Sore Losers & Passing the Buck

 

By John Mariotti.

 

A Sore Losers Box at the Conventions

 

Both Political Conventions are coming in a few short weeks and seem to have one thing in common. Whoever is nominated, somebody won’t like it—or those people—might have once been an opponent or his/her supporters. The question is how do those people behave at the convention? Or do they come at all—or show their displeasure in the form of a silent boycott.

 

I have a suggestion for those in charge of the conventions. Create a “Sore Losers” section of seating, which will be assigned to those who lost their argument or campaign, and are now refusing to support the party’s nominee. Offer them the tickets to sit in this section and attend the convention, or alternatively have placed life-size cardboard cutouts of them in the places assigned to them.

 

Who might the occupants be? Mitt Romney and the Bushes, to be sure. Maybe Bernie Sanders, or some other Democrat? Possible some of the 17 original GOP presidential candidates, like Lindsay Graham or Carly Fiorina? At least the media, the convention attendees and all Americans would know where they stand. “If we don’t get our way, we’ll go home and refuse to play.” (And maybe we’ll take our donors with us.”)

 

Democracy only promises that everyone will get their vote, but not necessarily their way.

 

Passing the Buck to Future Generations

 

Future generations of Americans will have to pay for the profligacy of the past 10-12 years or so. The GOP Congress during George W. Bush’s presidency started the ball rolling and Bush lost his veto pen. Shame on him. Then Barack Obama came in to a recessionary economy and in truly inept rookie fashion, decided to “throw money at the problems.” He blew the top off deficit spending in his first term with deficits in excess of $1 Trillion—each year.

 

As the national debt heads upward toward $20 Trillion, someday, someone will need to pay for it. So here’s the plan. The IRS (that’s “Illegal” Revenue Service in recent years under Obama) will resume mailing out paper Tax Return filing forms to all Americans. Included with them will an invoice. Thanks to the DailySignal.com, you can see how that invoice might work out.

 

If there was a payment plan checklist attached, then each American family could choose how to pay their share of the national debt and over what time frame. Oh, is that too shocking for Americans? Maybe they should pay better attention to their government’s fiscal irresponsible spending. Right now it’s just over $40,000 per person, but next year it will be higher as the government spend about $500 Billion more than it takes in—again.

 

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