Careless charity shares blame for stolen cash

To the editor:

Like many valley residents, I happily contributed to the kettles of Salvation Army bell-ringers. To read now that the agency left more than $13,000 in cash in a locked filing cabinet over the holiday weekend boggles the mind ("Charity finds some in the taking mood," Wednesday Review-Journal).

An agency that deals with cash does not have a safe in its office? Or does not arrange for a cash pickup by a security firm?

I do not care for the off-handed assumption by Charlie Desiderio, the Salvation Army's marketing director, that the community will respond to the robbery and make up the loss.

Alan B. Van Ees

Las Vegas

Voters slapped

To the editor:

The lame-duck Congress returned to Washington and proceeded to hand the Obamacrats everything they wanted in spite of the clear message of the Nov. 2 elections. Then the president took off to his own Hawaiian Christmas to contemplate his pension and thumb his nose at the voters.

All the new, mostly inexperienced, Congress can do is deal with the damage and spend the next two years answering why more isn't done since they were voted in to change the change. The Tea Party folks, and especially the Tea Party Express, are exhausted from the euphoria of feeling they accomplished something, so it will be of no use for a while, if ever again, after seeing how little real difference they made.

And the country goes on.

KENT RISCHLING

LAS VEGAS