Thanks for Nothing, Texans Say

March 25, 2006 PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Sitting on a sheet of fresh plywood atop a newly rebuilt roof, Joaquin Rojas thanked the heavens for all the help he was receiving to repair his El Buen Pastor church after Hurricane Rita. The pastor was not praising the generosity of President Bush and other Washington politicians. Rather, he was expressing gratitude that good-hearted fellow Christians from Michigan traveled to Texas and volunteered to piece his broken church back together. "What's happening here is because of other churches, not because of the government," Rojas said in Spanish. "Those missionaries from Michigan, I thank the Lord for them."