In article GmOCb.384252$ao4.1281670@attbi_s51, "Gary L. Drescher"
writes:

Those areas that produce more than they consume and pay more in taxes than
they
receive in federal funds voted for Bush and those that suck at the Federal
teat
voted for Gore.

Yeah right. Seattle, New York, Boston, most of New England, and the coast
of California are notoriously unproductive areas. Why, the national economy
would scarcely notice if those places just disappeared.



What economic activity those cities have is the result of their being ports
that get their cut by shipping what the rest of the nation produces. They
produce very little and exist on banking, shipping and commerce of the goods
grown and produced elsewhere.

If they disappeared tomorrow, fell off into the sea, we would build new ports
and go on. If, instead, they were cut off from the rest of of the country,
people would be starving within a week.

Don

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Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG