I hardly know where to begin on Jen Kistenmacher’s column from Wednesday. She makes the utterly asinine statement that you should vote to keep the bigger idiot out. It is this kind of childish “I wanna vote for a winner!” attitude that guarantees that we will never have sanity in government. If you don’t like the big candidates, for God’s sake VOTE THIRD PARTY!

Yes, you may end up voting for someone who does not have a great shot of winning, but this is mostly due to the fact that there are plenty of morons out there who think the only way to vote is on the two major party lines.

If everyone in the United States would give up on this idiocy and vote their conscience, third parties would provide enough resistance that in the worst case the major parties would have to really listen, instead of putting up a front of pseudo-centrism.

Further, Jen makes the all-to-often mistake of associating all the good (or bad) that occurs under an administration to that administration.

Anyone who has taken an elementary social studies class should understand that Congress is responsible for legislation and budgets.

Reagan, Bush and Clinton had the power to influence bills, but they couldn’t “make” them. They could only veto them. Balancing the budget is ultimately the Congress’s responsibility. Finally, the economy is like the weather. It will happen pretty much in spite of whatever you do.

All you can do is prepare for it and maybe help it a little along the way. Attributing this to the president is like saying that a butterfly flapping its wings in Australia caused flooding in Florida.

It was certainly a part, but only of a much larger system.

David Klipec

Junior

Computer engineering