"Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch defended Barack Obama on Friday against charges that he called Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin "a pig."
In comments to the Boston Globe, Hatch said it was silly to think that Obama was calling Palin a pig when he used the oft-cited expression "lipstick on a pig" in reference to Republican John McCain's economic proposals recently.
The McCain campaign went after Obama calling the comment sexist.
"I'm sure he didn't mean it that way, the way it's being interpreted," Hatch said in an interview with the Globe "

I think volunteering and donating is great, but I don't think it is the government's role to be doing it. Especially when we cannot seem to balance our budget.

I disagree with Senator Hatch on this issue, but I agree with him that the lipstick flap is ridiculous. The same speech by Obama contained more offensive things.

If we are paying someone to "volunteer" isn't that really called a "job"?

The government should get out of the volunteer program. They are so inept at controlling expenditures that every program they touch costs double what it would in the private sector. The government has always demonstrated a complete lack of sound business practices.

If my company was billions in debt all ready, I would not be approving anything that added to that debt. Especially I would not be calling "jobs" "volunteer opportunities" and then paying people for their "service".

In a way, I had to laugh at this "feels good / sounds good" action, "Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and his friend, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, teamed up to introduce a bill seeking to spend $5 billion, to vastly expand national service programs." When 2 "team up" on a BILL, it still has to be voted on in the full House and Senate, than the President signs it, and it becomes a law, and into a "trust fund" that $5 Billion is put in, for bureaucrat's to tap into, and write checks from. HOWEVER, that money will ONLY HELP OUT those that fall into "the Federal Poverty Wage Guidelines", example, for a married-couple without kid's, because they grew up and moved out, it's NO MORE assets and cash you can own than $14,600 for both, or less, or one can't touch or get that money. Those figures needs to be raised up to $75 k, question is, when will they team up and do it for the middle class?. It's long over due folks.

Hatch, Hatch, Hatch?

Who is Hatch?

Senator from Utah.

Teaming with Kennedy?

Really.

Hatch writes music
The Hatch bill would not get Top recognition
He is a dead beat Republican from Utah