{"id":269,"date":"2005-05-15T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/15\/bottom-line-on-base-closings\/"},"modified":"2005-05-15T01:01:50","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T05:01:50","slug":"bottom-line-on-base-closings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/15\/bottom-line-on-base-closings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottom Line on Base Closings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5109'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recently announced military base closings are not about efficiency or modernization, they are about politics. The winners win and the losers lose; so it has always been and will always be.  Here are the numbers, read &#8217;em and weep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Blue States: 27, 138 jobs lost<br \/>\nRed States: 14,710 jobs gained<\/p>\n<p>Blue States gaining jobs: 8<br \/>\nBlue States losing jobs: 13 (including DC)<\/p>\n<p>Red States gaining jobs: 14<br \/>\nRed States losing jobs: 16<\/p>\n<p>Total of Blue States job gains: 11,351<br \/>\nTotal of Red States job gains: 40,328<\/p>\n<p>Total of Blue States job losses: 38,489<br \/>\nTotal of Red States job losses: 25,618<\/p>\n<p>Electoral votes of Red States gaining jobs: 171<br \/>\nElectoral votes of Red States losing jobs: 110<\/p>\n<p>Biggest Red State job gainers: Georgia, Texas, Colorado<br \/>\nBiggest Red State job losers: Alaska, South Dakota, Missouri<\/p>\n<p>Number of Blue States gaining more than 1,000 jobs: 1<br \/>\nNumber of Red States gaining more than 1,000 jobs: 11<\/p>\n<p>Number of Blue States losing more than 1,000 jobs: 10 (includes DC)<br \/>\nNumber of Red States losing more than 1,000 jobs: 8<\/p>\n<p>via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2005\/5\/13\/11033\/6867\">Daily Kos <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently announced military base closings are not about efficiency or modernization, they are about politics. The winners win and the losers lose; so it has always been and will always be. Here are the numbers, read &#8217;em and weep&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/15\/bottom-line-on-base-closings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}