Hurricane Working Out Well For Poor, Barbara Bush Says

Heck, these poor people are having the time of their lives, right?

Well, that's the apparent mindset of the aristocracy. Barbara Bush, a woman born to priveledge (her father was president of the McCall Corporation and she attended the prestigious Ashley Hall boarding school in South Carolina and is a descendent of Franklin Pierce, 14th US President) this woman has no clue what it's like to be middle class, poor or black.

Here was her take on the Hurricane Katrina victims on American Public Media's "Marketplace" program:

"This is working very well for them. What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. 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."

Oh yeah, those evacuees, displaced, many diseased, with loved ones lost and dead, having lived through the horrors of the Superdome and the storm, it's working out great. As viewed from the top. Of course, Barbara Bush once famously remarked on Good Morning America about the Iraq war:

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

Uh, because your son launched the war? Maybe? You think?

Really, is it any wonder her son once remarked, "I just don't get poor people"? Growing up in a household of such wealth and stature, the answer is a resounding NO.

Once more, proof the Bushes are not protectors of the people, but patrons of the wealthy, the elite and the corporations, their kith and kin.