Virginia home of the confederacy

Is gonna lose some Yankee bureaucrats.

An extended U.S. government shutdown would cause increasing harm to the nation’s economy, with the Washington area -- home to about 350,000 federal workers -- bearing the brunt of the damage. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics Inc

Thus we would expect stimulating growth to raise employment in DC at the expense of outlying regions?

This was what Mark was talking about months ago, a cut back would hurt. his little group of elites in DC!  I am glad he had us all in mind.

We have an experiment. I predict that by contracting central government, we will have less budget stress on local and state governemnts.