Jim Green (Readers' Forum, March 7) said the Democrats give empty promises and won't compromise out of tolerance and conciliation, basically. The Republicans and conservatives I know seem to think we are engaged in some kind of football game where "my side is right, so your side must be wrong."
In this elective contest, we must defend the defenseless. We must realize children and adults starve every day. There are those who are truly homeless. It is not football. Please, for those who really want to understand what is at stake, read Mosiah 4 and Matthew 25. Some 101,000 people died in 2007 because they did not have enough insurance or enough money to get medical check ups.
Let's be kind to those who have not.
K. Laurence Barlow
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Salt Lake City