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Eleanors38

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6. Cali is on the West coast. Florida rests below the deep South, like a bomb...

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 30, 2016, 02:16 PM

Oct 2016

Think lotto in the late Seventies. People made a living buying FL lotto tckets and selling them with a mark-up to points far and near -- until state governments from Mississippi to Mars said:. "I ain't giving our tax dollars to friggin' Florida." Lotto is pretty much everywhere, with casinos moored on the beach in Mississippi.

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Oh, I'm sure it's just an "isolated incident" Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #1

A lot at stake, here. As Florida goes on legalization, so goes the nation. Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #2

not really true. California is the 8th largest economy on the planet, population 38 million. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #4

Cali is on the West coast. Florida rests below the deep South, like a bomb... Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #6

I don't think so. The pharmacuetical industry values the state immensley, and if seniors determine TonyPDX Oct 2016 #5

Well, it seems you agree. Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #7

I don't regard my home state as a bellwether for the nation as a whole. TonyPDX Oct 2016 #8

Unlike most, I have little faith in the all-seeing power of economic determinism... Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #9

For the sake of those living there now, I hope your inclinations are right and mine are wrong. TonyPDX Oct 2016 #10