[AmericaUnited]

Agree. It's hard to predict whether the loss of economic activity from normal business will be greater or less than the huge amount generated by cleanup and rebuilding.

Of course if rebuilding "helps" the economic numbers, Kerry will claim that the Hurricane was an evil plot hatched by Bush, Cheney and Haliburton, etc., etc.

[SlightOfTongue]

Kerry: "When I, John 'Flip-Floppin' Kerry become president, disasters like this will simply not happen. Trust me. I am closer to God than ever before and than any president before me."