Besides, even if they stop kicking the can and really start to get something done, they usually get it wrong.

In short, it’s great to be like children. But not for politicians – who will never get it.

All right, here are media examples:

1. The top Democrat in Congress called Wednesday for a quick solution to Washington’s “fiscal cliff” in an upcoming post-election session of Congress.

At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that asking wealthier people to pay higher taxes needs to be part of any solution to the government's budget woes.

The Nevada Democrat told reporters in Washington he’s “not for kicking the can down the road” and that any solution should include higher taxes on “the richest of the rich.”

The fiscal cliff is the one-two punch of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs that could total $800 billion next year, based on Congressional Budget Office estimates.

It’s is the most immediate item confronting President Barack Obama and a divided Congress in a post-election lame duck session. Economists say it threatens to push the economy back into recession if Obama and Republicans can’t forge a deal to prevent it.

“The vast majority of the American people — rich, poor, everybody agrees — the richest of the rich have to help a little bit,” Reid said.

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