Breakdown on base closures

[Horse with no Name]

With the realignment proposals and base closings submitted by Cheney, let's see how that breaksdown in the numbers:

Alabama---+2664 personnel
Alaska--(4669)
Arizona--(550)
Arkansas--+3585
California--(2018)
Colorado--+4917
Connecticut (8585)
Delaware--+91
DC--(6496)
Florida--+2757
Georgia--+7423
Hawaii--(298)
Idaho--(659)
Illinois--(2698)
Indiana--+2197
Iowa--(6)
Kentucky--(3658)
Louisiana--(1297)
Maine--(6938)
Maryland--+9293
Massachusetts--+491
Michigan--+125
Minnesota--+262
Mississippi--(1678)
Missouri--(3679)
Montana--(124)
Nebraska--(213)
Nevada--+1059
New Hampshire--+4
New Jersey--+3760
New Mexico--(2849)
New York--(1071)
North Carolina--(422)
North Dakota--(2645)
Ohio--+241
Oklahoma--+3919
Oregon--+1083
Pennsylvania--(1878)
Rhode Island--+531
South Carolina--+709
South Dakota--(3797)
Tennessee--+1088
Texas--+6150
Utah--(446)
Vermont--+56
Virgina--(1574)
Washington--+760
West Virgina--(251)
Wisconsin--(552)
Wyoming--+37

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/050513_Base_CLosings.pdf

I have highlighted blue states. Further breakdown shows that overall, blue states lost 14,078 jobs in their states--redistributing wealth and possibly votes to red states.
However, red states gained 9559 jobs. This also will equate to electoral votes.

[displacedtexan]

1. "However, red states" what?

And do you have a link?

[Horse with no Name]

3. Link to what?

I gave you the numbers with the link and highlighted the states that voted Kerry.
Then did the math.

[Horse with no Name]

15. My apologies--I didn't realize that part of my post was

missing. I fixed it. Thanks.

[underpants]

2. 5,067 of DC's 6,496 are at Walter Reed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3650459

[Horse with no Name]

9. Sick.

It is also a possibility they will move their hospitals oversees to one of the bases they are building in Iraq.

[underpants]

12. Or maybe privatize it with oh I don't know HCA Hospitals

HCA is owned by the Frist family BTW.

[crimson333]

14. they said in the press conference they were building a new hospital

in Virginia and something else, I was only halfway listening

[underpants]

16. Hey great! Waste a standing hospital and build a new one

and everyone makes lots and lots of money. If you thought the "Big Dig" in Boston had cost and time overruns just wait until contractors get to bleed Uncle Sucker.

I know they may need "upgrades" and that it will create lots of new jobs but baby and bathwater.

[northzax]

13. right, but they are going to a blue state (Maryland)

so that doesn't work. Plus, it's actually a good thing, financially, for DC, most of those jobs are commuters, I wager, so DC gets no taxes from them and no taxes from the land. It's a money pit for DC.

[SCDem]

4. What I am wondering is ...

the loss gain in which branch of military. I looked at SC and the Naval Offices in Charleston are all going.... And the Army base is gaining. So where are those naval officers going to go? I think it needs a more thourough break down before assuming that just a loss gain would add more votes for red states.

note: ironically our Charleston port is where plutonium comes in and then is driven up to our nuclear plant at Savannah. So now we will have plutonium coming in with no overal military protection at all. Just something to think about ;)

[laura888]

5. when you say "personnel" are you saying...

...members of the military (probably will be reassigned - maybe to Iraq?) or government employees (whose jobs will be cut?)?

[Horse with no Name]

10. Both.

It is military and civilian personnel.

[mainer]

6. Hawaii is a blue state. n/t

[Horse with no Name]

11. Thanks missed it.

Fixing figures now.

[DemocracyInaction]

7. Hey, maybe my Maine can now give you a new Senator in '06

Snowe is a fixture. But since we have an "all blue" state now (Govenor, both houses of legislature, etc.) and Snowe isn't able to save Portsmouth, this could mean a shot at her. However, as I mentioned in another post, I think some of these might be a "set up". In other words, Snowe ends up saving the day and rides to victory. I think Maine going soooo totally blue in '04 kind of shocked the GOP and maybe this is their way of making sure that in the end there is no knocking off of Olympia........

[DemocracyInaction]

8. Oh, p.s. to my post--could be a way to bargain with Olympia, too

Maybe they will help Olympia save the day if she starts getting on her knees and performing a "Monica" when George commands instead of being a "moderate" now and then.

[triguy46]

17. I'm freakin' Nostradamus

I told my wife this AM that this was going to be the answer.
Blues screwed. To the victor goes the spoils.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Sominabiche

Son of a bitch. Look at that crap.