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Monday, September 5, 2005

Barbara Bush: things going 'Very Well' for poor NOLA evacuees

Accompanying ex-prez husband George H.W. Bush on la tour de hurricane relief, ~~Marie Antoinette~~ Barbara Bush today commented on the poor who'd been displaced by Katrina:

This is working very well for them. (...)Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston.
"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

By these standards, 40 acres and a mule would have been too generous. Link to Editor and Publisher story; the remarks originally aired on American Public Media's "Marketplace" program (Thanks, Pesco; Bernard Ouellette)

Reader comment: Cowicide says,

Here is an audio file. Link.

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