Krugman(?): If only the earthquake had done more damage, the economy would have gotten a boost

Hot Air ^ | August 22, 2011 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[RobinMasters]

Via Timothy Carney, this appears to be real.

Is it real or just a goof? Kevin Williamson isn’t sure and neither am I, but given that this is the same guy who fantasized recently about the Keynesian awesomeness of an alien invasion, it’s at least a toss-up. All day long I’ve felt relieved that the quake caused only very minor damage, but now suddenly I’m bummed that the Brooklyn Bridge didn’t fall into the river. Maybe we can get DHS or the NYPD to blow it up? That’s a few thousand jobs right there.

[RobinMasters]

Krugman: You know what this economy needs? A space alien invasion!

[tsowellfan]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Broken Window Fallacy

[Jim Robinson]

Krugman is insane.

[therut]

Someone at DU mentioned this could mean JOBS. Rachael Maddow was all over how Obama could use this for a JOBS program. Even gave him the speech he needed to give. Maybe Krugman is a user at DU. They are about that dumb.

[KarlInOhio]

Bastiat's broken window fallacy.

My broken skull corollary is that if I hit Krugman in the head with a baseball bat he will get hospital care and thus be healthier than if I hadn't hit him.

(however I would never hit Krugman in the head because it is so filled with concrete that my hands would sting for a week)

[mlocher]

Krugman and the liberals will soon come up with a plan to get rid of our nukes and revive the economy if this keeps up .....

[mlocher]

I would never hit Krugman in the head because it is so filled with concrete that my hands would sting for a week

I have a jackhammer you can borrow.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Krugman Zone

[pankot]

Occasionally have seen him when flipping channels: Ever notice his eyes? He has the stare of a madman.

[PMAS]

Yeah, it’s working wonders in Japan - the economy is absolutely booming there. / s

[Lazlo in PA]

Krugman is 100% certifiable. Let's see the Left defend this creeps wishing peoples lives and property would be destroyed to give Obummer a second term. What a piece of human debris.

[ElectronVolt]

Krugman wrote an article for the NY Times about 9/11 entitled "After the Horror" in which he said "Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack – like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression – could do some economic good."

I also hear Rush Limbaugh frequently say that WW II brought us out of the Great Depression. This is also nonsense. Destruction doesn't bring prosperity! It's not possible that creating and then destroying large amounts of wealth is good for an economy. What brought us out of the Great Depression was an end to Roosevelt's policies. He himself ended many of them and turned to business leaders when he had to build the economy for war.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He's about as lucid as Major Fambrough in Dances With Wolves.

[The Cajun]

Guess this SOB has never looked into the eyes of men, women and children, up close, who have had everything or most of everything they owned destroyed, I have.

This SOB needs a good old fashioned a$$ kicking.

You don't even joke about that.

[Noob1999]

As I’ve posted before, I just don’t understand why parents would spend $50,000 a year to send Biffy or Buffy to Princeton to be taught by the likes of asshats like Krugman or Blinder.

Mind boggling!

[therut]

Yes!!!!! I have always thought his eyes are creepy. Tiney and darting around alot. Like a scared mouse.

[LyinLibs]

(VIDEO) explains “Broken Window” fallacy:

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/eyeblast-tv-staff/2010/08/04/video-broken-window-fallacy

Somebody, please show this to Marxists + useful idiots.

[Iron Munro]

Resident Obama has released a statement pointing out that the earthquake epicenter has been determined.
It is located at the convergence of Bush’s Fault, Congress’s Fault, the Teaparty Fault, and Itsnotmy Fault.