Ohio Governor John Kasich was at the Wyoming’s Capitol Building Thursday as part of a national tour promoting a federal balanced budget amendment.
Kasich spoke to a full house of Wyoming legislators, but he directed his remarks to two 11-year-old boys in the audience as a way to make a point about leaving federal debt for the next generation.
“What would you think if we all went to lunch and we spent 40 dollars and gave you the bill. Would that be very good?,” Kasich asked the boys. “Yeah, we gave you the shaft right? Well that is what we are doing [with the deficit].
A bill currently before the Wyoming legislature would approve a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to consider a balanced budget amendment. 34 states would have to sign up to have a convention, and 38 states would have to approve any changes to the constitution before it was ratified.