Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 1, 2006 Posted November 1, 2006 1% of the global GDP?!? Are they nuts? They talk about an amount that is in the hundreds of billions like it is no big deal.
RuntheDamnBall Posted November 1, 2006 Posted November 1, 2006 JoeSixPack said: 1% of the global GDP?!? Are they nuts? They talk about an amount that is in the hundreds of billions like it is no big deal. 822029[/snapback] The costs will either come now, at what seems like an unreasonable price, or later, at a much more unreasonable price, when there are no other options.
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 1, 2006 Author Posted November 1, 2006 RuntheDamnBall said: The costs will either come now, at what seems like an unreasonable price, or later, at a much more unreasonable price, when there are no other options. 822032[/snapback] $610 billion. That's what they're talking about. Anyone want to take bets that A) it ends up being twice that or more and B) the American taxpayer is going to foot the majority of that money?
Chilly Posted November 1, 2006 Posted November 1, 2006 JoeSixPack said: $610 billion. That's what they're talking about. Anyone want to take bets that A) it ends up being twice that or more and B) the American taxpayer is going to foot the majority of that money? 822053[/snapback] British economists are saying that it'll be a much, much larger proportion of the GDP if they wait to do something about it, rather then doing something about it now. The reason why they are talking about it like its "no big deal" is because its a helluva lot better then what they see as the alternative.
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