This article, "Scoppe: Government has to make choices, familes, businesses don't" written by Cindi Ross Scoppe which appeared on TheState.com seems to be written with the intent to make it clear that "there are no easy answers here" to the current economic issues we as Americans face. The audience addressed seems to be everyone who has a stake in the economy. The crisis being faced by each individual, each local community, each state and the entire country brings savings, budgeting, and just surviving to the forefront of everyone's mind.
As the author makes clear, there are a lot of ideas out there, but which ones make the most sense? How can we be sure to make the hard choices that need to be made and to make sure that those are the "right" choices, best for as many as possible while hurting as few as possible? Who gets their budgets cut? Who loses their jobs? Who takes a pay cut or gets a raise? Maybe some of the higher up management needs to take a salary cut so that people lower on the totem pole can keep their job and continue to barely scrape by with their salary?
Let's just hope we can all cling to the edge of the cliff by our fingernails until someone can figure this mess out! Who will be that wise?!
