Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:50:25 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-24, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:35:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

On 2024-10-23 2:56 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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If you mean “large cities”, those are in fact the backbone of your
economy. The US isn’t an agrarian society any more.
 
Why should the value of someone’s vote depend on where they live?

 
If the people in those "large cities" do not receive food, what will
happen to them?

 
They won’t be able to make the machines that the farmers use to farm
their crops. There would be no electricity generation or fuel supply,
no manufacturing of farmhouses, no laying of roads for the trucks to
supply feed and fertilizer and seed and take away produce. Nobody to
pay the farmers. Nobody to educate them on how to grow their crops.
 
The whole system collapses.

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You are so fucking ignorant it's pathetic. Do you really think they
manufacture tractors in New York City, Baltimore, or LA? Harvest the
lumber needed to build houses? Drill wells for oil and gas? Mine coal?

 
I don't think he's ever done any real work in his whole life.

As usual he is talking out of his ass. When I took a break from
programming in the '90s I drove OTR and went to all of the lower 48 except
Vermont and Maine, as well as western Canada. I know where I picked up
manufactured goods or agricultural products and where I took them.

Trucking is sort of like a chess game. When you get a good paying load
going from Point A to Point B you're also looking ahead to how you're
going the get a load from Point B. Shippers aren't stupid and realize if
the loads going out are scarce they can pay less than the actual cost if
the trucking company wants to get the truck moving. For example I've
brought a lot of carpet to Denver, either from the mills in GA or imports
from the LA ports. About the only thing leaving Denver is dog food from
the Ralston Purina plant. (or people food. It sort of worried me that the
forklifts came from the same direction).

Particularly in the big eastern cities you'd bounce (run empty) several
hundred miles to get a load. Take carpet to Brooklyn and you find there is
absolutely nothing shipped out of Brooklyn. You need to get to rural PA.]