The reality of course is different, but you are too dumb/ignorant to see it. Dem supporters dominate in counties that represent 2/3 of GDP as was correctly pointed few posts ago. Deep red states are one of the largest welfare and food stamps consumers.
Also funny that conservative red state parasitic cockroaches are the biggest socialist in the country living off military,farm etc welfare paid for by blue states. http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/2013/09/military_bases_defense_contrac.html Military bases, defense contracts, retirees bring $8.7 billion to Louisiana economy, study says The Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base's main entrance in Belle Chasse. The air station is one of the region's economic engines and plays a key role in the $527 million that military installations' payroll and contracts contribute to southeast Louisiana. (U.S. Navy) By Paul Purpura, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Follow on Twitter on September 11, 2013 at 6:21 PM, updated September 12, 2013 at 10:19 AM The military presence and defense contracts pumped more than $8.7 billion into the Louisiana economy during the 2012 fiscal year, with almost one third of the money tied to bases and activities in the New Orleans area, according to a summary of a long-sought economic impact analysis commissioned by the state. About 82,700 Louisiana jobs -- or about 4.35 percent of the state’s employment -- are tied to the military, and the workforce generated $287 million in state and local taxes in fiscal 2012, according to the study. The military presence alone accounted for $5.2 billion during the year, an amount that includes payroll for troops and civilians who work for the Department of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard or Louisiana Military Department, plus contracts associated with those installations. The balance includes defense contracts held by private companies in petroleum, shipbuilding and other industries, totaling $2.8 billion. Also, $637 million in pension checks was paid to the almost 24,000 military retirees living in Louisiana, according to the study. "We strongly support our military men and women in Louisiana as well as the installations at which they are based," Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret said Wednesday. "Accordingly, we have committed a great deal of staff time to developing and maintaining strong relationships with military installation leaders here as well as their superiors at the Pentagon." https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2016/september/military.php Military Installations Worth Billions for Texas Comptroller Study Weighs Economic Impacts by Bruce Wright Texans have a long and proud military tradition, and have distinguished themselves in every conflict since there was a Texas. But for many communities throughout the state, the military isn't just a focus for pride. B-1 flight prep: Flight preparation begins for a B-1B Lancer at Dyess Air Force Base. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Air Force Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar recently visited a number of Texas military installations to announce the results of a new study that quantifies the economic benefits Texas derives from the presence of these facilities in our state. The Comptroller study found that the 15 major military installations located in Texas generate more than $136.6 billion in economic activity here each year, and add $81.4 billion to our gross state product (Exhibit 1). They also generate $48.1 billion in annual personal income and support, directly and indirectly, nearly 806,000 Texas jobs. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/...Don-t-Even-Think-About-Closing-Military-Bases Congress to Pentagon: Don’t Even Think About Closing Military Bases December 18, 2015 The Defense Department has been pressing for years to close unneeded bases in the U.S., which would save billions and help gradually downsize and reconfigure the military. But that campaign has been mostly greeted with hostility on Capitol Hill. Last March, for example, Pentagon officials argued before a Senate panel that a new Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round would pay off handsomely, producing $2 billion a year in savings by shrinking the infrastructure by only five percent, according to the Military Times. But influential Republicans including Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, chair of the Armed Services readiness subcommittee, lashed back, noting that the last BRAC in 2005 cost the government $35 billion and yet produced little in the way of savings. “Now is not the time to spend billions of up-front dollars on another BRAC round, especially as costs for the last one have dramatically exceeded expectations,” she said Just in case the Defense Department and the White House didn’t get the message, the GOP-controlled Congress inserted unmistakable language in the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2016 barring DOD from planning another massive shutdown of military bases. “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to propose, plan for, or execute a new additional Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round,” states the legislation, which is awaiting final approval by the House and Senate. “Normally, Congress just tells an agency that they can’t spend money to do this or that,” said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. “But telling the Pentagon that they can’t spend money to propose a BRAC is the legislative equivalent of ‘don’t even think about it.’ The Administration can’t even put it in their Fiscal Year 2017 budget request next year.” It has been a full decade since Congress last authorized a major downsizing of the military’s U.S. footprint. More than 350 installations have been closed in five BRAC rounds dating back to 1988. In an effort to insulate the decision making from politics, Congress in the past has left the nitty gritty of deciding which bases to preserve and which to close to an independent commission, and then voted to approve or reject the overall recommendations. Related: $55 to $75 Billion--Guess How Much the New Stealth Bomber Will Cost Given the steady decline in the number of troops and civilian workers, there is less and less of a need to maintain many sprawling and costly bases and military installations in the country. The Defense Department at one time estimated its excess or surplus infrastructure at between 18 percent and 30 percent, according to The Fiscal Times. The Pentagon’s vast real estate portfolio includes more than 562,000 buildings and structures on 523 bases, posts and centers. At a time when Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are pressing to streamline the military and reorganize combat commands, administration officials, defense budget analysts and others are dismayed by the staunch congressional resistance to downsizing the infrastructure. This is especially alarming when the Pentagon is being showered with so much money -- $572.6 billion alone in fiscal 2016 – while little is being done to crack down on waste or adequately audit spending. However, lawmakers argue that the timing is wrong for another BRAC amid widespread public concern about defense and the threat of ISIS terrorists. And they say that the last downsizing during the administration of Republican President George W. Bush in 2005 provided a cautionary note about the limits to savings that can be achieved by closing bases. Mostly, House and Senate members don’t like base-closures because they are politically divisive – pitting one state against another – and they can lead to the loss of jobs and economic opportunity in their states that could become an issue during an election. Ayotte, for example, is facing a tough challenge next year from Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan and can’t afford to appear willing to risk a base closing in New Hampshire. Related: U.S. Weapons Worth $500 Million Vanish in Yemen “Congressmen don’t want bases closed in their districts, it’s as simple as that,” said Gordon Adams, a professor emeritus at American University and an authority on defense spending and strategy. “And that’s almost entirely what it is. The military brass would love to close bases; they would love to get the savings from consolidating infrastructure for things that they really want. They know they have too much infrastructure.” However, the controversy isn’t cut and dried. When the last BRAC was considered and approved in 2005, the Pentagon estimated similar excess capacity to what it is claiming now, according to reports. Congress ultimately approved reducing military infrastructure by less than 3.5 percent, but at a cost of a startling $35 billion to achieve. The annual savings from that huge investment turned out to be roughly $4 billion. Ever since then, opponents of more base closures cite the Bush administration’s costly experiment. Yet Adams said that the 2005 BRAC was different from earlier efforts because “they did more realignment than they did closure.” Related: Army’s Plans to Cut 60,000 Could Be a Major Blow to the Economy “What that means is taking forces from point A and grouping with them with forces at point B, consolidating bombers, consolidating fighter aircraft,” he said. “They didn’t close very many bases. But they had to do a lot of spending to reconfigure bases so that they could receive the incoming material and people.” “Members of Congress hide behind that cost to oppose any future base closure rounds,” he added.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LAOILGASNGSP Louisiana posted growth of 3.8% in real gross domestic product during first quarter, compared to the previous quarter - which means the state outpaced the national average of 3.1% in GDP growth. The state was No. 10 in the nation for economic growth during first quarter and comprises 1.2% of total U.S. GDP. It appears the majority of that growth was driven by non-durable goods manufacturing sector which grew by 2.09% during first quarter and was the highest in the nation for that sector. Non-durable goods are often single use or short-term use materials bought by consumers like food or beauty products but also includes gasoline. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data, released Thursday, showed that Louisiana has rebounded after weak growth for the majority of 2018. During third quarter last year, the state even had negative GDP growth of less than 1%. Louisiana’s GDP was more than $256 billion as of first quarter, up from $247 billion during first quarter last year. Gross domestic product measures the market value of goods and services produced and is one widely-used benchmark for the economy. GDP generated by construction, wholesale trade and the information sector dropped by less than one percentage point during first quarter in the state. Meanwhile, mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, utilities, manufacturing, retail trade and insurance and finance sectors saw major growth during first quarter.
https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=LA Quick Facts Louisiana is one of the top five natural gas-producing states. It accounts for 7% of U.S. total gas production and has about 8% of the nation's gas reserves. Louisiana’s 17 oil refineries account for nearly one-fifth of the nation’s refining capacity and are capable of processing 3.3 million barrels of crude oil per day. New Orleans is the nation's third-largest coal exporting port, with almost one-fifth of U.S. coal exports shipped through the port in 2018. The Sabine Pass LNG export terminal on Louisiana's coast handled 22% of U.S. total natural gas exports in 2017. Louisiana is home to two of the four storage sites that make up the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is capable of holding more than 700 million barrels of oil for an emergency. The two Louisiana sites hold 270 million barrels.
Oh... and one more thing.... lets go back about 35 years to 1985.... now lets look at what percentage of California's GDP came from Defense Spending for each of those years. Uh huh. Pretty fat. And.... I would imagine those farms out there got their share of the subsidy pie when available too. Probably more than their fair share. But certainly the military and defense spending. Don't you hate it when I'm always right? Maga.
Louisiana has been doing better since Bobby Jindal has been gone and they elected a democrat governor.Compared to solid blue states its still a shit hole though that depends and natural resources(oil and gas) and government welfare with money taken from blue states.
Lets come back to 2019.CA has the biggest economy in the US,one that is larger than many countries, and tax revenue is taken from CA to give to parasitic red states.
Office: Governor of Louisiana since 2016 https://www.knoe.com/content/news/L...-51-since-2016-outpaces-nation-509325291.html Louisiana GDP grows by 5.1% since 2016, outpaces nation BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The Bureau of Economic Analysis released figures Wednesday morning that Louisiana has the 11th highest growth rate with a 5.1 percent GDP. The annual growth rate is from 2016-2018, which outpaces the national average of 4.7 percent. When compared to last year’s total GDP figures, Louisiana GDP has increased by $13.98 billion – from $238.1 billion in 2017, to $252.1 in 2018. “Louisiana’s GDP has continued its pattern of sustained growth since this time last year, and from the previous quarter,” said LWC Secretary Ava Dejoie. “Our work is never finished, and we will continue to help businesses and individuals achieve prosperity and growth.” In the fourth quarter of 2018, Louisiana’s GDP grew by $1.85 billion, a 1.3 percent increase. Louisiana’s GDP increased from $252 billion in 2018’s third quarter to $255.5 billion in the fourth quarter, making it the highest figure on record. Its GDP marks nine consecutive quarters of GDP growth. Several industries, such as Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (1.17 GDP percentage points) as well as real estate (.43 1.17 GDP percentage points) contributed to the growth.
John Bel Edwards should be commended for the job he is doing.Bobby Jindal wrecked that state beyond belief trying to appease the tea party and Grover Norquests no tax increase pledge.As usual a democrat had to come in and clean up the republicans mess.