<p>I’m saying that in our state we have four interdependent economic relationships: the East/West divide in our own state and the North/South relationship between each of those regions and the state to our South and the country to our North. There are crops that need to get to port and economic drivers in several directions but votes on major projects seem to come down to an idea of not wanting to pay for something that you personally don’t use much even for people who live in areas that get more money back dollar for dollar than they put into the pot. And no . . . I’m not advocating government waste or runaway spending so don’t even go there. </p>
<p>I understand that some people resent what they considered to be a good will gimmick, but there have been enough comments of the “what if their drink is more expensive than mine” variety to cause me to extrapolate a bit. </p>