In response to the Justice Department sending a letter to the head of the NCAA, asking a few questions about why college football doesn’t have a generic playoff system in lieu of its highly successful Bowl Championship Series (BCS), Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) encouraged the Obama administration to “follow up” on this “particular issue,” adding, “It’s an important one, I think.”
The American public, however, presumably thinks that there are even more important issues for the federal government to be addressing, such as, for example, our $14 trillion national debt and the fact that, for every $4 that the federal government brings in this year, it is spending $7. But here are a few additional items that Hatch might want to consider before he encourages the federal government to invest any more of Americans’ tax dollars in this vein:
