No one seems to have brought this up yet...but this particular comment very much echoes Barbara Bush's comments during the Katrina evacuation about the mega center in Houston that in thousands.
There is a certain base cluelessness that only those born rich can have. They can look on these poor unfortunates and think that this is a great result.
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." (This is clipped from the New York Times article from September 7, 2005)
It is not so much cruelty or heartlessness so much as the inability to relate because of a total lack of having experienced any sort of deprivation in their lives.
As Nick from The Great Gatsby said--the rich are not like you or me.