By the way - no one commented on something incredibly pro-Iron Hoof in the last episode?

Consider this - Fluttershy fears flying. She is barely a pegasus. She has connections to the earth. Yet, she says she never was on the ground. Despite being one of the oldest kids in the school. What does this mean?

A) Cloudsdale is obviously unable of growing any food, yet supports enormous population that mostly never touches the ground, kids, workers in its heavy industry, old pegasi, etc.

B) What services they provide? Weather, obviously. Yet, we see no one paying for weather, besides, it would be horribly inefficient with the scale of industry we see. Therefore, some kind of fee/tax paying for it's existence must exist;

C) Since only pegasi can travel to or from it, and given the scale of requirements, there is probably state food distribution, perhaps in a network of factory restaurants, centrally steered, supported by maybe a handful of private enterprises; and not only usual fare, some luxuries must make their way into it as FS knows what 'honey' is;

D) There exist some form of pony segregation, if even FS doesn't get to mingle with the rest of the populace, and besides, Ponyville & Canterlot have segregation just as hard, only slanted towards earth/unicorn ponies (say, CMC apparently have the only filly unicorn in town as member, while Canterlot is filled with them, even having special schools), despite being on the ground;

E) What else is weird? Ah, that pegasi fillies in school apparently get to play very dangerous games without oversight of the teachers; No one tries to save falling FS. Why? Are all the parents too busy working in the factories? Do they make too little money to invest in some sort of rescue service, or even a guardian for the fillies?

F) Apparently Rainbooms are some sort of special military assets, capable of crushing rocks, disrupt magic, destroy clouds and providing illumination of bombed targets, all in one