from every one of those federal employees. it needs them to be paid every week. federal procurement contracts are a large part of virginia's gross domestic product. it will be bad for all 50 states and for the world if the united states goes into default, but it will be very, very bad for virginia. someone has finally explained that to the previously oblivious republican governor bob mcdonald, who has rewritten his position on the debt ceiling. >> there's got to be a compromise. they've got to get this done immediately, or the uncertainty for the business community is going to be just devastating to our country. >> the biggest thing virginia has to fear now are economically illiterate republicans in washington who think exactly what virginia's governor used to think.