Paul is a mentally sick person. Proven over and over and over.
This was his post and his demented mind found sense in it. Why? In his twisted, socialist, Keynesian-istic mind this was justice and impetus for gigantic new public works his FDR’d mind craves.
Thoughts of the people, families, bank accounts, and futures disturbed? Meh. Desperately hoping for a massive natural disaster that then might, might, in some form or fashion give another gasping breath to his tired and failed model of government spending magically producing more dollars out than in. Yes.
Compassion for people? Uh, no. Padlocked slavishness to a decimated failed theology and looking for any chance to see it a minute reprieve? Without a doubt.
To carry Krugman's insanity to its illogical conclusion, criminals and arsonists who destroy property are doing yeoman's work for the administration by creating demand for products and services where none existed before.
And what of the murderer who creates work for police, judges, prison guards, morgue workers, undertakers, grave diggers, florists, casket manufacturers and others?
As pointed out in post #4, Krugman's entire house of cards is built on his faulty first assumption - that money spent repairing a broken window or replacing a burned out home was just sitting around unused and would not have been spent had the criminal or arsonist not manufactured demand.
Post #5 sums it up nicely - he is quite insane.