"We're seeing people that we didn't know exist"
From Time magazine:
"For the first time ever, a major U.S. city was simply taken offline, closed down. Food and water and power and phones were gone; authority was all but absent. Most of the people left to cope were least equipped: the ones whose Social Security checks were just about due, or those who made for the Greyhound station only to find it already closed, or those confined to bed or who used a wheelchair. "We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," declared Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown in a moment of hideous accidental honesty."
Memo to Brownie: Just because you don't want to see people who live in poverty, to see people that work 2 jobs and can't make it above the poverty line, doesn't mean they don't exist.
