WTF?
I simply can't believe what these folks are saying....They just want to say happy pretty words and make them so. They simply are not connected from reality by any stretch of means. And they're in power.
Hurricane Katrina is likely to have only a modest impact on the U.S. economy as long as the hit to the energy sector proves transitory, White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.
"Looking forward ... reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy," he added. "As long as we find that the energy impact is only temporary and there's not permanent damage to the infrastructure, my guess is that the effects on the overall economy will be fairly modest." - reuters
Millions of people homeless and jobless. Hundreds of thousands of business destroyed. But he only mentions the "energy" impact.