The Black Plague did a lot to reduce productive populations also
14 posted on 12/06/2008 4:19:29 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
I agree and should another plague of some kind occur, we may not be as able to contain it as we are the ever widening financial problems. Some things are just not containable.