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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AU Park will be fine. It's the outer reaches of fairfax 66 country that will be torched. [/quote]

Because why, AU Park is less dependent on government jobs, because it produces its own food, or because residents have guns to defend themselves?  I'm having trouble keeping up with your conspiracy yarn.

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I didn't mean literally you dingbat. [/quote]

Not sure what you mean at all.  The area most reliant on fed spending is DC proper.  The farther out you get, the less they depend on federal jobs or contracts.  Business income is more diversified the farther out from the center of DC, so they will do better.[/quote]

Not sure how you think a global empire is run without a bureaucracy.  The further "out" you get, the more societies are propped up by Federal welfare spending in the form of ag subsidies, military largess, and actual welfare payments to the rural poor.  The curtailment of Federal spending will result in the South returning to the quasi-medieval status it held before the New Deal, with the GOP's most staunch supporters reverting back to the status of serfs.  The irony is staggering.  Certainly far greater than some right-wing retiree holding a sign saying, "Gov't Hands off My Medicare!" as they do everything in their power to eliminate the social safety net.

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, but in 21st century America, you [b]can[/b] fool a majority of the people often enough that nothing else matters.  :)[/quote]

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