AH HA@!!! I knew you weren't directing the statement towards me, but I
always enjoy learning what I don't know. by the way, I wrote a rant (not
aimed at you, either) last night in regards to someone's response about the
news "coverage" and decided not to post it......I read it this morning, it
wasn't bad, but I could sure tell I got caught up in my emotions, again.
Now if only the ex-daughter in law would just call and sarcastically tell me
"we're alright" and hang up, I'd feel better. I don't care if they have a
house to go back to or if everything is lost as long as they're all
alright..........apparently the people who live down there have this
nonchalant attitude that "it's not as bad as you think, we'll rebuild and
everything will be fine". I got this from my son who has talked to two of
his best friends who are fine, but have sustained tremendous damage to their
homes. One is in TOTAL denial because he manages and trouble shoots Wendy's
restaurants near Slidelle and doesn't realize that Slidelle is
GONE........................it's just not there, but he thinks he'll be back
to work "in a week"...........sigh.........thanks for enlightening me
madgardener
"Vox Humana" wrote in message
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"madgardener" wrote in message
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"Vox Humana" wrote in message
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On the first day of Economics 101 you learn about the trade-off between
"guns and butter." Someone must have skipped that class.

well Vox, I didn't have Economics 101. kindly enlighten me, I might be
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but I'm willing to learn more. (not being sarcastic, either)
madgardener


The comment wasn't directed at you, but the person who decided that we
needed guns instead of butter. The "Guns and Butter" curve is based on
the
fact that there is limited productivity. You can produce guns OR butter.
When one product goes up, the other goes down unless you can increase
productivity. This illustrates the concept of "opportunity loss." In
other
words, when you decide to go to war, you experience an opportunity loss to
produce (or afford) things like infrastructure and consumer goods.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gunsandbutter.asp