PDT
by
airborne
(MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
To: blam
While the defense contractors listed here profits might suffer they will still have major contracts. I don't know if crushed is the right word here!! Downsized is more like it.
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posted on
09/22/2012 8:14:39 AM PDT
by
ontap
To: Texas Fossil
Dittos on hating the multi-click pages. It’s a cheating way to gain more page hits and increase revenues. Most sites limit it to one or two extra clicks, but I ran across one today that took 7 pages for a smallish article — at a rate of one paragraph per page!
Meh!! Didn’t read the article, and will never return to that site.
To: Texas Fossil
I see a lot of defense contractors that were familiar names in Iraq.
AECOM itself is just a poorly managed menagerie that buys up smaller companies, scoops up defense contracts, and then tries to figure out how to service the contracts after the fact. I guess that Halliburton/KBR also cut their losses in the O&M field.
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posted on
09/22/2012 8:21:10 AM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
To: airborne
I was informed fist thing this morning that I’m an idiot for suggesting that the tax on all manufacturing should be eliminated. Most people don’t have a clue how heavily taxed the local thingamajig factory really is. They only see corporate taxes and assume that cutting those will spur job creation. Unfortunately tax cuts at the top will be invested overseas and who could blame them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933016/posts
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posted on
09/22/2012 8:24:16 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: ontap
While the defense contractors listed here profits might suffer they will still have major contracts. I don't know if crushed is the right word here!! Downsized is more like it.
That in itself might actually spur job creation. When the automotive supplier I worked for downsized, the job went to a shop on the other side of town that did the job cheaper. Most of the people who were laid off from our shop were given preference in hiring at the other shop because they knew the job.
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posted on
09/22/2012 8:40:39 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek; ontap
Downsized, as in Los Angeles 1989 to 1992?
All the major aerospace companies were laying off in massive quantities.
Whole departments were eliminated, from the manager on down.
It was brutal and many people never were able to get back into the industry when it finally started to recover.
Entire shopping malls closed because the factory workers that shopped there were out of work.
That mall is still closed.
This time if it happens again, I don’t think folks will ever work in the field again, due to that “unemployed need not apply” meme.
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posted on
09/22/2012 9:02:30 AM PDT
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
To: WildHighlander57
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posted on
09/22/2012 9:05:03 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: WildHighlander57
I don't exclude defense contractors when it comes to government waste. Fact is maybe some of them aren't that efficient and some might be be on the subsidy dole because of certain campaign contributions Sorry...if you can't convince a majority of the House and Senate and the defense department has said the weapon you're producing isn't needed then that's to bad!!!
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posted on
09/22/2012 9:10:56 AM PDT
by
ontap
To: blam
This article reminds me of Democrats who trot out one or two sob-stories helped by a government program, yet ignore the millions of other people “crushed” by government regulation, debt and taxes.
I’m much less worried about the 44 companies that would get “crushed” by government spending cuts than the hundreds of thousands of companies that would be buoyed upward by reduced government.
Excepting defense companies, of course.
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
09/22/2012 9:27:26 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
To: BenLurkin
Saw Waste Management on that list. Was a little skeptical. Not me. Government produces nothing but waste. Somebody has to manage the effluvium.
Wow, I don't think I've ever been able to use the word "effluvium" in a sentence before. What a great way to start Saturday morning!
To: ontap
My union cousin works in a factory that has a contract with Boeing. The idiot takes time off work to protest our evil republican congressman who voted to keep those Boeing jobs away from union members.
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posted on
09/22/2012 9:28:29 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: dalereed
“If they arent profitable without government money put them under.”
Do you realize just how ridiculous your statement is? Take a look at the list! Most of the companies are in the Healthcare business, the rest are military hardware contractors. Just how would you propose that these specialized businesses “diversify?”
To: blam
This assumes the cuts are primarily defense. If the government cuts social programs, then is list should look at all the NGO’s, consultants and community organizations who will get hit. But that doesn’t scare Republicans so they produce this list. Business Insider is leftist. Don’t trust them.
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posted on
09/22/2012 9:34:05 AM PDT
by
Solson
(The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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