Reply #89: Economic benefits of hunting... [View All]

[dlovato]

Here's some facts to ponder if you are going to "make a stand" against hunting...

Rassumsen <www.rasmussenreports.com > lists the following states as current "toss ups" in the presidential election in their electoral college tracking...

Colorado, Nevada and Virginia -- are pure toss-ups. So lets look at them in detail...

But first, here's the National economic contribution made by sportsmen (Anglers & Hunters)...

* If the $76 BILLION that sportsmen spend on hunting and fishing where the Gross domestic product of a country, sportsmen as a nation would rank 57 out of 181 countries. (do the dem's really want to eliminate that much gross domestic product from the US?)

* That accounts for 1.6 MILLION jobs (do the dem's really want to eliminate that many jobs?) Which accounts for $60 BILLION in salaries and wages AND 25.6 BILLION in Federal/State and Local taxes (do the dems want to eliminate that?)

OK - now just looking at the 3 "pure tossups"...

COLORADO
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• Sportsmen support more jobs in Colorado than Colorado Springs-based Allstate Insurance Co. (20,000 jobs vs. 17,286).
• Annual spending by Colorado sportsmen is two and a half times more than the combined revenues of the Colorado Rockies and Denver Broncos and Nuggets
($1.2 billion vs. $463 million).
• Annual spending by Colorado sportsmen is more than the cash receipts from dairy, greenhouse/nursery, corn and hay combined ($1.2 billion vs. $1.18 billion).
• Colorado sportsmen outnumber the population of Denver (593,000 vs. 558,000).

NEVADA
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• Sportsmen support as many jobs in Nevada as the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (5,000 jobs).
• Annual spending by Nevada sportsmen is more than the revenues of Henderson based Zappos.com, one of the fastest growing companies in the state ($417 million vs. $381 million).
• Nevada sportsmen annually spend more than the cash receipts from cattle, hay, dairy, onions and potatoes, the state’s top five agricultural commodities ($417 million vs. $406 million).
• More people hunt and fish in Nevada than get married in Las Vegas (182,000 vs. 110,000).

VIRGINIA
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• Sportsmen support more jobs in Virginia than Northrop Grumman in Newport News and Virginia Tech University combined (24,000 jobs vs. 23,000).
• Annual spending by Virginia sportsmen is more than the combined revenues of Southside Oil, Uppy's Convenience Stores, Apex Systems, and Lumber Liquidators - the state's four fastest growing companies grossing over $100 million ($1.3 billion vs. $932 million).
• Sportsmen spend more in Virginia than the combined cash receipts from broilers, cattle and dairy products - the state's top three agricultural commodities ($1.3 billion vs. $1.2 billion).
• Virginia sportsmen annually spend $175 million on outboard boats and engines to get out on the water and around the marshes for fishing and hunting.
• Virginia sportsmen could fill both Richmond International Raceway and Martinsville Speedway nearly 5 times (857,000 vs. 177,000).

Now... Do you really want to make hunting illegal? Do you want to impose ANY additional restrictions on hunting?

McCain just solidified the votes of many hunters with his VP pick - pulling hunters who are democrats, undecided, and solidified the republican hunter base. Sorry to say, but it was a brilliant move on his part. Dems can go "ani-hunting more than usual, but that will only make things worse for Obama...

- Darryl