How about $400,000 checks?

Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal, put some perspective on the more than $200 billion in federal money expected to be spent on Katrina recovery. “We could give every one of the 500,000 families displaced by Katrina a check for $400,000, and they could each build a beachfront home virtually anywhere in America,” he wrote.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee