Will Hurricane Charley Cost Bush The Election?

8/14/04 | Self

[technomage]

An interesting conversation was on Fox News this morning. Stuart Varney (sp) mentioned that for the two months after Hurricane Andrew hit Florida the National GDP actually dropped. Then, when recovery efforts really kicked in, the national economy benefited. Many feel this drop was one of the reasons Bush I lost the election.

The monetary costs of Charley will probably get close to, or exceed, the 27 billion dollar price tag of Andrew. This may cause the national economy to stall before the rebuilding efforts start in earnest and trickle into the economy. Might not be soon enough.

[y2k_free_radical]

i do fear this

[sine_nomine]

Kerry will be missed - by felons, con-men, illegals, and the normal bunch of radical Demon-rats.

[section9]

Quite right. Billions of dollars will flow into Florida, beginning this week, to finance reconstruction.

GHWB took Florida in 1992, btw.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Rome2000]

You mean the party of communists, sex perverts, baby killers, liars, thieves, and imbeciles?

Unfortunately, the trial lawyers can't sue mother nature.

[RayChuang88]

The Democrats are learning that this political grandstanding works both ways: in the waning months of this campaign Jeb Bush probably had a pile of unsigned "formal requests for Federal aid" on his desk at any given time, ready to send out on a moment's notice whenever the opportunity arose.

Given the fact that Florida within the last week had TWO hurricanes threatening the state and given the warnings by the National Weather Service, FL Governor Jeb Bush quickly had all the paperwork prepared to ask for Federal aid in no time flat. That's why FEMA, Red Cross, and other emergency services are already on the job helping people affected by hurricane Charley.