2.) People went crazy on hearing the news, buying perishable items and soem non perishable items for emergency use such as generators and whatever. This provided a small short term stimulus that is the equivalent of the incometax return check people get and spend: honest spending by consumers but meaningless in terms of economic effect long term
So, Is there somethig we can expect to see out of all this?
YES: QE3
Why, Gosh, the easternhalf of the US just got slammed, did you see the flooding in NYC and that awful earthquake that was so out of the norm on the east coast??
Obama and the dems are going to push these two events to spend more money and raise more taxes for the needy by demanding those wiht means provide their fair share.
Awful. just awful.
“Okay, we all know Hurricane Irene was hyped to the gills.
WHY?”
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It is big bangs for the buck, or maybe big bucks for the bang.
It is just natural to over-hype natural “disasters”, even if they are not so disastrous.
Just look at Katrina. It was over-hyped, and still is to this day, only because the levy broke.
Hurricanes get far more viewers then anything else, short of a nuke going off, but far more then shots of Obozo playing golf.
Fukashima is an example of a REAL disaster.
Natural disasters are an unpreventable fact of life, and
Americans have been damn lucky to have so few.
Look at some of the volcano blowups in history, that wipe out entire civilizations.
Get back to me when Yellowstone pops its cork.
Trying to get away from the hurricane coverage by watching Sunday night football. Not so fast. Brian Williams showed all the hurricane updates from today at half-time.
One reason it was hyped it because the media Holyland of NYC was going to be hit and as we all know NYC people are more important than anybody anywhere else. Also, it was hyped because quite frankly the media is short on subjects to talk about. Congress is out of session, the president is on vacation so a hurricane especially against the east coast is sonething they will hype.
A significant portion of the media is on the east coast. First the hype, then comes the self congratulation.
Rahm Emanuel: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste ...
Politics didnt have to have anything to do with it, its just the media looking for a story. I've seen this before, and I know I'll see it again.
we both live in CT. I am unscathed, but many of my friends in Westport, Fairfield, Bethel and Bristol are not. Others have been told they won’t have power for a week.
Many homes were lost on the coast and downtown Bristol was a river today out of nowhere. People died.
Your endless need for conspiracy is so tiresome. A hurricane was headed potentially for DC, Philly, NYC, Providence, Hartford, Boston. A Lot of people live in these areas. a LOT.
btw, Brattleboro, VT was pretty much destroyed by flooding. Ask them about “hype.”
The “Ruling Class” were in its path.
Period.
That's all.
It looked like it could have impacted important people instead of southern, redneck hicks... (see also "Katrina")
Tell that to the people who will be without power for up to a week or more.
dnc-Soros-MSM used Katrina for political purposes.
From now on winds in excess of 50mph will require a massive hundred million dollar plus response.
Wonder how much carbon was wasted moving millions of folks for no reason.
Because DC and NY are full of drama queens.
To stop the slide.
The left was praying for an opportunity for Obama to save the Eastern Seaboard, but Irene didn’t really deliver.
His disapprove is now bigger than ever, and the more time rolls by with the misery index pegged, the more evident it is we won’t rehire the Affirmative Action hire at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I ain’t referring to Reggie Love either. How’s that for a name too - Reggie Love.
If that guy has a girlfriend its time for the LSM to start airing shots of Reggie and his squeeze together to quell the rumors.
Best guess: To get the economy and Obama’s numbers off the TV.
A big part of the overkill was because the bulk of the main stream media companies are headquartered in NYC and this storm was expected to affect them so personally. If something this big had happened to Arizona, there’d be barely a peep from the MSM.
Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Because Irene hit the East Coast!