This article is meant to show that a governmental entity does not have the same choices that families and business' have. As a family, spending can be controlled without regard as to what affect it has on local business. Local and State government on the other hand do not have the luxury of ignoring the effects of their decisions on other groups of people. I currently work for an automotive supplier and I am one of those that go day by day wondering (not worrying) if I will be let go. All my department can do is push through projects that will save the company money and hope that something or someone will change the demand for our product. I'm not sure that there is anything that the government can do, maybe this is just a cycle that the country, and the world, needs to go through to reset everything.
The autor makes many good points about the current situation, and I am not sure of any certain answer.I personally hope that something changes in the near future that will put the USA heading back in the right direction.
