Who to elect?

Anyone believing our nation's fiscal and moral policies to be correct should vote for their incumbent. If, however, you believe that our trillion-dollar deficits are unsustainable, that Medicare and Social Security face insolvency, that the policies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae caused the mortgage meltdown, that we cannot absorb the mass of the world's poor, etc., then voting for an incumbent who has either contributed to those problems or been late and lax in speaking against them would be foolish.

An examination of Sen. Orrin Hatch's voting record reveals arm-in-arm deficit expanding "compromises" with the late Ted Kennedy, a reluctance to endorse a border security first policy, authorship of the Dream Act (before being against it), inconsistency in fiscal policy, excusing a fellow senator accused of shaking down the South Korean government, etc.

Hatch now tells us he may seek two more six-year terms. Plato warned that "political power should not be in the hands of those enamoured of it."

Frank Gardiner

Provo