Stay at home and sign up for Husseincare. That should even things out.
Every time a tree falls in 2014, it will be a blow to this “recovering” economy. It certainly can’t be because health care costs for ObumblesCare are gouging U.S. citizens and keeping them from spending thousands of dollars in the economy.
It always absolutely amazes me that giant storms and hurricanes, even the size of Andrew, which destroy wide swathes of territory, seem to have essentially zero net effect on the economy. It is a testament to the amazing flexibility of the US economy (at least under normal conditions) that it can take such an enormous hit and shrug it off. And it relates to the ability of the insurance cos involved to hedge off much of their risk via reinsurance. My guess is that one man’s loss is another’s gain, in terms of how much replacement stuff get bought at Home Depots all over the affected territory. GDP doesn’t effectively measure the widespread heartache over losing one’s home....repeated hundreds of times. It *does* measure the people involved are bailing out their basements or piling their soggy furniture at the curb. (and in case that sounds callous, I’ve been through a flood and believe me, it can destroy your life) In the US economy, $5 billion is utterly nothing. It is a tad over one day’s borrowing for the US gov’t.
It was “unexpected”!
So true, but 4.9 b of it will be made up next week.
Typical NBC crap
FINALLY! Something the left can blame the economy on. Has NOTHING to do with leftist disaster-ridden economic policy, destroying jobs and obamacare sucking all of the discretionary income out of the wallets of working Americans...no sir!
We have four wheel drive and a Taylor outdoor woodstove (new this year). Plenty O heat and no problem with transportation. I have never been warmer than with this stove. I guess all the mass transit socialists are probably suffering. They are getting paid to stay home anyway.
No, no that was done by obama and his communist agenda to destroy America. If anything... this cold weather will stop the bleeding because his gestapo cannot deliver the graft payments to his brown shirts due to ice.
Another welcome distraction for obonzo.
Wonder how detroit is faring any hope for them? Axle rod bumping loudly on matt laugher show today trying to shut the gate.
Every year in Central Florida, just like clockwork, it gets freezing cold for three days in January. And that’s the extent of our version of winter. And every year, just like clockwork, the strawberry farmers complain that the sudden, temporary cold snap will damage their crops and force them to raise their prices. Just in time for the Strawberry Festival in February, the biggest amusement fair event of the Central Florida tourist season. See how that works?
If cold is bad for the economy, then shouldn’t we be doing all we can to hurry “global warming”? Do it for the children if nothing else /s
I never understood why so many people huddle at home during cold weather. So it's cold outside. Put on gloves. Put on a hat. Put on a sweater under your overcoat. I can understand if it's -40 degrees with -85 windchill but if it's only zero, you can dress for it and be quite comfortable.
Fedzilla burns through $5 billion in less than 12 hours ...
It's really a boon to the economy, because every dollar spent on keeping warm turns into $1.7 dollars.
It's January 8th!
Who the Hell is taking a Vacation? We Just got off one~!
The World Doesn't Stop because it snows you know.
What’s a vacation?
So the media states that Polar vortex causes global cooling AND global warming. Which is it? Or is it both?
Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made ‘Global Cooling’
By Greg Sheffield | July 24, 2006 | 09:48
“Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex”...
http://newsbusters.org/node/6546
what a crock of crap from NBC i was in Norther MN. over Chritmas and everyone knew it would be getting very cold by new years and it was cold anyway everyone was out and about, it’s always cold or bone cold this time of yr. nothing new