Barbara Bush: Victims were poor, so this is working very well for them.

Jamastiene

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:23 PM
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Barbara Bush: Victims were poor, so this is working very well for them.

Barbara: 'Victims poor anyway'

Barbara Bush, the former first lady, courted controversy by pointing out that many of the people forced out of their homes by Hurricane Katrina "were underprivileged anyway". Mrs Bush, who joined her husband, George, on a tour of the Houston Astrodome, said: "And so many of the people in the arena here were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them. What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article310798.ece

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SOteric

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:25 PM
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1. The frightening part is that I'm sure Babs really believes that.

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Jamastiene

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:26 PM
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2. Are they that out of touch or what? n/t

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El Fuego

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:32 PM
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3. Un-fucking-believable. The modern day Marie Antoinette.

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