[lbo-talk] Re: blame the south?

[Michael Dawson]

This whole federal spending thing is rather silly, given that this is LBO.
The relevant question isn't whose tax v. direct federal spending surplus is
biggest.  It's which states benefit most from the overall structure of
federal spending.

On that one, what state could compare to California?  What would Los Angeles
be without all its corporate military contractors and the Hoover Dam to
electrify it?  What would San Diego be without the Navy?

Military spending and the construction and maintenance of automobile
highways and roads are the necessary basis for half the U.S. "private"
sector.

The South sucks even more than the rest of the country, but I don't see how
bashing it will solve this all too real problem.  The only way out of the
trap is to pursue the economic reconstruction of the whole working class.
That would teach the bigots the errors of their ways.