Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.
Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.