RELYING ON THE ARM OF MAN: Those who hold out their hope to the politicians to fix our problems are mostly ignorant of how the real world works so we in our ignorance always pick the wrong ones. It's all about personal responsibility. There was a lesson given to each of us in the US last year. That lesson was Hurricane Katrina. How did the people do during that lesson? Yes. It's that simple and that obvious. -- R. A. Hawkins, opinioneditorials.com, 8/18/06