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'Who' Really Runs Your State?
A state's economy is nothing without the businesses that call it home. However, these companies are not created equally - bigger businesses naturally have outsized influence, generating more revenue, employing more people and (at least theoretically) paying more taxes. So given that corporations are now 'people', who really runs your state in this crony-capitalist land of the free?
Some may be surprising: Chevron (not Apple) runs California, Costco (not Microsoft) runs Washington, and Sands run Nevada.
Some are less so: Berkshire Hathaway runs Nebraska, GM runs Michigan, and ExxonMobil runs Texas.
As Broadview Networks explains,
Using Hoover’s, a D&B Company, we searched through each state’s list of companies to find which had the largest revenue in the last fiscal year. It was interesting to see how each company’s revenues have changed over the year (for better or worse) and to see if a new largest company had emerged.
At first glance, you may ask, “Where are Apple and Microsoft?” Yes, these are huge companies but this map is specifically looking at total revenue from the last fiscal year. If we look at California with Apple vs. Chevron, there is a large discrepancy between market value and total revenues. Apple’s market value as of March 31, 2015 was $724 billion while Chevron’s was only (and we use “only” lightly) $197 billion. In terms of revenue, Chevron comes out on top with $203 billion in the last fiscal year while Apple had revenues of $182 billion.
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Shit! Liberty Mutual runs my state...need to look for new auto insurance...
My state is run by the national and transnational entities that donate most to “my representatives” in the US House of Representatives and Senate.
..and there is a “trickle-down” effect to the State legislature as well.
Only in Maine would it be a supermarket chain.
BofA don't run NC. Never did.
The MIC runs NC, always has.
pods
coffee in VT? BS. its the public unions, headed by the (reprehensible)NEA.
Runs your state?
At first I thought that you had misspelled RUINS your state. I'm still not quite sure.
It always makes me feel better when I remember that "Huntsman" in German is "Jaegermeister". For some reason.
Get a load of this shit...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Scripts
(Looks like the MIC is deeply in bed with these guys)
More misinformation. Government is in control in all of these states.
Corporations, which are the bastard offspring of government anyway, are just the current variety of string-pullers.
Would religion, the military, unions, the AGW crowd, Stalin wannabes, organized crime syndicates, some other country's fiat currency, or your mother-in-law be any better?
Government is the poison, this is just one of the types.
Zero Doubt +1000
MD = NSA
The biggest company in Oklahoma is a truck stop. What a bunch of rubes. Those country folk need to hide their head in shame.
ANUSOCRACY
"More misinformation. Government is in control in all of these states.
Corporations, which are the bastard offspring of government anyway, are just the current variety of string-pullers.
Would religion, the military, unions, the AGW crowd, Stalin wannabes, organized crime syndicates, some other country's fiat currency, or your mother-in-law be any better?
Government is the poison, this is just one of the types"
Gibberish.
All government at every level owes ultimate fealty to.................................................its creditors. as do 95 percent of corporations.
Spend a few hours with Damon Vrabel on youtube and you will completely understand this fact:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96c2wXcNA7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_yh4-Zi92Q
Let the truth set you free.
In fact, if you spend the time and master the material presented you will gain the equivalent of a doctorate in reaity economics, the forbidden fruit that the godlike PTB are so determined to deny us access too.
As the Fed enables all banks, and is a creation of the criminal gang in Washington DC, The Feral Gummint of the FORMER UfuckingNitedStates, owns all fucking states in the former UnitedFuckingStates. Get fucking use to it.
Run this through your mind a couple of times:
If you didn't have government, government wouldn't have creditors and corporations wouldn't exist.
Then relay that to Damon Vrabel so he too can stop being stupid.
Express Scripts global HQ here in STL is literally so close I could throw a rock their lobby window from my apt across the street. I moved here 7 years ago, they had 1 big building. Today, they're past a dozen, with 6 more under construction and have spread across and down both sides of I-70. They jumped all the way to the fortune 20 in the process. INSANE growth.
People protest Monsanto, also right down the street, but ES could buy them 1000x over, and no one is ever here protesting ES.
I'm an un-repentant alcoholic, but Jaeger probably should be banned from public places. That shit is evil.
+1 obvious typo
Chart makes a lot more sense with this error corrected.
Fuck Regions bank....
Wisconsin is run by the public education rackets that bleed us dry. They are terrified by competition and mercilessly lie about even the least controversial proposals to save a few nickles.
Johnson Controls is a good company for the most part. I do not recall anything that they have done to directly get the taxcows to subsidise their business. They ask for decent treatment so I suppose that is reprehensible in the left lexicon.
That is not to say that there are no companies that work the taxcows from the states to give them irresponsible gifts.
Yup. I'm in Maryland. Lockheed Martin. It should just say MIC, brought to you by .gov.
If government spending stopped or slowed in Maryland, this state would dry up and blow away. I'll bet I'm not far off to say 70% of this state's juice is from .govs titty.
ALL of the biggest are wired in permanently to the Federal IV.
"Only in Maine would it be a supermarket chain."
and Ohio
And Idaho
They forgot Maryland entirely. The face of Obama would have sufficed.
Only in Michigan is the U.P. always assumed to be exactly the same as the lower part of the state, even though they are completely different.
I doubt many people in Houghton, MI are heavily under the influence of GM. Seemed like there were a lot of Ford fans up there, actually...
(Might have something to do with all the little research facilities that Mr. Ford built up there for various purposes, way back in the day.)
Yoopers haven't left the stone age yet.
The Yoopers have many valuable stones in their land; not the least of which is copper ore, in vast abundance. I do not think the pieces of rubble that were once downtown Lansing, Detroit, K-zoo, etc after SHTF are going to be as valuable.
Except perhaps as catapult ammo...
Just kidding, yoopers are okay.
Better than most in the lower peninsula.
Love the Yoopers! A fine collection of old school rugged individuals.... Respect.
Kroger is listed in Ohio...
LM sucks. I once called them about covering my house. The girl asked how long I've lived here. When I said 26 years, she groaned. Yes, she groaned! They, clearly, don't want to cover people who actually have a choice(paid off mortgage and only want a catastrophic policy). Watch their TeeVee commercials. They're soliciting to all the bad drivers(for higher margin).
World Fuel Services runs my state.
"In 2013, the company was named as a co-defendant in various lawsuits as owner of Bakken formation light crude oil aboard a Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway train which derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec on July 6, 2013, killing an estimated forty-seven people and destroying much of the community's downtown.[2]"
This artical is total bullshit I live in north Dakota and by far the biggest privatly owned for profit corp in this state is "THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA" but for some reason the dont seem to include those companys as listed on Dunn ans Bradstreet , why is that do they think we are to stupid to know about them , who wrote this shit.
My best friend's ex-wife makes $75/hr on the laptop. She has been unemployed for eight months but last month her income with big fat bonus was over $15000 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more on this site..... www.Earnmore9.com
In about 6 states are companies that actually create wealth the largest.
Eh, I counted a bit more than that. Exxon, Chevron, StillWater, MDU Resources, Cloud Peak, POET(fuels), Koch (fertilizer) , Johnson Controls (controls/valves), Boeing, Whirlpool...Didn't count GM, those fucks. Same with NIKE, having kids in Bangladesh make Nike's for Jamal doesn't count.
Where do you think Whirlpool's parts come from?
or Boeing's?
Virginia is not a real estate company. VA is run by spooks.
What are the odds that Long and Foster are not a CIA front company?
Air America and Homes America.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
P. Wesley Foster, Jr.
P.Wesley Foster, Jr. is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Long & Foster® Companies —Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.,Prosperity Mortgage Company,Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Long & Foster® Companies
Mid-States Title Insurance Agency, Inc., and Long & Foster Insurance Agency, Inc. He founded Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. in 1968, along with a partner, Henry A. Long. Wes Foster handled the residential real estate arm of the business and Henry Long handled commercial. In July 1979, Mr. Foster became sole owner and, with 260 offices and $65 billion in annual sales, Long & Foster is today the largest privately-owned real estate company in America. Wes Foster is a founding member of The Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and the Realty Alliance, both of which are trade groups consisting of the nation’s leading brokers. Presently, Foster is seated on the board of directors of Lane Construction Corporation of Meridien, Conn. He has also served on the board of directors of RELO®, The Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (a global network of large real estate companies), The Greater Washington Board of Trade, Metro Board of Directors of First American Bank of Maryland, and the Board of Directors of First Union National Bank of Virginia. He was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 1991 for real estate in the Greater Washington, D.C. area by Ernst & Youn g and co-sponsors Merrill Lynch and Inc. Magazine. In 1987, Wes Foster was elected Chairman of the Washington/Baltimre Regional Authority and is past Chairman of The Business Development Bureau of The Greater Washington Board of Trade. Foster is a 1956 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and was an Army artillery officer, stationed in Darmstadt, Germany. He functioned in the capacity of Fire Direction Officer of the D. Battery 28th Artillery 8th Division (An Honest John Rocket Battery). He also served as special weapons liaison officer to the German III Corps. Foster resides in McLean, with his wife, Betty, and they have three grown children and five grandchildren.
Since VA is my State, i took a quick look at the report. the authors of this report are retarded.
in VA, they counted the Gross real estate sales as revenue for the company named. That is not revenue.
Got to agree with that. I think Food Lion has more revenue than Long & Fosters. Total Bullshit article.
Can you hear me know?
How the hell is Verizon the top dog in NY?
bankers and financier can use "mark to fantasy" accounting and have access to free money (ZIRP) the best of both worlds...
That one made me giggle when I read that. Like Wall Street doesn't run that place.
Of course, it would not be PC if over NY it said "Jews."
pods
And if you look closely, District of Columbia, has ALL 50 logos, plus 8 Nations calling the shots...
OK is run by a truck stop?
Not just a truck stop, Love's Truck Stop!
When I get kicked off ZH for anti Semitic remarks, I'm coming back as 'truck stop shower'. All lower case too, btw.
Has that ever happened? They must have posted their real time operational plan to rid them, otherwise, kinda hard to believe any comments about da Jooos get banned.
His name was francis sawyer (and several others. Hey francis you fuck, we know who you are when you come back, please stop using {these} so Tyler don't ban your ass again and we gotta wait for your next handle. When you get back again, stop it with the funny parantheses. No doubt the gorilla in house understands this as well and is quick to hit the "report" button.)
Seems the ADL didn't like what was being said here and was suing Tyler et all, so Tyler brought about the ban hammer.
So now francis kicks back on an island earning $$ from his trademarked "Cheesepope" and stops in every now and again.
pods
WTF is a cheesepope anyhow? I have googled it and I just end up back at ZH.
I call bullshit. Goldman Sach finances everyone!!!
They take the Rothchilds left overs.
Lived in Iowa almost all of my 25 year old life, never heard of fuckin TransAmerica....Life Insurance? Seriously?
The Gender Identity Modification franchise maybe?
Okay, the Dutch company Aegon bought Transamerica in 1999. Since then they have been bringing in Indian (as in from India) workers to replace the more expensive American workers, and of course the kicker is that the Americans have to train the cheaper Indians who are going to replace (read: cut their throats) them...right here in the good old all-American (used to be) Iowa.
Indian ( dot, not arrow)
Transamerica used to be associated with San Francisco.
Iconic pyramid-like high-rise building
Presbyterian, LOL. I was recently deposed (as a witness, not a party) in a lawsuit against Pres. They fucked up big time on this one. Took part in totally ruining somebody's life.
Yet another retreaded story. Zzzz.zzzz.zzzzzzzz....
Hedge
Man Alabama must be piss poor if shitheel Regions Bank is running the show.
Shit. We all know Nick Saban runs that state.
It's basically the "perfect storm" of football popularity down here. Football is (down, under the surface, in the subconscious) a war game, and being as this nation currently stands on the brink of war, football's popularity naturally increases. Down here, football has always been popular due to us hating to suffer under the Yankee yoke, and with us seeing that things are worse than ever and getting worse by the year, people are BIG into this football thing. Nick Saban coming along and returning the Tide back to its former glory after years of lackluster performance was the icing on the cake. You would not believe how many Tide stickers, signs, slogans, street names (seriously), etc you see everywhere. This is Serious Business. If Nick Saban declared tomorrow he had formed a secret army and was planning to overthrow the Alabama government and assume dictatorial powers, in the name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, I think a lot of starry eyed people wouldn't even blink.
But what about the Barners?
Damn. Take a wild guess as to the most indebted athletic department in teh SEC?
Whoa Nellie Foooootbaaaaallll Allllaaaabama! (Keith JACKson). $250M in debt as of 2011.
My alma mater is in a close second -- LSU. $200M
many LSU fans are still bitter about NS leaving and going to their arch rival.
I stopped watching that shit years ago, hung up my secret sneaky flask, my Kevin Faulk Jersey, and sold my season tix.
They turned the games into a big security theater, raised the prices, and took all the fun out of it. 10 years ago, in the wake of Nickie's 'success'.
Tiger Stadium used to be fun when it was filled with working class coon asses. Now it's filled with rich corporate types who play with phones, talk, and go the snackbar during critical downs. They show up late, leave early, don't cheer, and bitch at you if you stand up.
Gentrification and corporatization -- or more succinctly financialization.
RR, I can tell you some stories about the Saban's after the 2012 tornado that hit Tuscaloosa and then ripped all the way through to NE Georgia. They had/have a house on Lake Burton in Rabun County, GA. Suffice it to say, their behavior did not exactly enhance their reputation amongst the locals...
Alabama is one of the richest states in this nation, actually.....at least if you count the things which matter. Like natural resources, and people who have intelligence and values.
No idea why Regions Bank is so big here; I guess they must have headquarters here or something. We've got plenty of real industry in every part of the state, and plenty of agriculture too. Lots of chickenhouse "owned" by Koch Bros these days.
After TSHTF Regions will go down the drain, Koch Bros will be minding their own business wherever else they live, and the ownership of a lot of these buildings and businesses will be changing hands from corporate conglomerates to local businessmen. Of that I can assure you.
One hater is pissed cause his shithole state is going down in flames, while the people he and his forefathers have shat on and laughed at for generations are going to ride it out and be OK.......specifically because they've been kept down in poverty for generations, and learned to make do, while he and ihs ilk were spoiled by their wealth and arrogance.
History will not be kind to you, cause karma's a mean bitch.
I thought its was the see eye a after they knocked off the corn bread mafia
Goldman is nowhere to be found here.
Ahhhhh ..... of course.
J. P. Morgan is running the country.
Goldman is running the fucking world.
Fuck the map, Disney owns all of this bitch.
No wonder Michigan is in trouble.
Britain?
Britiain is run by the British Board of Deputies.
AKA - the tribe.
They own Westminster. (Friends of Israel - obligatory)
They own the media.
They own the City.
Nuff Said.
BS, MIC runs FL. Most new development is to house those fuckers and their broods and required servants, too. I guess "Fuel" is an important component of all that, but please...
The owners of the Federal Reserve own it all in the end don't they?
Anyone who thinks labor doesn't run IL, along with several other states, is out of their mind.
the chart has at least one error:
"The chart shows Love's Travel Stops (OK) revenue increasing from $26.09B in 2014 to 426.09B in 2015. [more than EXXON, almost as much as Walmart]
I think someone missed the shift key on that one."
http://www.broadviewnet.com/blog/2015/06/largest-companies-by-revenue-in...
Word must be getting out about their coffee.
A better measure would be who lines the campaign coffers of the politicians. In Californa, that knocks Chevron out of the top spot. The teachers' union wins, which is pretty obvious considering the state of our schools.
http://rainmaker.apps.cironline.org/groups/
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corporations have been legal persons for hundreds of years - they can sue or be sued in court, which is in essence all the term means.
Whenever I see "corporations are now people" I know the person writing is neither someone familiar with Constitutional or common law, and also likely hasn't contemplated the alternative - the inability to sue a company, the ability of government to ban mass produced books if by a 'corporation' leaving only the wealthy the ability to self publish...etc.
Donations to the 2 major parties means significantly more than a state's largest employer.
okay, so how many companies have been arrested, stripped of all wealth and left in prison to rot for bad choice that they made.
Here is the flipside of it all... ...as a "limited liability person" you can expect individuals to behave the same way.
As far as publishing goes, any fool can publish on the internet now. Words are not worth shit anymore, actions are.
I was sure Virginia was gonna be AppleBees(tm).
Wait a minute, a real estate agency is tops in the state of Virginia? A lot of .govvies live there, don't they.
Now that you mention it, Oklahoma is like one giant truck stop...
And there's Iowa with "Transamerica".
I was wondering where all that LGBTQRSTUV stuff came from.
Have you ever been to Iowa? Then you'd understand. Most boring state in the Union, with the worst radio stations. Any kid unlucky enough to grow up there must hate himself.
Cute, but doesn't correlate.
Ukraine.
A comment from another highly reputable board.
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Are there any Jews left who aren't on zee list?
United Federation of Zi'Borgs. The real "E Pluribus Unum" -- United As One:
Single-minded purpose of Vision & Goal, Organized, Ruthless, Relentless.
/"Now go back to your Roman-made hippie Deity -- enjoy your poverty, embrace your subservience, and turn the other cheek! Just like the Roman Testament says. We OTOH, follow a conquering Deity, where the strong conquer and live off the weak, the way Nature intended" /sarc
Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Where is our moneyed Lord in the form of the Zed Reserve?
Definitely need more government to curtail these evil organizations that have absolutely no power without governm...oh I see what the problem is here.
By all means, moar gov't.
Boeing? Bitch, please...everybody knows unions run Illinois.
In CA SEIU has more revenues than Apple or Chevron
Yikes! BofA! How's come we be so po in Appalachia?
Let them continue the monopoly. Once no one participates in crony capitalism, the house of cards fall.
Next emergency measures to bailout the bankers will bring the second ammendment fear within ZIRP money circles.
Now that ZIRP is installed, I wouldn't want to be a employed banker in the United States of America. 318 million people will turn into a Bonnie & Clyde bank withdrawal heist.
Once the funds are not available, bankers will be killed. Manhattan will turn into a fox hunting game. It's been banned in the UK, not US. ;)
Dead on in Arkansas. Wal-Mart runs my state. Governor refused to sign a bill he said several times he would sign until Wal-Mart told him not to. He and most of the legislature jumped through their own anal cavity in order to comply pronto. http://www.arneighbors.org/?p=319
Minnesota the state where nothing is allowed, is run by progressive marxist demoncrats
+1 for the Garage Logic reference. I need one of these.
Does Express Scripts really run Missouri? I'd have to point my finger at Monsanto, and if you need any further proof of this just check out the voting records of Claire McCaskill and Roy Blount.
Me thinks Ferguson now runs Missouri.
The voted civil servants are getting paid under collusion. This is a direct violation under the Constitutional Laws.
Technically, they can be removed from their position under accepting bribes within the penile code. No one seems to remember these active laws.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201
Yes, 18 US Code 201. Bribery of Public Officials.
Bullshit. AFSCME and NEA run most states.
Senseless article.
Withdrawn
The first rule ..... is the people that run the shit never say they run the shit
AmeriSourceBergen.
Sounds like some commies got hold of Pittsburgh.
Albertsons got Idaho and some poet got South Dakota.
What's that thing in NH?
The public service unions run California., not CVX.
TN is run by CCA. Coming to a prison near you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America
Just have to say.. In the most hostile to business state in the union, its not big business, but big public employee unions running the state. Top of the list CTA. The teachers unions, seiu, ect.. are bankrupting the state and having laws written to enhance thier benefits and pay at the cost of the taxpayer and local economy. If the republicans ran the state, I would agree that chevron or any other major corporation would hold the biggest purse strings.