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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (102306)	1/29/2009 12:33:30 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542010

If someone yanks out the table cloth, I don't think it fair to blame the porcelain for breaking. The brass napkin rings aren't necessarily more responsible than tea tea cups. They just have a different weakness. The china may survive the fire, while the napkin rings melt or burn. So in part it is the type of trauma that causes these differences more than "we" are better than "them". California and NY also have a disproportionate amount of the illegals and poor. Texas too. I'm sure with the changes in the price of crude, Alaska will be impacted. We didn't ask for these effects or sensitivities, we just got them. I wouldn't characterize California as spendthrift - we pulled more than our weight in good years with one of the highest per person outputs of any state. But not this year.