Why would a rural person object to their corn being ground into corn meal rather than going for ethanol?
I mentioned the Civil War because another poster brought it up first, but CWII will not be between North and South. Regardless, choking those cities would be the key to winning.
No red-blooded American is going to choke any city. You've got deep-seated problems if you want to starve 10 million Americans at a time.
I still say though the North doesn’t grow enough to support it’s whole population.
Oh my, you are thick.
It’s nobody’s fault, no one is saying they’re lazy, or anything else, it has more to do with population dispersal, and seasonal issues. Ask anyone in Transportation, the NE US is a giant black hole. We send thousands of loads in, and you can’t get a load of anything out of there.
So no corn product ever leaves the midwest?
The rest of the US, not so much. I’ve seen a driver haul a load of food (generic) to a city, go two streets over pick up the same type of food and deliver back to the part of the country he just came from. I’ve seen stuff like that countless times. I have also read and studied transportation patterns (logistics) in this country, and they support my hypothesis, at least they did as of 2004. Il, IN, OH, and MI are Midwestern states, and don’t fit the hypothesis. The only reason I included them was for geographical reasons. The choke points would actually isolate those four states all but preventing them from helping the NE at all.Also because Chicago, and Detroit are two cities that would also need to be cut off to force FedGov to their knees. I think you are taking what I said as an attack on Northern US citizens, and I’m not. The point I was trying to make with the other poster was if that war from 1861 was fought today, it would end very differently.
Ha! They thought the same way in 1861. It's amazing to me you southerners are so prideful you can't recognize reality. You get beat in a war to end all wars, and you still think you can win.
In 1861 the NE US had the greatest concentration of wealth and goods. The South was barely able to feed itself. Not so today.
Yet all the southerners here say it was the south that was the economic engine of America, that everyone was stealing off them. BS then, BS now. Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, are still powerhouses. Once we got rid of the pro-Confederate generals and put Grant and Sherman in charge the war quickly turned. You think you can run roughshod through the north today? Here in the sticks we're just as conservative or moreso than any southern county, and you won't get any farther than a gangbanger trying their BS here rather than in their "gun-free" zones.
Ok, you know what? I’m done with this.
Either you’re purposely not reading my posts, or your so angry that you are contradicting yourself, but for whatever reason having an intellectual discussion is not possible.
I have presented the case to you based on facts from a career that lasted 20 years. I am sorry that they are facts but they are.
Just the fact that you think I want to kill 10 million people shows you are not understanding me at all.
I was presenting hypothetical situations.
In the first paragraph I stopped talking about a war with the north, and was speaking about taking down the Federal Government, and I have no plans to do that either.
Please, take a blood pressure pill and go back and re-read my last post. There’s nothing in there to make you so angry.
I got no problem with people from the north. Some of he nicest people I’ve met are from New England. A manager of an 84 Lumber let me stay at his house one weekend because there are no truckstops to speak of after you go east of PA, and north of NJ. There are a few, but they fill quickly because trucks can’t get loads out of there.
I spent a summer on an Island in the St Lawrence. Drunkest I’ve ever been was in Clayton NY.
I made a half tongue in cheek response to a poster about the civil war a week ago. It’s not worth all this.
Have a great life.