welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to james howard kunstler of consular dot com james welcome back a pleasure to be with you max all right so james howard kunstler you say and i quote we're in a hot mess of his disaster you're right the public has been conditioned by frequent natural disasters to think that nobody has to eat the losses so that in effect lost doesn't exist elaborate well we seem to think that we have a magic fountain of money that is limitless and that it really doesn't come from anywhere it just sort of comes from magic elders or something and you know showing you know hundred eighty billion dollars it's no small feat if you go back cut twenty five years ago or so you know that was. almost the entire federal budget and you know now we're we're that's what the cost of one storm is so it's kind of hard to imagine how we're really going to do that without taking a hit somewhere and i imagine the hit will come in the value of our currency you know that deaths are the squishy is thing in the whole picture here yeah you know it's an interesting phenomenon as the wor