But poor parents wouldn't have been in those seats and a large reason we cared so much was the people in those seats were shown on TV each time a player was up to bat.
I worked security for a pro baseball stadium. Some guy and his teenage sons had front row season tickets behind home base. The boys were underage and openly drinking alcohol. We went to tell them the kids had to cut it out.
This guy (who was drunk too) throws a fit that we dared tell him what he could do. He starts shouting "do you know how much I pay for these tickets!? My sons can do whatever they want" blah blah blah.
I wave down the security head and he radios for the police to come deal with it. The man and his sons were marched out to boos from the crowd. They were ejected from the game and fined. They potentially lost their season ticket rights too, but I don't know for sure. I never saw them again though.
$175 billion in debt relief among 4.8 million borrowers. That is out of 42.2 million borrowers representing $1.6 trillion in debt. That's a good start in my book.
If we had a perfectly equal system, I would be in favor of the death penalty but we don't. That means we are executing a wildly disproportionate amount of poor black men. I can't support such a system.
The irony is that I only got that house because my parents divorced and I only got money because my dad was injured badly at work. His bad fortune was my good fortune. I would give it up in a heartbeat if it meant he didn't have to go through that pain.
I'm not going to pretend I didn't get an inheritance when my dad died. I got a little run down house in a farm town and the balance of a workers comp settlement. There's a big difference between that and people inheriting enough that they never have to work a day in their lives.
A citizens job is to vote for the best available option. They failed in their basic responsibilities.