Avoiding Responsibility

Dear Editor:

Many of us have taken into our home family, friends, and even strangers who evacuated New Orleans. You can’t help but open your hearts and homes to these people who have lost so very much. But, it leads one to ask a question.

How many evacuees has the president taken in? How many has the president’s mother and father helped out with space in their home? How many has Cheney, Rove, Frist, DeLay, or Rumsfeld taken in? They think that we should do it, but they don’t do it. Guess it’s the same as, how many of that group have children or grand-children, as so many of us do, serving in Iraq? They are busy sending other people’s family to serve in that pre-emptive, phony reason war, and must bear the responsibility for almost 2,000 American troop deaths.

Remember, even though the president may blame Homeland Security for a slow response to Katrina, it is an old business adage that you can assign authority, but you can’t assign responsibility. It’s obvious he never learned that.