From: Ellen K. 

Not a person.  A country.  Otherwise the country is hostage to whomever
produces the necessity in question.

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:02:10 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K.  wrote:
>
>>Well, anything really basic to a country, they should produce
>>themselves.  (Like we should produce our own energy.)
>
>You grow your own food, weave your own clothes, build your own house,
>drill for your own petroleum, and still have time to study mediciine
>so you can treat yourself? I'm impressed.
>
>What's that? Oh... you *don't* do all those things? You prefer to, or
>need to, do other things yourself -- so you pay others for them?
>
>Think about your statement above for a minute. Even for Barktopia,
>it's remarkably silly.
>
>
>Monte Davis
>http://montedavis.livejournal.com

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