[Marysecretary]

What pork spending? It sure isn't for Central New York. She doesn't bring home the bacon here We're losing good jobs faster than you can say SPIT.

[defenderSD]

That's probably because central New York has too many Republicans, so she directs the pork barrel spending to the heavily democrat areas.

I'm not trying to annoy you, but just to add some economic optimism to this thread I have to say that we're gaining good jobs rapidly here in the Phoenix metro area. Google is going to be building a software development complex here. We're becoming a lower cost satellite R&D and manufacturing area for a number of Silicon Valley companies. The movement of jobs is following the movement of population from the northern US to the south and the west. If you can take the summer heat, this is a strong area economically.