The article "Government has to make choices families, businesses don't" was written by Cindi Ross Scoppe and appeared in "The State", a South Carolina paper. It is directed towards South Carolinians, and the author is trying to give us an idea of just some of the choices that our local government is forced to make.
Citizens of South Carolina like to complain about some of the financial decisions that our state officials make but do we really understand why they make some of those decisions. The financial choices that the government has to make are very different from the choices that families and businesses make. They have to choose the response that will do the most good for the state as a whole, and not for a small handful of people the way families/businesses do. Each decision will have positive and negative effects, but all of those decisions are made with the entire state in mind.
