Yes, damn, it’s mind-boggling to me to see people misjudge the scale of things. The total cost is less than 1% of USA’s GDP for a year. I’m not saying we should

Yes, damn, it’s mind-boggling to me to see people misjudge the scale of things. The total cost is less than 1% of USA’s GDP for a year. I’m not saying we should do it, or that the money’s meaningless, but we could certainly afford it if we wanted to. Never mind the human cost. New Orleans is still reeling from Katrina; countless lives were destroyed or compromised. That’s hard to count on a spreadsheet.