From: Cliff on
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:16:52 -0700, Gunner Asch <gunnerasch(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>What makes you think the Central States would be peasant farmers?

Farmers now & kill off their customers & technology
providers.

HTH
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Cliff

From: Cliff on
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:16:52 -0700, Gunner Asch <gunnerasch(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Given that a world wide breakdown will cause the coastal areas to be
>constantly raided by pirate types, and those who would move into such an
>area, kill off or enslave everyone there and make it their own fuedal
>kingdom until a bigger forces comes in and kills everyone off and
>.......

IOW Wingers think they will be the kings.
Conservative thought in action.
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Cliff
From: Cliff on
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:16:52 -0700, Gunner Asch <gunnerasch(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Flyover country can and does provide the food for the entire nation.
>Without it..there is no time nor room for luxuries such as science,
>education and progress. Everyone will be stuck harvesting small crops
>in their own small areas and trying to survive.
>
>BLESS the central states..because they feed you cheaply, using their own
>blood, sweat and tears. And if the nation goes down in flames..which
>will get more assistance in survival...the place food comes from, or the
>place flakes come from?

Hence the mom & pop small farm is doing quite well with 20 acres
of corn & wheat plus a few pigs & chickens.
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Cliff
From: Cliff on
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:49:16 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

> Farmers can live without the latest electronics, movies and books

So they are all Amish?
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Cliff
From: Cliff on
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:40:50 -0400, "Ed Huntress" <huntres23(a)optonline.net>
wrote:

>> BLESS the central states..because they feed you cheaply, using their own
>> blood, sweat and tears.
>
>Not to mention over $20 Billion in direct farm subsidies -- roughly $1
>Billion for Iowa and Illinois, alone!

End red state welfare !!

Texas got plenty too.
While Governor Rick Perry was decrying federal funding he was taking
ithand over fist & had flocks of lobbiests begging for more all over DC.
Typical lying winger scum.
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Cliff