One could use an aircraft carrier as a bargaining chip to get favorable trade agreements or alliances with coastal states. Otherwise it was probably just added as a joke to an otherwise worthy inquiry. If the dollar collapese, barter until a currency emerges. Therefore Wyoming should accumulate a silver and copper reserve as those two can easily be bartered or minted and especially shoved up the Ben Bernank's backside.
I might be movin' to Montana soon Just to raise me up a crop of Dental Floss Raisin' it up Waxen it down In a little white box I can sell uptown By myself I wouldn't Have no boss, But I'd be raisin' my lonely Dental Floss Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss ...
Classic thread title! Texas needs to dust off Rick Perry's guide to succession in case the future Wyoming forecasts comes true.