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Originally Posted by St. Stalin the Apathetic  Interestingly enough... those urban areas all depend on those rural areas for something close to 100% of their food, natural gas, coal etc etc etc requirements.
How long would it take 17,000,000 New Yorkers to starve if, say, 10,000 Iowan farmers stopped growing corn? How quickly would Chicagoans freeze if we stopped shipping them natural gas? How quickly would our manugfacturing sector (the world's largest manufacturing base... by far) continue to function if ND, WV and other coal producing states stopped shipping it to the enegry plants they depend on?
The population center of gravity is urban (sub-urban?) but the raw materials our nation depends on are not found in San Francisco... they're found in our rural areas. We're urban because we can afford to be. We need fewer and fewer people to actually produce those resources our urban centers depend on... don't be so blind as to fail to recognize that fact.
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We're urban because we're a services-centered economy and it's not 1830 anymore. Try running Wall Street from 1500000 homes scattered across Montana. Urban areas drive our economic growth.
That still doesn't change the fact that this is
not a rural country. Yes, they're important to getting food in my belly. However, if you are to suggest that we prop up car dealerships in rural counties since those communities provide food...feel free to expand upon that. And I really feel sorry for their farm subsides too. Aren't you a conservative? Or are you just arguing to argue?
Any increased costs will be passed on to consumers of products produced. Are Iowa farmers going to stop growing corn overnight? Is Obama creating an American food crisis?