Opinion Line Extra (July 15)

Bernie Sanders’ Secret Service protection has ended. At $38,000 a day, he could have ended it a month ago and saved us more than $1 million. Oh, right – it is someone else’s money that he so adores spending.

Sure, Donald Trump will make America great again if you’re a millionaire or billionaire – by changing taxes for rich, reducing the minimum wage and shutting down the EPA so we have air, water and soil like China.

With people dying, and hardworking people having trouble making ends meet from week to week, the No. 1 issue among Republicans is Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. It’s like they are trying to be the irrelevant party.

So now the Democrats are gravely and suddenly concerned about $7 million spent on the congressional Benghazi hearings, then look the other way when the subject of the $20 trillion national debt (mostly wasteful) comes up. Really?

I keep hearing rebuttal by conservatives about banning swimming pools, shovels, cars, knives, doctors and alcohol because they kill more people than guns do each year. When the weapon of choice for a school, movie, church or nightclub massacre is a swimming pool or Corvette, then we’ll talk.

President Obama did what he does best – popping off about incidents between white police officers and minority citizens before he has the facts. He is usually wrong, managing only to stir up racial animus by his comments.

Those Baton Rouge riot police look like robocops.

Concerning police brutality: Yes, the actions of a few bad apples shouldn’t taint the good work of others. But a grocer will tell you that in order to keep the good apples from spoiling, you have to get rid of the bad ones, not make excuses for them.

I hoped this election cycle would eliminate some of the embarrassingly misguided and incompetent representatives we have at the local, state and national levels. From some of the TV ads and candidates’ statements, it appears most are just another page from the same book.

I don’t know if Wichita is mostly populated by old ladies (as a contributor stated), but I have seen more four-door Buicks here than anywhere else in the country.

Hey, old folks, I’m on a “fixed income,” too. The difference is that I have to put in 40 hours a week to get it.

That’s what we need – a Pokemon game on everyone’s smartphone. People are already distracted and rude as it is, but this is too much.

This story was originally published July 15, 2016 at 12:02 AM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (July 15)."