<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Katrina had over 80 billion in losses and did not save the US economy. Lets please not get this going again.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Dave</div><div>New Orleans<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Nov 25, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Susan Kline <<a href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:8CF999961D5A6C5-700-174FB@webmail-d160.sysops.aol.com" type="cite"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <div> </div> <div>"Reconstruction and related purchases and hiring may range from $140 billion to $240 billion and increase U.S. economic growth by 0.5 percentage point next year, assuming $50 billion in losses, according to Economic Outlook Group LLC, a Princeton, New Jersey-based forecasting firm."</div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><br> </div> </font></blockquote> <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">I wonder if their offices were under water, or without power ...</font><br> </div></blockquote></body></html>