Comments on: A Tax-Cut Benefit Old Media Will Never Acknowledge, While New Orleans Fiddling Continues

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:47:18 +0000

#4, the real Iraq and Afghan spending number through 2007 is $602 billion (looked it up last night).

as to the rest, zzzzzzzzzzz…….

By: BizzBuzz

BizzBuzz — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:38:25 +0000

Hi Tom,

I am curious, are you counting the over $1 trillion propping up the Iraq invasion as ‘disaster spending’? I think you should include it since it is in fact (at least IMNSHO) a misguided attempt to avert the disaster known as Peak Oil by replacing our footprint in Saudia Arabia (already past peak) with another one in Iraq (not even close to peak since that country has been divided by civil war, suppressed by despotism and strangled by UN sanctions instead of pumping).

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:03:21 +0000

#2, I’ve seen it, and I’m studying the detail.

By: The Puddle Pirate

The Puddle Pirate — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:52:28 +0000

As long as we're talking about good economic news going unreported, I offer this. Blow it out your ear, Alan Greenspan.

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:56:50 +0000

IMHO, rebuilding NOLA is like putting rotten milk back in the fridge thinking “ah, maybe it’ll be better tomorrow…”