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Forty Four Companies That Could Get Crushed If The Government Cuts Spending
TBI ^ | 9-22-2012 | Rob Wile

Posted on 09/22/2012 7:09:34 AM PDT by blam

44 Companies That Could Get Crushed If The Government Cuts Spending

Rob Wile
Sep. 21, 2012, 4:16 PM

The threat of the "fiscal cliff" remains one of the most important events weighing on U.S. markets

To recap, if Congress does nothing before the end of the year, a series of tax cuts and spending programs will expire and combine to shrink GDP by up to 4 percent, according to Goldman Sachs analysts.

While we'd all suffer, some companies would get hit more than others.

The last time we had a major debate on government spending levels — the debt ceiling talks of 2011 — companies with heavy exposure to government significantly underperformed, Goldman says.

Earlier this year, Goldman put together the list of U.S. companies whose revenues rely most on the government.

We grabbed the 44 whose revenues are 50 percent or more taxpayer dependent.

Click here to see the companies.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fiscalcliff; government; spendingcuts; taxes
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1 posted on 09/22/2012 7:09:42 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Live by government, die by government.


2 posted on 09/22/2012 7:11:58 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: blam

If they aren’t profitable without government money put them under.


3 posted on 09/22/2012 7:17:18 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: cripplecreek

The majority are health services... Something off there. Some generic sounding contractors and communications and waste management companies.

Except for the specialized military equipment manufacturers, I don’t see what makes these other companies special snowflakes.


4 posted on 09/22/2012 7:19:40 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: blam
This list is unadulterated b.s. Most of the health care companies they list (e.g. Edwards Lifesciences, Baxter, Medtronic, Boston Scientific) are more concerned about how they are going to deal with the enormous costs imposed by the pathetically designed ‘Obamacare’. The truth for probably most of these companies is the opposite of what this report says. They would do much better if government involvement decreased.
5 posted on 09/22/2012 7:20:25 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: dalereed

“If they aren’t profitable without government money put them under.”

Yeah, who needs a main battle tank anyway?


6 posted on 09/22/2012 7:20:54 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: cripplecreek

Romney andd the GOP-E will figure out a way to keep them afloat. Engaging in corporate welfare isn’t just a democrat addiction.


7 posted on 09/22/2012 7:23:36 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.)
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To: Psalm 144

Someone else who runs a efficient operation will pick up the slack.


8 posted on 09/22/2012 7:25:06 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: Psalm 144

Keynesianism still fails when the spending is defense spending.


9 posted on 09/22/2012 7:25:32 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Your tattoo looks stupid.)
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To: blam

I figured the weasel Jeffrey Immelt-For-Obama and GE would’ve been Number 1. They didn’t even make the list.


10 posted on 09/22/2012 7:26:22 AM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: dalereed

We could outsource to China.


11 posted on 09/22/2012 7:26:22 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

“Keynesianism still fails when the spending is defense spending.”

No doubt, and military budgets are not sacred. I am OK with some levels of subsidy for wholly domestic production capacity of -necessary- military equipment however.

For centuries Rome and the successor state of Byzantium maintained entirely government owned military factories and horse breeding operations to ensure they never had -any- dependence on foreign or usurious civilian sources. A modernized version of that is not a bad idea.


12 posted on 09/22/2012 7:31:26 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: blam

Didn’t a considerable amount of Goldman Sachs employees CAUSE a lot of this nations problems in the first place?


13 posted on 09/22/2012 7:35:08 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Just as when the incompetent traitor, Jimmy Carter, was POTUS, the cuts that have to be made are in so-called green companies — in the case of the Kenyan, such front companies are losing billions that are unaccounted for, because they vanish as part of his money laundering operation. Thanks blam.


14 posted on 09/22/2012 7:36:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Company % Exposure
1 AMERIGROUP Corp. 100
2 Centene Corp. 100
3 Molina Healthcare Inc. 100
4 WellCare Health Plans Inc. 93
5 Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. 99
6 Lockheed Martin Corp. 97
7 Granite Construction Inc. 95
8 Northrop Grumman Corp. 90
9 L-3 Communications 90
10 Universal American Corp. 90
11 Raytheon 86
12 AeroVironment Inc. 85
13 Harris Corp. 82
14 Alliant Techsystems 82
15 Humana Inc. 81
16 Illumina Inc. 80
17 General Dynamics 80
18 FLIR Systems Inc. 78
19 Edwards Life Sciences 72
20 Bruker Corp. 69
21 Stryker Corp. 69
22 Tetra Tech Inc. 69
23 Becton Dickinson & Co. 68
24 Zimmer Holdings Inc. 68
25 URS Corp. 68
26 St. Jude Medical Inc. 68
27 Baxter International 68
28 Boston Scientific Corp. 68
29 DaVita Inc. 66
30 Covidien 65
31 Magellan Health Services Inc. 65
32 Motorola 65
33 Hospira Inc. 64
34 Medtronic 63
35 AECOM Technology Corp. 62
36 Bombardier 53
37 Omnicare Inc. 53
38 HCA Holdings Inc. 53
39 Clean Harbors 50
40 Republic Services 50
41 Waste Connections 50
42 Waste Management 50
43 Health Net Inc. 50
44 Affymetrix Inc. 70

15 posted on 09/22/2012 7:38:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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Saw Waste Management on that list. Was a little skeptical.
16 posted on 09/22/2012 7:41:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: blam

Companies that made buggy wheels are gone, too.


17 posted on 09/22/2012 7:42:02 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Texas Fossil

Thanks for the list: My computer buffers and loads so slowly it would take me a hour to click onto each one of those companies at the site to review the list!


18 posted on 09/22/2012 7:42:54 AM PDT by classified
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To: Texas Fossil
Thank you so much for compiling the list, Texas Fossil.

I HATE articles where you have to click multiple times to get the info, and it all lands in your browser history. Especially in a business publication, which should value user efficiency.

19 posted on 09/22/2012 7:49:15 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s the one I was wondering about too. Obviously they’re funded by local govt. I wasn’t aware that they get money from the federal govt too.


20 posted on 09/22/2012 7:51:03 AM PDT by sunshine state
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