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To: sandintoes who wrote (658198)	11/5/2004 7:21:55 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In all fairness to Buddy, he apologized for the remark. Seems he took the election a bit too hard. ;)

To: sandintoes who wrote (658198)	11/6/2004 8:56:56 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Like I pointed out, Sandy... it's IS an old saw --- a falacy commonly invoked --- in economics to propose that repeated disasters would be a 'boon' to economic growth. Just because it is often normal for natural disasters (or the man-made kind like wars) to provide one-shot stimulus to economies when things are cleaned-up/re-built, it doesn't mean that repeated or continual disasters would be 'good for the economy'. Never-the-less, when people are trumpeting the latest (fairly 'good') monthly job growth numbers, yet near 1/4 of those reported jobs represent temporary hurricane-related work, I believe it's fair to point that fact out.