𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗕𝗢𝗬 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗

“I'll have my bond; speak not against my bond: I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond”. 

     The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare 

A collage of modern welshers: Hasse, Trump and Madoff

There was a time  when honorable men stood by their word as if a measurement of their very soul.  Among such men, a handshake meant far more than a notorized, signed document because their reputation was more valuable than any piece of paper.

These days, those old values mean little as the  President-Elect has repeatedly shown.

Donald J. Trump's fancy signature on a document never meant diddly-squat, as worthless as the proverbial three dollar bill.  Time and again, all over this country, Trump has stiffed the cities gracious enough to hold his political rallies, just as he stiffed over and over again the vendors who furnished the wares and services for his casinos, as he declared bankruptcy six times.  

One of Trump's local disciples, Tad Hasse, an occasional contributor to Juan Montoya's El Rrun Rrun blog, a man of some standing in the local Republican Party, has proven himself a Trumpster, not just in word, but in deed, by welshing on the $100 bet we had on the 2020 election.  

Hasse, once held up locally as a Boy Scout leader, is in clear, long-standing violation of the legendary Boy Scout Oath.

Likely, Hasse, once a candidate for the State Board of Education, will have some familiarity with basic math and will comprehend this reference from online authority Google:

"$100 in 2020 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $121.97 today, an increase of $21.97 over 4 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 5.09% per year between 2020 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 21.97%."

We'll forego the interest on the original debt, but that $100 was promised to a grandson, then still in elementary school, who's now in Early College High School studying cyber security among other things.