The Hurricane Katrina Victims and the Bush Crime Family

Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: September 7, 2005

September 7, 2005

Barbara Bush Calls vacuees Better Off

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program "Marketplace." "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality."

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."

Mrs. Bush toured the Astrodome complex with her husband, former President George Bush, as part of an administration campaign throughout the Gulf Coast region to counter criticism of the response to the storm. Former President Bush and former President Bill Clinton are helping raise money for the rebuilding effort.

White House officials did not respond on Tuesday to calls for comment on Mrs. Bush's remarks.

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September 07, 2005

Babs: Let Them Eat Cake

By Kurt Nimmo

Let's be thankful for the frankness of Barbara Bush. The Bush crime family matriarch reveals the attitude of the ruling elite in regard to the immense human suffering in New Orleans and the Gulf states. "As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who 'were underprivileged anyway,' saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit," reports the New York Times. In other words, poor people should not complain when their families are killed, their homes are destroyed, and their lives reduced to a living hell because, in a Darwinian sense, they are "underprivileged anyway" and really have nothing to complain about.

Problem here is that Bush is a motor mouth. She simply and crudely reveals the mindset of the ruling elite. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," Mrs. Bush should have said ("If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!"), as Marie Antoinette declared during the height of a bread shortage in Paris. Bush and crew need to be locked up in the American version of the Conciergerie Prison where Antoinette awaited her fate. Unfortunately, the way things are going, Bush will escape blame for the murderously slow response to Katrina. According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted on September 4, 55 percent of respondents did not blame Bush for the negligence that will ultimately result in the death of over 10,000 people. "Americans are broadly critical of government preparedness in the Hurricane Katrina disaster -- but far fewer take George W. Bush personally to task for the problems, and public anger about the response is less widespread than some critics would suggest."

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