From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>the president's mother ... left her comfortable house in the West
Oaks section of Houston to tour the emergency facility at the
Astrodome.
>While I saw a teeming mass of displaced people standing in hourlong
lines to wash encrusted grime off their children in a tiny restroom
sink, Barbara Bush found a bunch of happy campers experiencing a step
up in their living conditions. She saw visitors "overwhelmed with the
hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know,
were underprivileged anyway, so this is working [she chuckles here]
very well for them."<
-- Margaret Carlson, today's L.A. TIMES, op-ed.
Plus, many of the dispossessed might get jobs working as domestics for folks
like Ma Bush. Good servants, as they say, are hard to find. So it's a real
win-win all around. Praise be!
Carl
